Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10158
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Karl Glusman 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.
Karl Glusman appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Karl. Greyhound is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 action, science fiction, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Edgar Wright, Shawn Simmons, Alex Garland and others, Karl Glusman 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.
Greyhound (2020) as Eppstein · Nocturnal Animals (2016) as Lou · The Running Man (2025) as 'Frank'
Career snapshot
Ranked #10158 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2016–2025
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Greyhound
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Greyhound
Most frequent director
Edgar Wright
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Edgar Wright
Most common genre
Thriller
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.2
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
2020s
6.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Running Man, Eenie Meanie, Pretty Thing — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Wounds, Above Suspicion, The Neon Demon.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 7.41 film | 6.57 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | 6.75 films |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 6.36 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.31 film |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 6.54 films |
| Horror | 5.32 films | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016The Neon Demon
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dean.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 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
2025Pretty Thing
The current state of the argument, as Elliot.
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 Eppstein
Directed by Aaron Schneider
as Francis
Directed by Chloe Okuno
as Dean
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
as 'Frank'
Directed by Edgar Wright
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
Eppstein
Greyhound (2020)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Eppstein gives Karl Glusman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lou
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Performance score7.2
Nocturnal Animals asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lou is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Francis
Watcher (2022)
Performance score7.0
Watcher asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Francis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dean
The Neon Demon (2016)
Performance score7.0
The Neon Demon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dean 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 Eppstein
Start here. Greyhound is the clearest statement of what Karl Glusman does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Karl 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.
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Greyhound but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Neon Demon (2016)
Keeps the thriller register of Nocturnal Animals but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watcher (2022)
Keeps the horror register of The Neon Demon but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Running Man (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of Watcher but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Ford
Director
1 film together
Notably Nocturnal Animals
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Neon Demon
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably Above Suspicion
Aaron Schneider
Director
1 film together
Notably Greyhound
Chloe Okuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Watcher
Nick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together
Notably God Is a Bullet
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Civil War
Shawn Simmons
Director
1 film together
Notably Eenie Meanie
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Running Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Schneider
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GreyhoundTom Ford
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nocturnal AnimalsEdgar 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 ManAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Civil WarChloe Okuno
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WatcherNicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Neon DemonShawn Simmons
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eenie MeanieNick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
God Is a BulletPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Above SuspicionSix 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
Nocturnal Animals
as Lou
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Please Baby Please
as Teddy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Nocturnal Animals
as Lou
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Civil War
as Spotter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Greyhound
as Eppstein
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. Karl Glusman 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Reptile
as Sam Gifford
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Reptile
as Sam Gifford
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Please Baby Please
as Teddy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Reptile
as Sam Gifford
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Greyhound
as Eppstein
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Running Man
as 'Frank'
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Eenie Meanie
as John
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Running Man
as 'Frank'
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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