Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2587
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Finn Wittrock 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.
Finn Wittrock appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Finn. La La Land is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 romance, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mark Waters, Hamish Linklater, Ava DuVernay and others, Finn Wittrock 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.
La La Land (2016) as Greg · The Big Short (2015) as Jamie Shipley · The Normal Heart (2014) as Albert
Career snapshot
Ranked #2587 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
La La Land
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
La La Land
Most frequent director
Mark Waters
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mark Waters
Most common genre
Drama
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.2
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Judy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Semper Fi — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Judy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Semper Fi.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 6.813 films | 5.58 films |
| Action | 6.12 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 6.33 films |
| Comedy | 7.24 films | 4.23 films |
| Crime | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | 7.04 films | 3.32 films |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Twelve
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Warren.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016La La Land
8.1 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
2026Westhampton
The current state of the argument, as Tom Bell.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Greg
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Francis 'Mac' McNamara
Directed by Angelina Jolie
as Bart
Directed by Stephen Basilone
as Jamie Shipley
Directed by Adam McKay
as Albert
Directed by Ryan Murphy
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
Greg
La La Land (2016)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Greg gives Finn Wittrock a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Francis 'Mac' McNamara
Unbroken (2014)
Performance score7.5
Unbroken asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Francis 'Mac' McNamara is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bart
Long Weekend (2021)
Performance score7.3
Long Weekend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bart is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jamie Shipley
The Big Short (2015)
Performance score7.3
The Big Short asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jamie Shipley 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 Greg
Start here. La La Land is the clearest statement of what Finn Wittrock does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Finn 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.
Unbroken (2014)
Keeps the drama register of La La Land but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Normal Heart (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Unbroken but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Big Short (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Normal Heart but asks for a colder reading of it.
Long Weekend (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The Big Short but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Twelve
Angelina Jolie
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbroken
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Noah
Akiva Goldsman
Director
1 film together
Notably Winter's Tale
Ryan Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Normal Heart
Angelo Pizzo
Director
1 film together
Notably My All American
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Short
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably La La Land
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Barry Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably If Beale Street Could Talk
Jeff Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Plus One
Rupert Goold
Director
1 film together
Notably Judy
Stephen Basilone
Director
1 film together
Notably Long Weekend
Mike Barker
Director
1 film together
Notably Luckiest Girl Alive
Adrian Lyne
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Water
Sean Buckelew
Director
1 film together
Notably Drone
Ava DuVernay
Director
1 film together
Notably Origin
Hamish Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Downtown Owl
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Hershey
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La La LandAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big ShortRyan Murphy
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Normal HeartAngelina Jolie
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnbrokenBarry Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
If Beale Street Could TalkRupert Goold
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JudyJeff Chan
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plus OneAngelo Pizzo
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My All AmericanStephen Basilone
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Long WeekendMike Barker
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Luckiest Girl AliveDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Futile and Stupid GestureAkiva Goldsman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winter's TaleAva DuVernay
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OriginAdrian Lyne
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep WaterHamish Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Downtown OwlSean Buckelew
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DroneJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwelveDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NoahMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HersheySix 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
La La Land
as Greg
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
La La Land
as Greg
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
La La Land
as Greg
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
as Tim Matheson
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
La La Land
as Greg
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. Finn Wittrock 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
21 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
La La Land
as Greg
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Don't Move
as Richard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hershey
as Milton Hershey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Luckiest Girl Alive
as Luke Harrison
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
La La Land
as Greg
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Semper Fi
as Jaeger
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
La La Land
as Greg
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Drone
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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