Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13106
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Matt Schulze 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.
Matt Schulze appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matt. Fast Five is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 comedy, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Kirkby, Justin Lin, Mike Judge and others, Matt Schulze 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.
Fast Five (2011) as Vince · The Fast and the Furious (2001) as Vince · Blade (1998) as Crease
Career snapshot
Ranked #13106 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1998–2018
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Fast Five
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Fast Five
Most frequent director
Tim Kirkby
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tim Kirkby
Most common genre
Action
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Blade — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
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
1990s
6.8
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. Blade.
Most productive era
2000s
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.92 films | 5.41 film |
| Action | 7.01 film | 6.83 films | 7.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.84 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.02 films | 5.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.93 films | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Horror | 7.01 film | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Blade
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Crease.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2011Fast Five
7.2 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
2018Action Point
The current state of the argument, as Killer.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Vince
Directed by Justin Lin
as Wall Street
Directed by Louis Leterrier
as Crease
Directed by Stephen Norrington
as Meeks
Directed by Bruce A. Evans
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
Vince
Fast Five (2011)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vince gives Matt Schulze a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Wall Street
The Transporter (2002)
Performance score7.0
The Transporter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wall Street is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vince
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Performance score6.9
The Fast and the Furious asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vince is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Crease
Blade (1998)
Performance score6.9
Blade asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Crease 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 Vince
Start here. Fast Five is the clearest statement of what Matt Schulze does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matt 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.
Blade (1998)
Keeps the action register of Fast Five but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Keeps the action register of Blade but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Transporter (2002)
Keeps the action register of The Fast and the Furious but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Keeps the crime register of The Transporter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stephen Norrington
Director
1 film together
Notably Blade
Robert Iscove
Director
1 film together
Notably Boys and Girls
Rob Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fast and the Furious
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Blade II
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Transporter
Asia Argento
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Bruce A. Evans
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Brooks
Mike Judge
Director
1 film together
Notably Extract
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast Five
Tim Kirkby
Director
1 film together
Notably Action Point
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast FiveRob Cohen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fast and the FuriousStephen Norrington
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BladeBruce A. Evans
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. BrooksLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TransporterGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blade IIRobert Iscove
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boys and GirlsMike Judge
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtractAsia Argento
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 Heart Is Deceitful Above All ThingsTim Kirkby
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Action PointSix 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
Fast Five
as Vince
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Boys and Girls
as Paul
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fast Five
as Vince
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blade
as Crease
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fast Five
as Vince
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. Matt Schulze 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
20 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
5 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
Fast Five
as Vince
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast Five
as Vince
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Boys and Girls
as Paul
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mr. Brooks
as Meeks
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fast Five
as Vince
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Transporter
as Wall Street
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Boys and Girls
as Paul
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Blade
as Crease
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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