Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7363
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Iko Uwais 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.
Iko Uwais appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Iko. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 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, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Patrick Hughes, Ashton Chen, Iko Uwais and others, Iko Uwais 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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Razoo Quin-Fee · The Night Comes For Us (2018) as Arian · Stuber (2019) as Oka Tedjo
Career snapshot
Ranked #7363 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Most frequent director
Patrick Hughes
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Patrick Hughes
Most common genre
Action
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.1
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. Triple Threat, Stuber, Mile 22 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 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
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Triple Threat, Stuber, Mile 22.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.91 film |
| Action | 6.75 films | 5.16 films |
| Thriller | 6.53 films | 4.96 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — |
| Crime | 6.91 film | 3.22 films |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Razoo Quin-Fee. 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
2026Wings of Dread
The current state of the argument, as Paquet.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Arian
Directed by Timo Tjahjanto
as Razoo Quin-Fee
Directed by J.J. Abrams
as Paquet
Directed by Ashton Chen
as Jaka
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
as Oka Tedjo
Directed by Michael Dowse
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
Arian
The Night Comes For Us (2018)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Arian gives Iko Uwais a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Razoo Quin-Fee
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Performance score7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Razoo Quin-Fee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paquet
Wings of Dread (2026)
Performance score6.9
Wings of Dread asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paquet is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jaka
Triple Threat (2019)
Performance score6.9
Triple Threat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jaka 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 Arian
Start here. The Night Comes For Us is the clearest statement of what Iko Uwais does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Iko 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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Keeps the action register of The Night Comes For Us but asks for a colder reading of it.
Triple Threat (2019)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars: The Force Awakens but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stuber (2019)
Keeps the action register of Triple Threat but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wings of Dread (2026)
Keeps the action register of Stuber but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Timo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Night Comes For Us
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Mile 22
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuber
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Triple Threat
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably Fistful of Vengeance
Flying Lotus
Director
1 film together
Notably Ash
Iko Uwais
Director
1 film together
Notably Timur
Ashton Chen
Director
1 film together
Notably Wings of Dread
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Raid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Force AwakensTimo Tjahjanto
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 Night Comes For UsMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StuberAshton Chen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wings of DreadRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe OriginsJesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Triple ThreatPeter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mile 22Iko Uwais
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TimurRoel Reiné
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fistful of VengeanceFlying Lotus
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AshPatrick Hughes
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 RaidSix 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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Timur
as Timur
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Night Comes For Us
as Arian
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. Iko Uwais 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
11 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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Night Comes For Us
as Arian
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Timur
as Timur
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wings of Dread
as Paquet
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Expend4bles
as Rahmat
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Timur
as Timur
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Razoo Quin-Fee
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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