Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#950
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Greg Germann represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Greg is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Greg Germann appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Greg. Sweet November is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 documentary, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bobby Roth, Rusty Cundieff, Youssef Delara and others, Greg Germann 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.
Sweet November (2001) as Vince Holland · Foster Boy (2019) as Simon Davis · Bolt (2008) as The Agent (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #950 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1990–2024
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Sweet November
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Sweet November
Most frequent director
Bobby Roth
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Bobby Roth
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
1990s
6.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Clear and Present Danger, I.Q., Child's Play 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Clear and Present Danger, I.Q., Child's Play 2.
Most productive era
2000s
6 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 6.02 films | 6.02 films | — |
| Action | 6.71 film | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 5.81 film | 6.71 film | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.04 films | 5.72 films | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 5.93 films | — | — |
| Horror | 6.51 film | 5.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Child's Play 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mattson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Sweet November
6.9 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
2024Good Men
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Vince Holland
Directed by Unknown
as Simon Davis
Directed by Youssef Delara
as The Agent (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Petey
Directed by Phillip Noyce
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
Vince Holland
Sweet November (2001)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vince Holland gives Greg Germann a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Simon Davis
Foster Boy (2019)
Performance score6.6
Foster Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simon Davis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Agent (voice)
Bolt (2008)
Performance score6.6
Bolt asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Agent (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Petey
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Performance score6.6
Clear and Present Danger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Petey 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 Vince Holland
Start here. Sweet November is the clearest statement of what Greg Germann does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Greg 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.
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Keeps the drama register of Sweet November but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bolt (2008)
A deliberate change of key after Clear and Present Danger — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Foster Boy (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Bolt — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Men (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Foster Boy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Lafia
Director
1 film together
Notably Child's Play 2
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably Clear and Present Danger
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Down to Earth
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Nicole Holofcener
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends with Money
John Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together
Notably Quarantine
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Bolt
Etan Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Hard
Youssef Delara
Director
1 film together
Notably Foster Boy
Rusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together
Notably 57 Seconds
Bobby Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Men
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Youssef Delara
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Foster BoyByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoltPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clear and Present DangerJohn Lafia
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Child's Play 2Adam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky BobbyRusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
57 SecondsEtan Cohen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get HardJohn Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuarantineChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Down to EarthNicole Holofcener
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends with MoneyBobby Roth
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good MenSix 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
Sweet November
as Vince Holland
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sweet November
as Vince Holland
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sweet November
as Vince Holland
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I.Q.
as Bill Riley (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sweet November
as Vince Holland
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. Greg Germann 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
34 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
7 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
Foster Boy
as Simon Davis
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Foster Boy
as Simon Davis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sweet November
as Vince Holland
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Foster Boy
as Simon Davis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Clear and Present Danger
as Petey
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
57 Seconds
as Sig Thorenson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Friends with Money
as Matt
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bolt
as The Agent (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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