Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4809
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ben Miles works on versatility 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.
Ben Miles appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ben. V for Vendetta is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 horror, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bharat Nalluri, James Vanderbilt, James Strong and others, Ben Miles 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.
V for Vendetta (2006) as Dascomb · Tetris (2023) as Howard Lincoln · Nuremberg (2025) as Travis
Career snapshot
Ranked #4809 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
V for Vendetta
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
V for Vendetta
Most frequent director
Bharat Nalluri
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Bharat Nalluri
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
2000s
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, Imagine Me & You — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.3
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. Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, Imagine Me & You.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 7.61 film | 6.82 films | 6.96 films |
| Action | 7.32 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 8.11 film | 6.42 films | 6.84 films |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 7.61 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006V for Vendetta
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dascomb. 8.1 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
2026Flavia
The current state of the argument, as King George.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Howard Lincoln
Directed by Jon S. Baird
as Dascomb
Directed by James McTeigue
as Travis
Directed by James Vanderbilt
as Rob
Directed by Unknown
as Ronald Lauder
Directed by Simon Curtis
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
Howard Lincoln
Tetris (2023)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Howard Lincoln gives Ben Miles a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dascomb
V for Vendetta (2006)
Performance score7.8
V for Vendetta asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dascomb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Travis
Nuremberg (2025)
Performance score7.4
Nuremberg asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Travis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rob
Imagine Me & You (2006)
Performance score7.4
Imagine Me & You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rob 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 Howard Lincoln
Start here. Tetris is the clearest statement of what Ben Miles does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ben 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.
V for Vendetta (2006)
Keeps the thriller register of Tetris but asks for a colder reading of it.
Imagine Me & You (2006)
A deliberate change of key after V for Vendetta — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Woman in Gold (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Imagine Me & You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Nuremberg (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Woman in Gold but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together
Notably V for Vendetta
Lilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together
Notably Speed Racer
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably Woman in Gold
Ben Lewin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Catcher Was a Spy
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tetris
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Napoleon
Thomas Napper
Director
1 film together
Notably Widow Clicquot
Pierre Morel
Director
1 film together
Notably Canary Black
James Strong
Director
1 film together
Notably Words of War
James Vanderbilt
Director
1 film together
Notably Nuremberg
Bharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together
Notably Flavia
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
V for VendettaJon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TetrisJames Vanderbilt
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NurembergSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woman in GoldJames Strong
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words of WarThomas Napper
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Widow ClicquotLilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Speed RacerRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NapoleonBharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlaviaPierre Morel
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Canary BlackBen Lewin
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 Catcher Was a SpySix 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
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tetris
as Howard Lincoln
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Catcher Was a Spy
as Jerry Fredericks
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tetris
as Howard Lincoln
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. Ben Miles 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
20 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
9 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
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tetris
as Howard Lincoln
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Flavia
as King George
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Speed Racer
as Cass Jones
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Imagine Me & You
as Rob
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
V for Vendetta
as Dascomb
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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