Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1277
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Freddie Fox 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.
Freddie Fox appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Freddie. Pride is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 war, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guy Ritchie, Paul McGuigan, Lone Scherfig and others, Freddie Fox 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.
Pride (2014) as Jeff · Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) as RAF Officer · The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) as Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fleming
Career snapshot
Ranked #1277 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2009–2024
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Pride
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Pride
Most frequent director
Guy Ritchie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Guy Ritchie
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fanny Lye Deliver'd, Black '47, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | — | 6.56 films | 7.31 film |
| Action | — | 6.22 films | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.03 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.61 film | 7.71 film | 7.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Head Boy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Pride
7.7 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
2024Gardening
The current state of the argument, as Quillan.
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.
11 of 11 films
as RAF Officer
Directed by Unknown
as Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fleming
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Thomas Ashbury
Directed by Unknown
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
Jeff
Pride (2014)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jeff gives Freddie Fox a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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RAF Officer
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Performance score7.2
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. RAF Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fleming
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Performance score6.9
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fleming is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thomas Ashbury
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Performance score6.8
Fanny Lye Deliver'd asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thomas Ashbury 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 Jeff
Start here. Pride is the clearest statement of what Freddie Fox does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Freddie 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.
Black '47 (2018)
Same director as Pride, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Same director as Black '47, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Same director as Fanny Lye Deliver'd, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together
Notably The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Riot Club
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Victor Frankenstein
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfarePaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Victor FrankensteinLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Riot ClubPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's GoldSix 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
Pride
as Jeff
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Thomas Ashbury
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pride
as Jeff
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
as Head Boy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pride
as Jeff
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. Freddie Fox 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
7 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
Pride
as Jeff
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pride
as Jeff
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Thomas Ashbury
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
as Rubio
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pride
as Jeff
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers
as King Louis
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
as RAF Officer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Black '47
as Pope
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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