Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1002
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gary Weeks 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.
Gary Weeks appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gary. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Greg Berlanti, David Henrie, Eric Appel and others, Gary Weeks 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.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as Agent Foster · Five Feet Apart (2019) as Tom Grant · Hidden Figures (2016) as Reporter at Press Conference
Career snapshot
Ranked #1002 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2000–2024
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Five Feet Apart
Most frequent director
Jon Watts
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jon Watts
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.6
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Kid — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
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. The Kid.
Most productive era
2010s
18 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 | — | 7.27 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.77 films | 7.23 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.25 films | 4.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.66 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | 6.54 films | 3.51 film |
| Romance | — | 7.42 films | 6.81 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000The Kid
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Russ' Son (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
2024Monster Summer
The current state of the argument, as Chief Hartley.
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 Agent Foster
Directed by Jon Watts
as Tom Grant
Directed by Justin Baldoni
as Reporter at Press Conference
Directed by Theodore Melfi
as Agent Foster
Directed by Jon Watts
as News Reporter #1
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
Agent Foster
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Agent Foster gives Gary Weeks a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tom Grant
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Performance score7.9
Five Feet Apart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tom Grant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reporter at Press Conference
Hidden Figures (2016)
Performance score7.9
Hidden Figures asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reporter at Press Conference is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Agent Foster
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agent Foster 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 Agent Foster
Start here. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the clearest statement of what Gary Weeks does — accessible, 148 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gary 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.
Hidden Figures (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: No Way Home — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Hidden Figures — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Five Feet Apart (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Homecoming — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Five Feet Apart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Watts
Director
2 films together
Notably Spider-Man: No Way Home
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spectacular Now
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Identity Thief
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Devil's Knot
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Ride Along
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Self/less
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Allegiant
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Sully
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nice Guys
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hidden Figures
Benny Boom
Director
1 film together
Notably All Eyez on Me
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fate of the Furious
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Rampage
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably Five Feet Apart
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Hart
David Henrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Summer
Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together
Notably Fly Me to the Moon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Watts
Director
2 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spider-Man: No Way HomeJustin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Five Feet ApartTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hidden FiguresClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SullyShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nice GuysF. Gary Gray
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 Fate of the FuriousGreg Berlanti
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fly Me to the MoonJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidBenny Boom
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Eyez on MeColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic WorldJames Ponsoldt
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 Spectacular NowBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RampageTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Self/lessDavid Henrie
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster SummerTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ride AlongAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Devil's KnotRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AllegiantAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesEric Appel
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die HartSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Identity ThiefSix 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
Hidden Figures
as Reporter at Press Conference
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Five Feet Apart
as Tom Grant
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Allegiant
as Perfexia Father
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
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. Gary Weeks 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
24 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
10 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
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Five Feet Apart
as Tom Grant
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Monster Summer
as Chief Hartley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Spectacular Now
as Joe
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Agent Foster
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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