Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2583
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charles Baker 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.
Charles Baker appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charles. Temple Grandin 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, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for western, documentary, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Vince Gilligan, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jean-Marc Vallée and others, Charles Baker 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.
Temple Grandin (2010) as Billy · El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) as Skinny Pete · Wild (2014) as T.J.
Career snapshot
Ranked #2583 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Temple Grandin
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Temple Grandin
Most frequent director
Vince Gilligan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Vince Gilligan
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
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
6.2
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
5.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Twelfth Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.8
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Twelfth Night.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.75 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 0.01 film | — |
| Crime | 6.62 films | — |
| Romance | 5.92 films | — |
| 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
2010Temple Grandin
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Billy. 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
2026You Can't Win
The current state of the argument, as Freemont Older.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Skinny Pete
Directed by Vince Gilligan
as Billy
Directed by Mick Jackson
as Freemont Older
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
Skinny Pete
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Skinny Pete gives Charles Baker a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Billy
Temple Grandin (2010)
Performance score7.5
Temple Grandin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Performance score7.2
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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T.J.
Wild (2014)
Performance score6.9
Wild asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. T.J. 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 Skinny Pete
Start here. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is the clearest statement of what Charles Baker does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charles 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.
Temple Grandin (2010)
Keeps the drama register of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wild (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Temple Grandin but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Wild — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
You Can't Win (2026)
Same director as The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mick Jackson
Director
1 film together
Notably Temple Grandin
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably To the Wonder
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Jean-Marc Vallée
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Neon Demon
Vince Gilligan
Director
1 film together
Notably El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mick Jackson
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Temple GrandinVince Gilligan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
El Camino: A Breaking Bad MovieJean-Marc Vallée
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WildNicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Neon DemonDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ain't Them Bodies SaintsTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To the WonderSix 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
Temple Grandin
as Billy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Temple Grandin
as Billy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Temple Grandin
as Billy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wild
as T.J.
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Skinny Pete
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. Charles Baker 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
5 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
Temple Grandin
as Billy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Skinny Pete
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
To the Wonder
as Carpenter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Skinny Pete
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Temple Grandin
as Billy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You Can't Win
as Freemont Older
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Temple Grandin
as Billy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Skinny Pete
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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