Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8915
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mark Addy represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Mark is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mark Addy appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mark. Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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 drama, comedy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Darcia Martin, Nick Moorcroft, Nicholas Hytner and others, Mark Addy 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.
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After (2021) as Englebert · Barney's Version (2010) as Detective O'Hearne · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) as John Piggott
Career snapshot
Ranked #8915 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
Most frequent director
Brian Helgeland
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Brian Helgeland
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.4
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mary Poppins Returns, Robin Hood, Barney's Version — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jack Frost.
Most productive era
2000s
6 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.01 film | 6.53 films | 6.72 films | 4.64 films |
| Action | — | 6.52 films | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.32 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 5.53 films | 6.82 films | 6.44 films |
| Crime | — | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 5.84 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Jack Frost
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mac MacArthur.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
7.1 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
2026Mother's Pride
The current state of the argument, as Paxman.
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 Englebert
Directed by Dan Zeff
as Roland
Directed by Brian Helgeland
as Joe Fytton
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
as Detective O'Hearne
Directed by Richard J. Lewis
as John Piggott
Directed by Anand Tucker
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
Englebert
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Englebert gives Mark Addy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Roland
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Performance score7.1
A Knight's Tale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roland is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joe Fytton
The Choral (2025)
Performance score6.9
The Choral asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joe Fytton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Detective O'Hearne
Barney's Version (2010)
Performance score6.9
Barney's Version asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Detective O'Hearne 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 Englebert
Start here. Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After is the clearest statement of what Mark Addy does — accessible, 45 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mark 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.
A Knight's Tale (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
Keeps the drama register of A Knight's Tale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barney's Version (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Choral (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Barney's Version but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian Helgeland
Director
2 films together
Notably A Knight's Tale
Troy Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Frost
Brian Levant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Down to Earth
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably Around the World in 80 Days
Anand Tucker
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Richard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together
Notably Barney's Version
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Mary Poppins Returns
Dan Zeff
Director
1 film together
Notably Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost King
Nicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Choral
Nick Moorcroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mother's Pride
Darcia Martin
Director
1 film together
Notably Indignitas
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brian Helgeland
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Knight's TaleDan Zeff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever AfterRichard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barney's VersionAnand Tucker
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983Stephen Frears
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 Lost KingRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mary Poppins ReturnsNicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ChoralRidley 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 HoodFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Around the World in 80 DaysTroy Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack FrostNick Moorcroft
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mother's PrideChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Down to EarthBrian Levant
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Flintstones in Viva Rock VegasDarcia Martin
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IndignitasSix 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
Barney's Version
as Detective O'Hearne
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Knight's Tale
as Roland
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
as Englebert
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mary Poppins Returns
as Clyde the Horse (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
as Englebert
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. Mark Addy 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
28 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
10 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
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as John Piggott
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as John Piggott
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Order
as Thomas Garrett
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
as John Piggott
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Knight's Tale
as Roland
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Robin Hood
as Friar Tuck
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Lost King
as Richard Buckley
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Barney's Version
as Detective O'Hearne
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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