Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2164
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mark Moses represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 38 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 Moses appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mark. Platoon is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, history, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sean McNamara, Alex Appel, Jay Roach and others, Mark Moses 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.
Platoon (1986) as Lieutenant Wolfe · Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) as American Officer · Red Dragon (2002) as Father in Video
Career snapshot
Ranked #2164 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
1986–2024
Career length
38 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Platoon
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Platoon
Most frequent director
Oliver Stone
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Oliver Stone
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 7.32 films | 6.73 films | 6.53 films | 6.34 films | 5.53 films |
| Action | 7.71 film | 6.41 film | 6.82 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.11 film | 5.71 film | 4.91 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.93 films | 6.61 film | 5.11 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.43 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.61 film | 5.11 film |
| Horror | — | — | 7.11 film | — | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1986Platoon
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lieutenant Wolfe. 7.7 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
2024Reagan
The current state of the argument, as William "Judge" Clark.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Lieutenant Wolfe
Directed by Oliver Stone
as American Officer
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Father in Video
Directed by Brett Ratner
as Jac Holzman
Directed by Oliver Stone
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
Lieutenant Wolfe
Platoon (1986)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lieutenant Wolfe gives Mark Moses a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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American Officer
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Performance score7.3
Letters from Iwo Jima asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. American Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Father in Video
Red Dragon (2002)
Performance score7.0
Red Dragon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father in Video is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jac Holzman
The Doors (1991)
Performance score6.9
The Doors asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jac Holzman 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 Lieutenant Wolfe
Start here. Platoon is the clearest statement of what Mark Moses does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.7 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.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Same director as Platoon, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Doors (1991)
Same director as Born on the Fourth of July, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Red Dragon (2002)
A deliberate change of key after The Doors — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Red Dragon — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Oliver Stone
Director
3 films together
Notably Platoon
Brett Ratner
Director
2 films together
Notably Red Dragon
Ronald F. Maxwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Gettysburg
Mimi Leder
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Impact
John Whitesell
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Momma's House 2
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Letters from Iwo Jima
Lorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together
Notably Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Paranoia
Ondi Timoner
Director
1 film together
Notably Mapplethorpe
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Alex Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Modern Persuasion
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Reagan
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oliver Stone
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
PlatoonBrett Ratner
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
Red DragonClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Letters from Iwo JimaJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellRonald F. Maxwell
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GettysburgLorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldSean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ReaganMimi Leder
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep ImpactOndi Timoner
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MapplethorpeJohn Whitesell
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Momma's House 2Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParanoiaAlex Appel
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Modern PersuasionSix 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
Platoon
as Lieutenant Wolfe
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 Doors
as Jac Holzman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Platoon
as Lieutenant Wolfe
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Red Dragon
as Father in Video
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Platoon
as Lieutenant Wolfe
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 Moses 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
38 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
15 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
Platoon
as Lieutenant Wolfe
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Red Dragon
as Father in Video
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Doors
as Jac Holzman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Follow Her
as Richard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Platoon
as Lieutenant Wolfe
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
After the Sunset
as Lakers FBI Agent
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
After the Sunset
as Lakers FBI Agent
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deep Impact
as Tim Urbanski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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