Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7563
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ray Park works on physical performance 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.
Ray Park appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ray. X-Men is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are physical performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ron Howard, Jesse V. Johnson, Jon M. Chu and others, Ray Park 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.
X-Men (2000) as Toad · X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000) as Self - 'Toad' · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) as Darth Maul
Career snapshot
Ranked #7563 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1999–2018
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
X-Men
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Most frequent director
Ron Howard
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ron Howard
Most common genre
Adventure
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
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. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
Most productive era
2000s
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.81 film | 6.03 films | 6.33 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.52 films | 6.22 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.31 film | 6.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Darth Maul.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2000X-Men
7.0 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
2018Accident Man
The current state of the argument, as Mac.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Toad
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Darth Maul
Directed by George Lucas
as Maul
Directed by Ron Howard
as Mac
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson
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
Toad
X-Men (2000)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Toad gives Ray Park a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self - 'Toad'
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)
Performance score6.7
X-Men: The Mutant Watch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - 'Toad' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Darth Maul
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Performance score6.7
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Darth Maul is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maul
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Performance score6.6
Solo: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maul 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 Toad
Start here. X-Men is the clearest statement of what Ray Park does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ray 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.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Keeps the action register of X-Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
A deliberate change of key after X-Men: The Mutant Watch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Accident Man (2018)
Keeps the action register of Solo: A Star Wars Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Thomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Accident Man
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-MenThomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Mutant WatchGeorge Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom MenaceRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StoryJesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Accident ManStephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
G.I. Joe: The Rise of CobraJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
G.I. Joe: RetaliationSix 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
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Darth Maul
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Darth Maul
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men
as Toad
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Maul
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
X-Men
as Toad
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. Ray Park 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
X-Men
as Toad
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Accident Man
as Mac
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fanboys
as THX Security Guard #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Accident Man
as Mac
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men
as Toad
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Maul
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Accident Man
as Mac
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
as Agent A.J. Ross
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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