Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2133
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rade Šerbedžija represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Rade is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rade Šerbedžija appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rade. Batman Begins is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Bamford, Babak Najafi, Terry George and others, Rade Šerbedžija 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.
Batman Begins (2005) as Homeless Man · Snatch (2000) as Boris The Blade · Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Milich
Career snapshot
Ranked #2133 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
1994–2025
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Batman Begins
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Snatch
Most frequent director
James Bamford
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With James Bamford
Most common genre
Action
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.5
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
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Eyes Wide Shut, Mighty Joe Young, Before the Rain — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
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. Eyes Wide Shut, Mighty Joe Young, Before the Rain.
Most productive era
2000s
11 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 | 7.32 films | 6.85 films | 6.24 films | 7.01 film |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.66 films | 6.04 films | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 6.37 films | 6.13 films | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.32 films | — | 7.01 film |
| Crime | — | 7.33 films | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film | 6.32 films | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | 5.82 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Before the Rain
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Aleksander.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2005Batman Begins
8.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Anton Skoll.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Homeless Man
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Boris The Blade
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Milich
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
as Deda Maksim
Directed by Unknown
as Aleksander
Directed by Milcho Manchevski
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
Homeless Man
Batman Begins (2005)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Homeless Man gives Rade Šerbedžija a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Boris The Blade
Snatch (2000)
Performance score7.7
Snatch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boris The Blade is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Milich
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Performance score7.7
Eyes Wide Shut asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Milich is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Deda Maksim
Ponton's Heart (2025)
Performance score7.4
Ponton's Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Deda Maksim 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 Homeless Man
Start here. Batman Begins is the clearest statement of what Rade Šerbedžija does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rade 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.
Before the Rain (1994)
Keeps the drama register of Batman Begins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Before the Rain but asks for a colder reading of it.
Snatch (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Eyes Wide Shut — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ponton's Heart (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Snatch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Renny Harlin
Director
2 films together
Notably 5 Days of War
James Bamford
Director
2 films together
Notably The Last GunFight
Milcho Manchevski
Director
1 film together
Notably Before the Rain
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Mighty Joe Young
Stanley Kubrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Eyes Wide Shut
John Woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible II
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Cowboys
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Snatch
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quiet American
Alec Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably EuroTrip
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Begins
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Shooter
John Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together
Notably Quarantine
Mimi Leder
Director
1 film together
Notably Thick as Thieves
Angelina Jolie
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Land of Blood and Honey
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
Richard Ayoade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Double
Terry George
Director
1 film together
Notably The Promise
Babak Najafi
Director
1 film together
Notably Proud Mary
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Bamford
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Last GunFightRenny Harlin
Director
2 films together · 5.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
5 Days of WarChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman BeginsGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnatchStanley Kubrick
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eyes Wide ShutMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShooterTerry George
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PromiseMilcho Manchevski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before the RainAlec Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuroTripPhillip Noyce
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 Quiet AmericanRichard Ayoade
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 DoubleClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space CowboysStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mighty Joe YoungJohn Woo
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible IIMimi Leder
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thick as ThievesAngelina Jolie
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Land of Blood and HoneyJohn Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuarantineBabak Najafi
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Proud MarySix 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
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
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 Promise
as Stephan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
EuroTrip
as Tibor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
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. Rade Šerbedžija 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
31 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
13 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
Eyes Wide Shut
as Milich
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Promise
as Stephan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Eyes Wide Shut
as Milich
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Legend of Hercules
as Chiron
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ponton's Heart
as Deda Maksim
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman Begins
as Homeless Man
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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