Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13957
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Glenn Ennis 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.
Glenn Ennis appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Glenn. The Revenant 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, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Davidson, Patrick Hughes, James Clayton and others, Glenn Ennis 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 Revenant (2015) as The Bear (uncredited) · Watchmen (2009) as Hooded Justice · One Mile: Chapter Two (2026) as Frank
Career snapshot
Ranked #13957 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Revenant
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Revenant
Most frequent director
Adam Davidson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Adam Davidson
Most common genre
Action
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.4
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Cold Pursuit, Braven, Warcraft — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Watchmen, Battle in Seattle, I Spy.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 6.31 film | 6.53 films | — |
| Action | 6.43 films | 6.23 films | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | — | 6.41 film |
| Crime | — | 5.91 film | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002I Spy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gundars' Posse.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015The Revenant
7.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Frank.
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.
10 of 10 films
as The Bear (uncredited)
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
as Hooded Justice
Directed by Zack Snyder
as The Man from Tacoma
Directed by Patrick Hughes
as Griz
Directed by James Clayton
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
The Bear (uncredited)
The Revenant (2015)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Bear (uncredited) gives Glenn Ennis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hooded Justice
Watchmen (2009)
Performance score7.2
Watchmen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hooded Justice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frank
One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)
Performance score6.7
One Mile: Chapter Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frank is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Man from Tacoma
The Man from Toronto (2022)
Performance score6.5
The Man from Toronto asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Man from Tacoma 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 The Bear (uncredited)
Start here. The Revenant is the clearest statement of what Glenn Ennis does — accessible, 157 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Glenn 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.
Watchmen (2009)
A deliberate change of key after The Revenant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Man from Toronto (2022)
Keeps the action register of Watchmen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bullet Proof (2022)
Keeps the action register of The Man from Toronto but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)
Keeps the action register of Bullet Proof but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably I Spy
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Watchmen
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Revenant
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Warcraft
Lin Oeding
Director
1 film together
Notably Braven
James Clayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Bullet Proof
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man from Toronto
Adam Davidson
Director
1 film together
Notably One Mile: Chapter Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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 RevenantZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WatchmenAdam Davidson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Mile: Chapter TwoPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man from TorontoDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarcraftStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleLin Oeding
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BravenJames Clayton
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bullet ProofBetty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I SpySix 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
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
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. Glenn Ennis 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
9 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
Watchmen
as Hooded Justice
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Watchmen
as Hooded Justice
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Watchmen
as Hooded Justice
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
I Spy
as Gundars' Posse
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Revenant
as The Bear (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Man from Toronto
as The Man from Tacoma
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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