Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#575
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Reed Diamond represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Reed is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Reed Diamond appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Reed. Spider-Man 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 drama, mystery, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joss Whedon, Melisa Wallack, George Clooney and others, Reed Diamond 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.
Spider-Man 2 (2004) as 'Algernon' · Moneyball (2011) as Mark Shapiro · Our Friend (2019) as Peter
Career snapshot
Ranked #575 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1990–2026
Career length
36 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Spider-Man 2
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Spider-Man 2
Most frequent director
Joss Whedon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joss Whedon
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
6.5
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
2010s
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Our Friend, Much Ado About Nothing, Moneyball — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Assassins, Clear and Present Danger, Memphis Belle.
Most productive era
2000s
4 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 | 6.62 films | 7.32 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | 6.63 films | 6.82 films | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.62 films | 6.21 film | — | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | 6.81 film | — |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Memphis Belle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Virgil Hoogesteger.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2004Spider-Man 2
7.5 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 Kevin.
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 'Algernon'
Directed by Sam Raimi
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
'Algernon'
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. 'Algernon' gives Reed Diamond a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mark Shapiro
Moneyball (2011)
Performance score7.2
Moneyball asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mark Shapiro is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter
Our Friend (2019)
Performance score7.1
Our Friend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Don Pedro
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
Performance score7.0
Much Ado About Nothing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Don Pedro 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 'Algernon'
Start here. Spider-Man 2 is the clearest statement of what Reed Diamond does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Reed 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.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Moneyball (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Good Night, and Good Luck. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Moneyball — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Our Friend (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Much Ado About Nothing — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Memphis Belle
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably Clear and Present Danger
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassins
Clark Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably S.W.A.T.
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man 2
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck.
Melisa Wallack
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet Bill
Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Much Ado About Nothing
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man 2George Clooney
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good Luck.Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Much Ado About NothingPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clear and Present DangerMichael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Memphis BelleRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AssassinsClark Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
S.W.A.T.Melisa Wallack
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet BillSix 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
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Our Friend
as Peter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
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. Reed Diamond 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
36 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
7 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
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Our Friend
as Peter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Drop
as Richard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Meet Bill
as Paul
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man 2
as 'Algernon'
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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