Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6014
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charles Green 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 Green appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charles. Richard Jewell 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 action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Todd Haynes, Jessica Yu and others, Charles Green 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.
Richard Jewell (2019) as Dr. W. Ray Cleere · Doctor Sleep (2019) as U.S. Senator · The Founder (2016) as Loan Officer #1
Career snapshot
Ranked #6014 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Richard Jewell
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Richard Jewell
Most frequent director
Tim Story
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tim Story
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jumanji: The Next Level, Richard Jewell, Shaft — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Jumanji: The Next Level, Richard Jewell, Shaft.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 6.67 films | 6.27 films |
| Action | 6.74 films | 6.13 films |
| Thriller | 6.12 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.57 films | 6.35 films |
| Crime | 6.84 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 5.73 films |
| Horror | 6.82 films | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Journalist.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Richard Jewell
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
2025The Pickup
The current state of the argument, as Older Guard.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Dr. W. Ray Cleere
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as U.S. Senator
Directed by Mike Flanagan
as Loan Officer #1
Directed by John Lee Hancock
as Dog Walker
Directed by Shane Black
as Mayor
Directed by Blitz Bazawule
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
Dr. W. Ray Cleere
Richard Jewell (2019)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. W. Ray Cleere gives Charles Green a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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U.S. Senator
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Performance score7.1
Doctor Sleep asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. U.S. Senator is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Loan Officer #1
The Founder (2016)
Performance score7.1
The Founder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Loan Officer #1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dog Walker
The Nice Guys (2016)
Performance score7.0
The Nice Guys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dog Walker 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 Dr. W. Ray Cleere
Start here. Richard Jewell is the clearest statement of what Charles Green does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 7.4 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.
The Founder (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Richard Jewell but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Nice Guys (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Founder — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Nice Guys — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Color Purple (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Sleep — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Story
Director
2 films together
Notably Shaft
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Founder
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nice Guys
Jeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Table 19
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Darkest Minds
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Mike Flanagan
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Sleep
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably What Men Want
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Richard Jewell
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Superintelligence
Takashi Doscher
Director
1 film together
Notably Only
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Glorias
Kitao Sakurai
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Trip
Blitz Bazawule
Director
1 film together
Notably The Color Purple
Jessica Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably Quiz Lady
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably May December
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Story
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ShaftClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Richard JewellMike Flanagan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor SleepJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FounderShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nice GuysBlitz Bazawule
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Color PurpleJennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Darkest MindsJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelJessica Yu
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quiz LadyTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
May DecemberJulie Taymor
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 GloriasEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The House with a Clock in Its WallsAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Men WantPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White HouseKitao Sakurai
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TripBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperintelligenceJeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Table 19Takashi Doscher
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OnlySix 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
Richard Jewell
as Dr. W. Ray Cleere
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Founder
as Loan Officer #1
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Richard Jewell
as Dr. W. Ray Cleere
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Glorias
as Theodore H. White
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Richard Jewell
as Dr. W. Ray Cleere
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 Green 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
14 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
Doctor Sleep
as U.S. Senator
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Doctor Sleep
as U.S. Senator
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Founder
as Loan Officer #1
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
as Soda Jerk
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Darkest Minds
as Doctor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Darkest Minds
as Doctor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Founder
as Loan Officer #1
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Freaky
as Frank
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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