Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#942
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Evan Peters 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.
Evan Peters appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Evan. Deadpool 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joachim Rønning, Chris Buck, Simon Kinberg and others, Evan Peters 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.
Deadpool 2 (2018) as Quicksilver (uncredited) · X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Peter / Quicksilver · An American Crime (2007) as Ricky Hobbs
Career snapshot
Ranked #942 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2004–2025
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Deadpool 2
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Most frequent director
David Leitch
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.5
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
2000s
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. An American Crime, Sleepover — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. An American Crime, Sleepover.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.31 film | 6.73 films | 6.21 film |
| Action | — | 6.97 films | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Crime | 7.31 film | 6.92 films | — |
| Horror | 7.31 film | 5.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Sleepover
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Russell.
Highest rated performance
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025TRON: Ares
The current state of the argument, as Julian Dillinger.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Warren Lipka
Directed by Bart Layton
as Quicksilver (uncredited)
Directed by David Leitch
as Peter / Quicksilver
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Ricky Hobbs
Directed by Tommy O'Haver
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
Warren Lipka
American Animals (2018)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Warren Lipka gives Evan Peters a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jay Bahadur
The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
Performance score7.4
The Pirates of Somalia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jay Bahadur is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Quicksilver (uncredited)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Deadpool 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Quicksilver (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter / Quicksilver
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.3
X-Men: Days of Future Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter / Quicksilver 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 Warren Lipka
Start here. American Animals is the clearest statement of what Evan Peters does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Evan 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.
An American Crime (2007)
Keeps the crime register of American Animals but asks for a colder reading of it.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
A deliberate change of key after An American Crime — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
A deliberate change of key after X-Men: Days of Future Past — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Pirates of Somalia — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Joe Nussbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleepover
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Crime
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass
Michael Jai White
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown
Scott Coffey
Director
1 film together
Notably Adult World
David Gelb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lazarus Effect
Bart Layton
Director
1 film together
Notably American Animals
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Phoenix
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Wish
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably TRON: Ares
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American CrimeMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-AssBart Layton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American AnimalsJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TRON: AresMichael Jai White
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Back Down 2: The BeatdownChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WishJoe Nussbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleepoverSimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark PhoenixScott Coffey
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adult WorldDavid Gelb
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lazarus EffectSix 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Peter / Quicksilver
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Wish
as Simon (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Peter / Quicksilver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool 2
as Quicksilver (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
American Animals
as Warren Lipka
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. Evan Peters 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
21 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 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
Deadpool 2
as Quicksilver (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
An American Crime
as Ricky Hobbs
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wish
as Simon (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wish
as Simon (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Peter / Quicksilver
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Peter / Quicksilver
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Wish
as Simon (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
TRON: Ares
as Julian Dillinger
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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