Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#912
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rami Malek 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.
Rami Malek appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rami. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Vanderbilt, James Hawes, Christopher Nolan and others, Rami Malek 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as David Hill · Oppenheimer (2023) as David Hill · Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) as Freddie Mercury
Career snapshot
Ranked #912 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2006–2027
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Shawn Levy
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Shawn Levy
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.7
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rami Malek: Becoming Freddie, The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story, Bohemian Rhapsody — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
7 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Man I Love, Nuremberg, The Amateur.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.89 films | 6.26 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.41 film | 7.12 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.22 films | 7.44 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.12 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | 6.63 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.23 films | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ahkmenrah.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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
2027The Man I Love
The current state of the argument, as Jimmy.
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 David Hill
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Douglas Kelley
Directed by James Vanderbilt
as David Hill
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Self (archive footage)
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.
Showing 24 of 32 titles · 34 total credits · active 2006–2027
The Man I Love
2027 · Jimmy
Nuremberg
2025 · Douglas Kelley
The Amateur
2025 · Heller · Producer
Oppenheimer
2023 · David Hill
The 2010s
2023 · TV · Self - Actor, Mr. Robot
Amsterdam
2022 · Tom Voze
The Sound of 007
2022 · Self
No Time to Die
2021 · Lyutsifer Safin
The Little Things
2021 · Jim Baxter
Being James Bond
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Dolittle
2020 · Chee-Chee (voice)
Rami Malek: Becoming Freddie
2019 · Self / Freddie Mercury
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019 · Self
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · Freddie Mercury
Buster's Mal Heart
2017 · Buster
Papillon
2017 · Louis Dega
Mr. Robot
2015 · TV · Elliot Alderson · Producer
Need for Speed
2014 · Finn
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 · Ahkmenrah
BoJack Horseman
2014 · TV · Flip McVicker (voice)
Believe
2014 · TV · Dr. Adam Terry
Short Term 12
2013 · Nate
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
2013 · Will
Oldboy
2013 · Browning
The defining work
#1
David Hill
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. David Hill gives Rami Malek a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Freddie Mercury
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Performance score8.6
Bohemian Rhapsody asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Freddie Mercury is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Douglas Kelley
Nuremberg (2025)
Performance score8.1
Nuremberg asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Douglas Kelley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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David Hill
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David Hill 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 David Hill
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Rami Malek does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rami 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.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Being James Bond (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Bohemian Rhapsody — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Being James Bond — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Nuremberg (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
3 films together
Notably Night at the Museum
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Tom Hanks
Director
1 film together
Notably Larry Crowne
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Master
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Oldboy
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Short Term 12
Sarah Adina Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Buster's Mal Heart
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Bohemian Rhapsody
Christopher Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Things
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Die
Mat Whitecross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sound of 007
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Amsterdam
James Hawes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Amateur
James Vanderbilt
Director
1 film together
Notably Nuremberg
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Dylan Arnold
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shawn Levy
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Night at the MuseumChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bohemian RhapsodyDestin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Short Term 12James Vanderbilt
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NurembergChristopher Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert StoryMat Whitecross
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sound of 007Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to DiePaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MasterJames Hawes
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 AmateurStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleBill Condon
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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little ThingsDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmsterdamSarah Adina Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Buster's Mal HeartDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ain't Them Bodies SaintsTom Hanks
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Larry CrowneSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OldboySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2024
Oppenheimer
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Benjamin
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
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. Rami Malek has known it for a long time.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #549 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2023–2023 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | David Hill — Oppenheimer | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Oppenheimer | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
15 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
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Oldboy
as Browning
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Die
as Lyutsifer Safin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Larry Crowne
as Steve Dibiasi
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as David Hill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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