Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#42851
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Pascal Greggory represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Pascal is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Pascal Greggory appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pascal. La Vie en Rose is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 drama, romance, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivier Dahan, Jean-Paul Salomé, Luc Besson and others, Pascal Greggory 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.
La Vie en Rose (2007) as Louis Barrier · Sisters in Arms (2019) as Coalition agent · Jeanne du Barry (2023) as Le Duc D'Aiguillon
Career snapshot
Ranked #42851 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1994–2026
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
La Vie en Rose
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
La Vie en Rose
Most frequent director
Olivier Dahan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Olivier Dahan
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.3
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
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Queen Margot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films 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. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Queen Margot.
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 | 6.72 films | 7.41 film | 4.81 film | 4.05 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 5.31 film | 7.11 film | 6.81 film |
| Crime | — | 5.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 5.31 film | — | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Queen Margot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Anjou.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2007La Vie en Rose
7.4 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
2026Tomb of Dreams
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.
12 of 12 films
as Louis Barrier
Directed by Olivier Dahan
as Frederic Hubert
Directed by Unknown
as Coalition agent
Directed by Unknown
as Georg Kienzler
Directed by Unknown
as Le Duc D'Aiguillon
Directed by Unknown
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
Louis Barrier
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Louis Barrier gives Pascal Greggory a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Frederic Hubert
Saturday Fiction (2021)
Performance score7.0
Saturday Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frederic Hubert is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Coalition agent
Sisters in Arms (2019)
Performance score7.0
Sisters in Arms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coalition agent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Georg Kienzler
One Fine Morning (2022)
Performance score6.9
One Fine Morning asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Georg Kienzler 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 Louis Barrier
Start here. La Vie en Rose is the clearest statement of what Pascal Greggory does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pascal 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.
Sisters in Arms (2019)
A deliberate change of key after La Vie en Rose — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Saturday Fiction (2021)
Same director as Sisters in Arms, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
One Fine Morning (2022)
Same director as Saturday Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Jeanne du Barry (2023)
Same director as One Fine Morning, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Patrice Chéreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Queen Margot
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Jean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together
Notably Arsène Lupin
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably La Vie en Rose
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La Vie en RosePatrice Chéreau
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queen MargotLuc Besson
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 Messenger: The Story of Joan of ArcJean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Arsène LupinSix 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
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sisters in Arms
as Coalition agent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
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. Pascal Greggory 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
32 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
9 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
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Saturday Fiction
as Frederic Hubert
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Jeanne du Barry
as Le Duc D'Aiguillon
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Three Adventures of Brooke
as Pierre
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sisters in Arms
as Coalition agent
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Saturday Fiction
as Frederic Hubert
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
La Vie en Rose
as Louis Barrier
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as The Duke of Alençon
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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