Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19853
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Christopher Fulford represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Christopher is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Christopher Fulford appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Christopher. Stonehearst Asylum is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 drama, science fiction, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Danny Boyle, Werner Herzog, Brad Anderson and others, Christopher Fulford 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.
Stonehearst Asylum (2014) as Paxton · 28 Years Later (2025) as Sam · Immortal Beloved (1994) as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
Career snapshot
Ranked #19853 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1994–2027
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Stonehearst Asylum
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Immortal Beloved
Most frequent director
Danny Boyle
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Danny Boyle
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.4
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Immortal Beloved — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Immortal Beloved.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | — | 5.73 films | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.61 film | 6.91 film | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.61 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | 5.62 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film | 6.91 film | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Immortal Beloved
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.9 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
2027Ink
The current state of the argument, as Frank Nicklin.
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 Paxton
Directed by Brad Anderson
as Sam
Directed by Danny Boyle
as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
Directed by Bernard Rose
as Strombel's Co-Worker
Directed by Woody Allen
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
Paxton
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Paxton gives Christopher Fulford a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sam
28 Years Later (2025)
Performance score6.7
28 Years Later asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sam is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Performance score6.7
Immortal Beloved asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Strombel's Co-Worker
Scoop (2006)
Performance score6.6
Scoop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Strombel's Co-Worker 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 Paxton
Start here. Stonehearst Asylum is the clearest statement of what Christopher Fulford does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Christopher 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.
Immortal Beloved (1994)
A deliberate change of key after Stonehearst Asylum — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scoop (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Immortal Beloved — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
28 Years Later (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Scoop — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ink (2027)
Same director as 28 Years Later, 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.
Woody Allen
Director
2 films together
Notably Scoop
Danny Boyle
Director
2 films together
Notably 28 Years Later
Bernard Rose
Director
1 film together
Notably Immortal Beloved
Jim Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably D-Tox
Brad Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Stonehearst Asylum
Werner Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably Queen of the Desert
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Woody Allen
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ScoopDanny Boyle
Director
2 films together · 3.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
28 Years LaterBrad Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stonehearst AsylumBernard Rose
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Immortal BelovedWerner Herzog
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queen of the DesertJim Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
D-ToxSix 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
Immortal Beloved
as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Immortal Beloved
as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Immortal Beloved
as Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Ray's Friend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stonehearst Asylum
as Paxton
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. Christopher Fulford 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
33 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
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
Stonehearst Asylum
as Paxton
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Stonehearst Asylum
as Paxton
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bel Ami
as Police Commisioner
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stonehearst Asylum
as Paxton
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stonehearst Asylum
as Paxton
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Queen of the Desert
as Winston Churchill
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Ray's Friend
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
28 Years Later
as Sam
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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