Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1511
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Matthew Glave represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Matthew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Matthew Glave appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matthew. Big George Foreman is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with George Tillman Jr., Reginald Hudlin, Gavin O'Connor and others, Matthew Glave 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.
Big George Foreman (2023) as Howard Cosell · Safety (2020) as Coach Bowden · Argo (2012) as Col. Charles W. Scott
Career snapshot
Ranked #1511 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Big George Foreman
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Big George Foreman
Most frequent director
George Tillman Jr.
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With George Tillman Jr.
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. First Man, All the Way, Argo — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. The Wedding Singer.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.71 film | 7.03 films | 5.44 films |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | 7.31 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.52 films | — | 5.31 film |
| Crime | — | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | — | 5.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Glenn Gulia.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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 Leader
The current state of the argument.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Howard Cosell
Directed by George Tillman Jr.
as Coach Bowden
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
as Col. Charles W. Scott
Directed by Ben Affleck
as Chuck Yeager
Directed by Damien Chazelle
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
Howard Cosell
Big George Foreman (2023)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Howard Cosell gives Matthew Glave a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Coach Bowden
Safety (2020)
Performance score7.6
Safety asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coach Bowden is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Col. Charles W. Scott
Argo (2012)
Performance score7.2
Argo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Col. Charles W. Scott is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Glenn Gulia
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Performance score7.0
The Wedding Singer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Glenn Gulia 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 Howard Cosell
Start here. Big George Foreman is the clearest statement of what Matthew Glave does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matthew 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 Wedding Singer (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Big George Foreman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Argo (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Wedding Singer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
First Man (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Argo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Safety (2020)
Keeps the drama register of First Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Singer
Stephen Herek
Director
1 film together
Notably Rock Star
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Smart
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Argo
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Way
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably First Man
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Way Back
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Safety
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Big George Foreman
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big George ForemanReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SafetyBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArgoDamien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First ManFrank Coraci
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 Wedding SingerJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the WayStephen Herek
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rock StarGavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Way BackPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SmartSix 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
Big George Foreman
as Howard Cosell
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Safety
as Coach Bowden
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Big George Foreman
as Howard Cosell
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Get Smart
as Secret Service Agent Driver
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big George Foreman
as Howard Cosell
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. Matthew Glave 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
8 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
Big George Foreman
as Howard Cosell
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Argo
as Col. Charles W. Scott
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Safety
as Coach Bowden
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Argo
as Col. Charles W. Scott
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big George Foreman
as Howard Cosell
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Get Smart
as Secret Service Agent Driver
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rock Star
as Joe Cole
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
All the Way
as Governor Sanders
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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