Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8879
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andrew Airlie represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Andrew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andrew Airlie appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, tv movie, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Martin Wood, Pat Williams, Lee Friedlander and others, Andrew Airlie helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021) as Charles Teagarden · 50/50 (2011) as Dr. Ross · Big Eyes (2014) as Rich Man
Career snapshot
Ranked #8879 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
1993–2021
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
Most frequent director
James Foley
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With James Foley
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part, Joy for Christmas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Fear, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Look Who's Talking Now!.
Most productive era
2010s
7 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 7.01 film | 6.76 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.01 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 6.32 films | 6.22 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | — | 7.21 film | 6.11 film |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Romance | 5.41 film | — | 6.64 films | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | 6.32 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Co-Pilot.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Edward.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
17 of 17 films
as Charles Teagarden
Directed by Martin Wood
as Dr. Ross
Directed by Jonathan Levine
as Alec Shumpert
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Charles Teagarden
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Charles Teagarden gives Andrew Airlie a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Joseph
Sailing Into Love (2019)
Performance score7.1
Sailing Into Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joseph is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Ross
50/50 (2011)
Performance score7.1
50/50 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Ross is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rich Man
Big Eyes (2014)
Performance score6.9
Big Eyes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rich Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Charles Teagarden
Start here. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part is the clearest statement of what Andrew Airlie does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrew at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Shattered Glass (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
50/50 (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Shattered Glass but asks for a colder reading of it.
Big Eyes (2014)
Keeps the drama register of 50/50 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sailing Into Love (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Big Eyes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Foley
Director
3 films together
Notably Fifty Shades Freed
David R. Ellis
Director
2 films together
Notably Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Luis Mandoki
Director
1 film together
Notably Trapped
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Four
Christian Alvart
Director
1 film together
Notably Case 39
Jonathan Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably 50/50
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Company You Keep
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Eyes
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Fifty Shades of Grey
Lee Friedlander
Director
1 film together
Notably Sailing Into Love
Pat Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Joy for Christmas
Martin Wood
Director
1 film together
Notably Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Foley
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fifty Shades FreedDavid R. Ellis
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San FranciscoMartin Wood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us PartJonathan Levine
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
50/50Tim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big EyesLee Friedlander
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sailing Into LoveChristian Alvart
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Case 39Robert Redford
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Company You KeepLuis Mandoki
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrappedPat Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joy for ChristmasSam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fifty Shades of GreyTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic FourSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
50/50
as Dr. Ross
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fifty Shades Freed
as Carrick Grey
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Charles Teagarden
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Big Eyes
as Rich Man
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Charles Teagarden
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Andrew Airlie has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Charles Teagarden
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Charles Teagarden
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fifty Shades Freed
as Carrick Grey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Case 39
as Doctor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Charles Teagarden
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fantastic Four
as Compound Doctor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Tucker's Dad
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fifty Shades Freed
as Carrick Grey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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