Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1695
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ethan Suplee represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Ethan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ethan Suplee appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ethan. American History X is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 horror, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rod Blackhurst, Nick Cassavetes, Channing Tatum and others, Ethan Suplee 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.
American History X (1998) as Seth · The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Toby Welch · Remember the Titans (2000) as Louie Lastik
Career snapshot
Ranked #1695 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
American History X
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
American History X
Most frequent director
Kevin Smith
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Kevin Smith
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Dogma, American History X, Chasing Amy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.2
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. Dogma, American History X, Chasing Amy.
Most productive era
2000s
11 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 | 7.72 films | 7.16 films | 6.75 films | 6.13 films |
| Action | — | 5.82 films | 6.23 films | 6.14 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.22 films | 6.23 films | 6.04 films |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | 6.25 films | 6.53 films | 6.33 films |
| Crime | — | 6.93 films | 6.63 films | 5.93 films |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 6.92 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.43 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Mallrats
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Willam.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2026Dolly
The current state of the argument, as Tobe.
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.
30 of 30 films
as Toby Welch
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Sweeney
Directed by Jim Sheridan
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
Seth
American History X (1998)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Seth gives Ethan Suplee a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Toby Welch
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Toby Welch is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Louie Lastik
Remember the Titans (2000)
Performance score7.5
Remember the Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Louie Lastik is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Noah
Dog (2022)
Performance score7.2
Dog asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Noah 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 Seth
Start here. American History X is the clearest statement of what Ethan Suplee does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ethan 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.
Remember the Titans (2000)
Keeps the drama register of American History X but asks for a colder reading of it.
Brothers (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Remember the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Brothers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kevin Smith
Director
5 films together
Notably Clerks II
Steven Brill
Director
2 films together
Notably Walk of Shame
Nick Cassavetes
Director
2 films together
Notably John Q
Rod Blackhurst
Director
2 films together
Notably Dolly
Tony Kaye
Director
1 film together
Notably American History X
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Remember the Titans
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Evolution
Ted Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Blow
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Mountain
Terry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Art School Confidential
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fountain
Jim Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Brothers
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Unstoppable
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
Rupert Goold
Director
1 film together
Notably True Story
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Deepwater Horizon
Edward Norton
Director
1 film together
Notably Motherless Brooklyn
Craig Zobel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt
Channing Tatum
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Smith
Director
5 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Clerks IINick Cassavetes
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
John QRod Blackhurst
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
DollySteven Brill
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Walk of ShameTony Kaye
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American History XMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetBoaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remember the TitansTed Demme
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlowChanning Tatum
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DogJim Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrothersPeter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deepwater HorizonDarren Aronofsky
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 FountainAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold MountainCraig Zobel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HuntEdward Norton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Motherless BrooklynTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnstoppableRupert Goold
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True StoryTerry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Art School ConfidentialIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EvolutionSix 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
American History X
as Seth
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 Fountain
as Manny
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
American History X
as Seth
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dogma
as Norman (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
American History X
as Seth
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. Ethan Suplee 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
31 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
16 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
American History X
as Seth
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Toby Welch
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Fountain
as Manny
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Manodrome
as Dad Leo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
American History X
as Seth
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Without a Paddle
as Elwood
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Toby Welch
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dolly
as Tobe
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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