Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1912
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Luke Evans 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.
Luke Evans appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Luke. The Disney Family Singalong is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Derrick Borte, Brad Anderson, George Huang and others, Luke Evans 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.
The Disney Family Singalong (2020) as Self - Performer · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) as Bard · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) as Bard / Girion
Career snapshot
Ranked #1912 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Disney Family Singalong
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Disney Family Singalong
Most frequent director
Tate Taylor
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tate Taylor
Most common genre
Action
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.3
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 Get Out, Worldbreaker, Weekend in Taipei — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 11 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. State Like Sleep, Ma, Angel of Mine.
Most productive era
2010s
22 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 | 6.06 films | 6.23 films |
| Action | 6.612 films | 6.43 films |
| Thriller | 6.311 films | 6.34 films |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 6.21 film |
| Crime | 6.66 films | 6.12 films |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 5.91 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Apollo.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Disney Family Singalong
8.3 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
2026The Get Out
The current state of the argument, as Joe Carver.
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.
33 of 33 films
as Self - Performer
Directed by Unknown
as Felix (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Bard
Directed by Peter Jackson
as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Gaston
Directed by Bill Condon
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
Self - Performer
The Disney Family Singalong (2020)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self - Performer gives Luke Evans a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Felix (voice)
StarDog and TurboCat (2019)
Performance score7.7
StarDog and TurboCat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Felix (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bard
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Performance score7.7
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
Performance score7.4
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) 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 Self - Performer
Start here. The Disney Family Singalong is the clearest statement of what Luke Evans does — accessible, 60 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Luke 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.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Keeps the fantasy register of The Disney Family Singalong but asks for a colder reading of it.
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Keeps the fantasy register of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies but asks for a colder reading of it.
StarDog and TurboCat (2019)
Keeps the family register of Beauty and the Beast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
Same director as StarDog and TurboCat, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Jackson
Director
2 films together
Notably The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Tate Taylor
Director
2 films together
Notably The Girl on the Train
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Clash of the Titans
Elliott Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Blitz
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Immortals
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious 6
Ben Wheatley
Director
1 film together
Notably High-Rise
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Furious 7
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fate of the Furious
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Midway
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Murder Mystery
Meredith Danluck
Director
1 film together
Notably State Like Sleep
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Pinocchio
Dan Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Grief
George Huang
Director
1 film together
Notably Weekend in Taipei
Brad Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Worldbreaker
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Get Out
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter Jackson
Director
2 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesTate Taylor
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Girl on the TrainJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furious 7Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MidwayBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastF. Gary Gray
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 Fate of the FuriousJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious 6Luc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnaDerrick Borte
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 Get OutGeorge Huang
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weekend in TaipeiRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin HoodRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PinocchioKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Murder MysteryDan Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good GriefElliott Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlitzBrad Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WorldbreakerTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ImmortalsLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clash of the TitansPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersBen Wheatley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High-RiseMeredith Danluck
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
State Like SleepSix 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
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Bard
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Robin Hood
as Sheriff's Thug
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
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. Luke Evans 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
15 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
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Furious 7
as Owen Shaw
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Girl on the Train
as Scott Hipwell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as Bard / Girion
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Weekend in Taipei
as John Lawlor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crisis
as Dr. Bill Simons
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Bard
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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