Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10957
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Aramis Knight works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Aramis Knight appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aramis. The Dark Knight Rises is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jonathan Entwistle, Dana Gonzales, Gavin Hood and others, Aramis Knight 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.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Kid with Apple · Karate Kid: Legends (2025) as Conor · Runt (2020) as Vic
Career snapshot
Ranked #10957 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Dark Knight Rises
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
The Dark Knight Rises
Most frequent director
Gavin Hood
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Gavin Hood
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.5
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
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Ender's Game, The Dark Knight Rises — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Crossing Over, Rendition.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.42 films | 8.01 film | 6.63 films |
| Action | — | 7.32 films | 6.91 film |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 8.01 film | — |
| Crime | 6.31 film | 8.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Rendition
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jeremy El-Ibrahimi.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.0 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 Conor.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Kid with Apple
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Conor
Directed by Jonathan Entwistle
as Bean
Directed by Gavin Hood
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
Kid with Apple
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kid with Apple gives Aramis Knight a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vic
Runt (2020)
Performance score7.2
Runt asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vic is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Conor
Karate Kid: Legends (2025)
Performance score6.8
Karate Kid: Legends asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Conor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bean
Ender's Game (2013)
Performance score6.6
Ender's Game asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bean 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 Kid with Apple
Start here. The Dark Knight Rises is the clearest statement of what Aramis Knight does — accessible, 165 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aramis 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.
Ender's Game (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.
Runt (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Ender's Game — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Centurion: The Dancing Stallion (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Runt but asks for a colder reading of it.
Karate Kid: Legends (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Centurion: The Dancing Stallion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gavin Hood
Director
2 films together
Notably Ender's Game
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Crossing Over
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight Rises
Dana Gonzales
Director
1 film together
Notably Centurion: The Dancing Stallion
Jonathan Entwistle
Director
1 film together
Notably Karate Kid: Legends
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gavin Hood
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ender's GameChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dark Knight RisesJonathan Entwistle
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Karate Kid: LegendsWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crossing OverDana Gonzales
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Centurion: The Dancing StallionSix 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
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Rendition
as Jeremy El-Ibrahimi
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
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. Aramis Knight 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.
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
6 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
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rendition
as Jeremy El-Ibrahimi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Karate Kid: Legends
as Conor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Dark Knight Rises
as Kid with Apple
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Centurion: The Dancing Stallion
as Danny Sanchez
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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