Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1443
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lukas Haas represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 41 years in, and Lukas is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Lukas Haas appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lukas. Inception is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Damien Chazelle, Steve McQueen, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and others, Lukas Haas 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.
Inception (2010) as Nash · Inception (2010) as Nash · The Revenant (2015) as Jones
Career snapshot
Ranked #1443 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
1985–2026
Career length
41 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Inception
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.8
Inception
Most frequent director
Damien Chazelle
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Damien Chazelle
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
7.0
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
1980s
7.0 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Witness — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
4 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. First Man, Widows, The Revenant.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 7.01 film | — | 6.73 films | 6.68 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | — | — | — | 7.54 films | 6.24 films |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | — | 6.71 film | 6.95 films | 6.05 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.52 films | 6.13 films | 5.81 film | 3.62 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | 9.31 film | — |
| Crime | 7.01 film | — | 6.82 films | 6.52 films | 6.13 films |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | 6.02 films | 6.01 film | 5.31 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1985Witness
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Samuel.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2010Inception
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.3 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
The current state of the argument, as Shawn.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Nash
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Nash
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Jones
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
as George Munn
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Samuel
Directed by Peter Weir
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 29 titles · 29 total credits · active 1985–2026
The Gentleman Thief
2026 · Shawn
Spider-Noir
2026 · TV · Winston
High Rollers
2025 · Shawn
Crystal Cross
2025 · Simon
Cash Out
2024 · Shawn Goddard
Babylon
2022 · George Munn
Midnight in the Switchgrass
2021 · Peter Hillborough
The Violent Heart
2020 · Joseph
War of the Worlds
2019 · TV · Richard
The Righteous Gemstones
2019 · TV · Chuck Montgomery
First Man
2018 · Michael Collins
Widows
2018 · David
The Revenant
2015 · Jones
Transcendence
2014 · James Thomas
Jobs
2013 · Daniel Kottke
Pawn Shop Chronicles
2013 · Vernon
Lincoln
2012 · First White Soldier
Contraband
2012 · Danny Raymer
Touch
2012 · TV · Calvin Norburg
Red Riding Hood
2011 · Father August
Inception
2010 · Nash
The Brothers Bloom
2008 · Bar Patron
The Darwin Awards
2007 · Farley
Alpha Dog
2006 · Buzz Fecske
The defining work
#1
Nash
Inception (2010)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nash gives Lukas Haas a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nash
Inception (2010)
Performance score8.4
Inception asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nash is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jones
The Revenant (2015)
Performance score7.3
The Revenant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jones is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
George Munn
Babylon (2022)
Performance score7.2
Babylon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. George Munn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Nash
Start here. Inception is the clearest statement of what Lukas Haas does — accessible, 148 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lukas 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.
Witness (1985)
Keeps the thriller register of Inception but asks for a colder reading of it.
Inception (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Witness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Revenant (2015)
Keeps the adventure register of Inception but asks for a colder reading of it.
Babylon (2022)
Keeps the drama register of The Revenant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rian Johnson
Director
2 films together
Notably Brick
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Inception
Damien Chazelle
Director
2 films together
Notably Babylon
Peter Weir
Director
1 film together
Notably Witness
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Everyone Says I Love You
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Mars Attacks!
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Zoolander
Nick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together
Notably Alpha Dog
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Riding Hood
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Contraband
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Lincoln
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Pawn Shop Chronicles
Wally Pfister
Director
1 film together
Notably Transcendence
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Revenant
Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together
Notably Widows
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Ken Watanabe
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Hardy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Elliot Page
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Dileep Rao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Berenger
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Marion Cotillard
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Talulah Riley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 9.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InceptionDamien Chazelle
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BabylonRian Johnson
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BrickAlejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RevenantPeter Weir
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WitnessSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LincolnNick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alpha DogTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mars Attacks!Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WidowsWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everyone Says I Love YouBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ContrabandBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZoolanderWally Pfister
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TranscendenceCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red Riding HoodWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pawn Shop ChroniclesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2011
Inception
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Inception
as Nash
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lincoln
as First White Soldier
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inception
as Nash
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zoolander
as Lukas Haas
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inception
as Nash
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. Lukas Haas has known it for a long time.”
“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #272 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.3 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Charisma, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2010–2010 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Nash — Inception | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Inception | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Thriller Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Michael Caine · Leonardo DiCaprio · Cillian Murphy
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
41 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
14 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
Inception
as Nash
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Inception
as Nash
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Violent Heart
as Joseph
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inception
as Nash
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Inception
as Nash
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Inception
as Nash
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Brothers Bloom
as Bar Patron
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inception
as Nash
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 8 Nutevio collections
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