Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#548
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Glen Powell 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.
Glen Powell appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Glen. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 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, western, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Judd Apatow, J.J. Abrams, Aaron Horvath and others, Glen Powell 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.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Fox McCloud (voice) · Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin · Hidden Figures (2016) as John Glenn
Career snapshot
Ranked #548 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2003–2027
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Most frequent director
Richard Linklater
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Richard Linklater
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.3
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Set It Up, Sand Castle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. The Great Debaters, Fast Food Nation, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.72 films | 7.26 films | 5.64 films |
| Action | 5.11 film | 6.84 films | 5.54 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.63 films | 6.93 films |
| Comedy | 5.62 films | 6.55 films | 6.06 films |
| Crime | — | 8.01 film | 6.81 film |
| Romance | — | 6.84 films | 4.53 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Long-fingered Boy.
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
2027The Great Beyond
The current state of the argument.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Fox McCloud (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as John Glenn
Directed by Theodore Melfi
as Trader #1
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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
Fox McCloud (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fox McCloud (voice) gives Glen Powell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Performance score8.0
Top Gun: Maverick asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Glenn
Hidden Figures (2016)
Performance score7.9
Hidden Figures asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Glenn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trader #1
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score7.8
The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trader #1 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 Fox McCloud (voice)
Start here. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest statement of what Glen Powell does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Glen 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.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hidden Figures (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Hidden Figures but asks for a colder reading of it.
How to Make a Killing (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Top Gun: Maverick — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Linklater
Director
4 films together
Notably Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Denzel Washington
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Debaters
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight Rises
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck in Love
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Expendables 3
Shintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Misconduct
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Ride Along 2
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hidden Figures
Fernando Coimbra
Director
1 film together
Notably Sand Castle
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Set It Up
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
J.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together
Notably Devotion
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Top Gun: Maverick
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Anyone but You
Lee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together
Notably Twisters
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Running Man
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Beyond
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Comeback King
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Linklater
Director
4 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Apollo 10½: A Space Age ChildhoodAaron Horvath
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 Super Mario Galaxy MovieJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Top Gun: MaverickTheodore 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 FiguresChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dark Knight RisesMike Newell
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 Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie SocietyJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck in LoveDenzel Washington
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great DebatersJ.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DevotionEdgar Wright
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 Running ManClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Set It UpLee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwistersWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anyone but YouFernando Coimbra
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sand CastleTim 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 Along 2Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Expendables 3Shintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MisconductRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spy Kids 3-D: Game OverJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Comeback KingJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great BeyondSix 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
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hidden Figures
as John Glenn
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Trader #1
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Fox McCloud (voice)
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. Glen Powell 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Fox McCloud (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight Rises
as Trader #1
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Mark Reynolds
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Fox McCloud (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Expendables 3
as Thorn
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Fox McCloud (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dark Knight Rises
as Trader #1
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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