Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4779
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jonathan Hyde represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Jonathan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jonathan Hyde appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonathan. Titanic is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 comedy, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dhafer L'Abidine, Brady Corbet, Francisco Ruiz Velasco and others, Jonathan Hyde 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.
Titanic (1997) as Bruce Ismay · Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) as Strickler (voice) · Breathe (2017) as Dr. Entwistle
Career snapshot
Ranked #4779 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1986–2026
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Titanic
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Titanic
Most frequent director
Dhafer L'Abidine
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Dhafer L'Abidine
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Breathe, Crimson Peak — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Caravaggio.
Most productive era
1990s
5 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.11 film | 8.21 film | 6.01 film | 7.12 films | 6.53 films |
| Action | — | 7.21 film | 6.11 film | — | 7.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.61 film | 6.01 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | — | — | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 8.21 film | — | 7.12 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film | — | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Caravaggio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Baglione.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1997Titanic
8.2 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
2026The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
The current state of the argument, as Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice).
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.
15 of 15 films
as Bruce Ismay
Directed by James Cameron
as Strickler (voice)
Directed by Francisco Ruiz Velasco
as Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Directed by Joe Johnston
as Dr. Entwistle
Directed by Andy Serkis
as Allen Chamberlain
Directed by Stephen Sommers
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
Bruce Ismay
Titanic (1997)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bruce Ismay gives Jonathan Hyde a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Strickler (voice)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Performance score7.4
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Strickler (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Jumanji (1995)
Performance score7.4
Jumanji asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Van Pelt / Sam Parrish is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Entwistle
Breathe (2017)
Performance score7.2
Breathe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Entwistle 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 Bruce Ismay
Start here. Titanic is the clearest statement of what Jonathan Hyde does — accessible, 194 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jonathan 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.
Jumanji (1995)
A deliberate change of key after Titanic — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Mummy (1999)
Keeps the fantasy register of Jumanji but asks for a colder reading of it.
Breathe (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Mummy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Breathe — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji
James Cameron
Director
1 film together
Notably Titanic
Luis Llosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Anaconda
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mummy
Peter Hewitt
Director
1 film together
Notably Princess of Thieves
John Boorman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tailor of Panama
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Crimson Peak
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably Breathe
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Brady Corbet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brutalist
Dhafer L'Abidine
Director
1 film together
Notably Sophia
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Cameron
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TitanicFrancisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansAndy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BreatheJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JumanjiStephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MummyBrady Corbet
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BrutalistGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crimson PeakPeter Hewitt
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Princess of ThievesDonald Petrie
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ri¢hie Ri¢hJohn Boorman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tailor of PanamaLuis Llosa
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnacondaDhafer L'Abidine
Director
1 film together · 1.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SophiaSix 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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Breathe
as Dr. Entwistle
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
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. Jonathan Hyde 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
40 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Titanic
as Bruce Ismay
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Breathe
as Dr. Entwistle
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Crimson Peak
as Ogilvie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Strickler (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Anaconda
as Warren Westridge
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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