Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2155
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lewis Tan 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.
Lewis Tan appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lewis. Mortal Kombat II is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 science fiction, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with BenDavid Grabinski, Simon McQuoid, James Nunn and others, Lewis Tan 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.
Mortal Kombat II (2026) as Cole Young · Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as Shatterstar · About Fate (2022) as Kip Prescott
Career snapshot
Ranked #2155 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Mortal Kombat II
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Mortal Kombat II
Most frequent director
Simon McQuoid
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Simon McQuoid
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.5
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Mortal Kombat II, Safe House — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Deadpool 2, Once Upon a Deadpool, Den of Thieves.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 7.04 films | 6.86 films |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.03 films |
| Comedy | 6.93 films | 7.33 films |
| Crime | 6.91 film | 6.71 film |
| Romance | — | 7.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Korean Commando (uncredited).
Career peak
2022About Fate
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026Mortal Kombat II
7.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Cole Young.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Kip Prescott
Directed by Unknown
as Cole Young
Directed by Simon McQuoid
as Cole Young
Directed by Simon McQuoid
as Shatterstar
Directed by Shawn Levy
as Shatterstar
Directed by David Leitch
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
Kip Prescott
About Fate (2022)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kip Prescott gives Lewis Tan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cole Young
Mortal Kombat II (2026)
Performance score7.7
Mortal Kombat II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cole Young is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cole Young
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Performance score7.7
Mortal Kombat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cole Young is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shatterstar
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shatterstar 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 Kip Prescott
Start here. About Fate is the clearest statement of what Lewis Tan does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lewis 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.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of About Fate but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Keeps the action register of Mortal Kombat but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mortal Kombat II (2026)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool & Wolverine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Simon McQuoid
Director
2 films together
Notably Mortal Kombat II
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hangover Part III
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Olympus Has Fallen
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably Fistful of Vengeance
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
James Nunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Wildcat
BenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Simon McQuoid
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mortal Kombat IIDavid Leitch
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineBenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mike & Nick & Nick & AliceAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Olympus Has FallenTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hangover Part IIIJames Nunn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WildcatRoel 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 VengeanceSix 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
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Shatterstar
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
About Fate
as Kip Prescott
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mortal Kombat II
as Cole Young
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Olympus Has Fallen
as Korean Commando (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
About Fate
as Kip Prescott
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. Lewis Tan 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
10 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
Mortal Kombat II
as Cole Young
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mortal Kombat II
as Cole Young
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
About Fate
as Kip Prescott
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mortal Kombat
as Cole Young
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mortal Kombat II
as Cole Young
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mortal Kombat II
as Cole Young
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
About Fate
as Kip Prescott
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Shatterstar
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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