Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#619
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Elyes Gabel 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.
Elyes Gabel appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Elyes. The Odyssey is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for adventure, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, Sam Liu, Bharat Nalluri and others, Elyes Gabel 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.
The Odyssey (2026) as Elatus · Interstellar (2014) as Administrator · The Odyssey (2026) as Elatus
Career snapshot
Ranked #619 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
The Odyssey
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Interstellar
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Action
5 titles
Average runtime
2h 9m
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
7.0
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
2020s
8.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Odyssey, The Odyssey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.2
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. Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Spooks: The Greater Good, Interstellar.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 7.72 films | 8.91 film |
| Action | 6.44 films | 8.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | — |
| Crime | 6.32 films | — |
| Horror | 7.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013World War Z
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Andrew Fassbach.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Odyssey
8.9 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
2026The Odyssey
The current state of the argument, as Elatus.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Elatus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Administrator
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Elatus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Thomas Kallor / Star Boy (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Andrew Fassbach
Directed by Marc Forster
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 11 of 11 titles · 11 total credits · active 2008–2026
The Odyssey
2026 · Elatus
Suspicion
2022 · TV · Sean Tilson
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five
2019 · Thomas Kallor / Star Boy (voice)
Spooks: The Greater Good
2015 · Adem Qasim
Interstellar
2014 · Administrator
A Most Violent Year
2014 · Julian
Scorpion
2014 · TV · Walter O'Brien
World War Z
2013 · Andrew Fassbach
Welcome to the Punch
2013 · Ruan Sternwood
Body of Proof
2011 · TV · Det. Adam Lucas
Dead Set
2008 · TV · Danny
The defining work
#1
Elatus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Elatus gives Elyes Gabel a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Administrator
Interstellar (2014)
Performance score8.4
Interstellar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Administrator is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elatus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score7.8
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elatus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thomas Kallor / Star Boy (voice)
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
Performance score7.4
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thomas Kallor / Star Boy (voice) 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 Elatus
Start here. The Odyssey is the clearest statement of what Elyes Gabel does — accessible, 165 minutes, and rated 8.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Elyes 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.
World War Z (2013)
A deliberate change of key after The Odyssey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Interstellar (2014)
Keeps the science fiction register of World War Z but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of Interstellar but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Odyssey (2026)
Keeps the action register of Justice League vs. the Fatal Five but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together
Notably The Odyssey
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to the Punch
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably World War Z
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together
Notably A Most Violent Year
Bharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together
Notably Spooks: The Greater Good
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League vs. the Fatal Five
Anne Hathaway
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Elliot Page
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Jamie Harris
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Tom Holland
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Robert Pattinson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Himesh Patel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
John Leguizamo
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Charlize Theron
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Travis Scott
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Corey Hawkins
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Jarreth J. Merz
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The OdysseyMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
World War ZSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League vs. the Fatal FiveJ.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Most Violent YearBharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spooks: The Greater GoodEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to the PunchSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Elyes Gabel
Where this journey starts
Director
Christopher Nolan
3 collaborations, averaging 8.6
Film
The Odyssey
Their highest-rated film together (2026)
Performer
Matt Damon
Shares the frame in The Odyssey
Film
Interstellar
Where Matt goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Michael Caine
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Odyssey
as Elatus
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 Odyssey
as Elatus
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Odyssey
as Elatus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Interstellar
as Administrator
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Odyssey
as Elatus
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. Elyes Gabel has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #563 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.9 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Screen presence | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Elatus — The Odyssey | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | The Odyssey | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Anne Hathaway · Matt Damon
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in action, 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
The Odyssey
as Elatus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Odyssey
as Elatus
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Odyssey
as Elatus
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Odyssey
as Elatus
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Odyssey
as Elatus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Elatus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Odyssey
as Elatus
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Odyssey
as Elatus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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