Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11709
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Charlie Plummer 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.
Charlie Plummer appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charlie. Words on Bathroom Walls is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Francis Lawrence, Uberto Pasolini, Roland Emmerich and others, Charlie Plummer 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.
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) as Adam · Wildflower (2023) as Ethan · The Long Walk (2025) as Gary Barkovitch #5
Career snapshot
Ranked #11709 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Words on Bathroom Walls
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Words on Bathroom Walls
Most frequent director
Francis Lawrence
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Francis Lawrence
Most common genre
Drama
9 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
6.1
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
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Share, The Clovehitch Killer, Dark Was the Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. Share, The Clovehitch Killer, Dark Was the Night.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.15 films | 6.64 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.12 films |
| Crime | 6.52 films | 4.91 film |
| Romance | — | 7.71 film |
| Horror | — | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017All the Money in the World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as John Paul Getty III.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.7 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
2025Balloon
The current state of the argument, as Dale.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Charley
Directed by Andrew Haigh
as Dylan
Directed by Unknown
as Gary Barkovitch #5
Directed by Francis Lawrence
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
Adam
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Adam gives Charlie Plummer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ethan
Wildflower (2023)
Performance score7.7
Wildflower asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ethan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Charley
Lean on Pete (2018)
Performance score7.5
Lean on Pete asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Charley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dylan
Spontaneous (2020)
Performance score7.2
Spontaneous asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dylan 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 Adam
Start here. Words on Bathroom Walls is the clearest statement of what Charlie Plummer does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charlie 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.
Lean on Pete (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Words on Bathroom Walls but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spontaneous (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Lean on Pete — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wildflower (2023)
Same director as Spontaneous, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Long Walk (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Wildflower — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Money in the World
Andrew Haigh
Director
1 film together
Notably Lean on Pete
Joshua Leonard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Was the Night
Pippa Bianco
Director
1 film together
Notably Share
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Words on Bathroom Walls
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonfall
Uberto Pasolini
Director
1 film together
Notably The Return
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Long Walk
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words on Bathroom WallsFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Long WalkAndrew Haigh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lean on PeteUberto Pasolini
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReturnRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Money in the WorldRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoonfallJoshua Leonard
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark Was the NightPippa Bianco
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShareSix 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
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Long Walk
as Gary Barkovitch #5
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
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. Charlie Plummer 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
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
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Long Walk
as Gary Barkovitch #5
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Return
as Telemachus (Telemaco)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Clovehitch Killer
as Tyler
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Lean on Pete
as Charley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Moonfall
as Sonny Harper
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Adam
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Return
as Telemachus (Telemaco)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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