Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10370
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Matthew Kevin Anderson 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.
Matthew Kevin Anderson appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matthew. The Last Stand of Ellen Cole is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 romance, comedy, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anna Kendrick, Jessica Harmon, Stacey N. Harding and others, Matthew Kevin Anderson 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 Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024) as Deputy Floyd · The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) as Fox Sports Reporter · Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019) as Duncan Spencer
Career snapshot
Ranked #10370 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2014–2025
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
Most frequent director
Anna Kendrick
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Anna Kendrick
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.1
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
5.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. He, Love & Jane, Never Let Go — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.9
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.9
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. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Ada, Mystery 101: Playing Dead.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 5.45 films | 6.75 films |
| Action | — | 6.62 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 6.53 films |
| Crime | 4.31 film | 6.93 films |
| Romance | 7.22 films | 6.52 films |
| Horror | 4.31 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Big Eyes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hipster Man.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
8.2 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
2025He
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.
19 of 19 films
as Deputy Floyd
Directed by Unknown
as Fox Sports Reporter
Directed by Simon Curtis
as Munro
Directed by Mark Jean
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
Deputy Floyd
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Deputy Floyd gives Matthew Kevin Anderson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fox Sports Reporter
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
Performance score7.7
The Art of Racing in the Rain asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fox Sports Reporter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Duncan Spencer
Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019)
Performance score7.6
Mystery 101: Playing Dead asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Duncan Spencer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Munro
Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day (2020)
Performance score7.2
Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Munro 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 Deputy Floyd
Start here. The Last Stand of Ellen Cole is the clearest statement of what Matthew Kevin Anderson does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 8.2 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.
Big Eyes (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Last Stand of Ellen Cole — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Big Eyes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Art of Racing in the Rain — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day (2020)
Keeps the mystery register of Mystery 101: Playing Dead but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Eyes
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Giancarlo Esposito
Director
1 film together
Notably The Show
Adam Wingard
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Note
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to Marwen
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Art of Racing in the Rain
Mark Jean
Director
1 film together
Notably Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day
Stacey N. Harding
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Classified
Jessica Harmon
Director
1 film together
Notably Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez
Anna Kendrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Woman of the Hour
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Art of Racing in the RainMark Jean
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gourmet Detective: Roux the DayTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big EyesJessica Harmon
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby HernandezStacey N. Harding
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, ClassifiedRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to MarwenAnna Kendrick
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woman of the HourBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandGiancarlo Esposito
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ShowAdam Wingard
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death NoteSix 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 Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
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 Art of Racing in the Rain
as Fox Sports Reporter
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 Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Big Eyes
as Hipster Man
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
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 Kevin Anderson 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.
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
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Art of Racing in the Rain
as Fox Sports Reporter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day
as Munro
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Deputy Floyd
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love, Classified
as Graham
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day
as Munro
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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