Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2599
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Robert Clohessy represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Robert is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Robert Clohessy appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 horror, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Myles Clohessy, Justin Baldoni, Benny Safdie and others, Robert Clohessy 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.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer) · The Avengers (2012) as Police Sergeant · Chemical Hearts (2020) as Martin Sawyer
Career snapshot
Ranked #2599 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
1994–2025
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Wolf of Wall Street
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
The Avengers
Most frequent director
Myles Clohessy
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Myles Clohessy
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.4
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Brawler, Good Time, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Angels in the Outfield.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | — | — | 6.66 films | 5.93 films |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | 6.83 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.42 films | 6.63 films | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.51 film | 6.54 films | 5.11 film |
| Crime | — | 6.42 films | 6.75 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | 5.64 films | 5.83 films |
| Horror | — | — | — | 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 Frank Gates.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012The Avengers
8.3 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
2025Wait List: A Love-ish Story
The current state of the argument, as Richard Morgan.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Police Sergeant
Directed by Joss Whedon
as Martin Sawyer
Directed by Unknown
as 7th Floor Elmhurst Police Officer
Directed by Benny Safdie
as Sheriff
Directed by Justin Baldoni
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
Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer) gives Robert Clohessy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Police Sergeant
The Avengers (2012)
Performance score8.0
The Avengers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Police Sergeant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Martin Sawyer
Chemical Hearts (2020)
Performance score7.2
Chemical Hearts asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Martin Sawyer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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7th Floor Elmhurst Police Officer
Good Time (2017)
Performance score7.1
Good Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 7th Floor Elmhurst Police Officer 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 Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
Start here. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest statement of what Robert Clohessy does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Robert 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.
The Avengers (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Wolf of Wall Street — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Time (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Avengers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Chemical Hearts (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Good Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
It Ends with Us (2024)
Keeps the romance register of Chemical Hearts but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
William Dear
Director
1 film together
Notably Angels in the Outfield
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Interpreter
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably 16 Blocks
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably 27 Dresses
Andrew Jarecki
Director
1 film together
Notably All Good Things
Jason Winer
Director
1 film together
Notably Arthur
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Tower Heist
Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Avengers
Derek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together
Notably The Place Beyond the Pines
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together
Notably A Most Violent Year
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Time
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably It Ends with Us
Myles Clohessy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Plantation
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetJoss Whedon
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AvengersBenny Safdie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good TimeJustin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It Ends with UsDerek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Place Beyond the PinesJ.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Most Violent YearAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
27 DressesRichard 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
16 BlocksSydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InterpreterBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tower HeistAndrew Jarecki
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Good ThingsWilliam Dear
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angels in the OutfieldJason Winer
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArthurMyles Clohessy
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PlantationSix 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
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Chemical Hearts
as Martin Sawyer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
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. Robert Clohessy 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.
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
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
It Ends with Us
as Sheriff
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
All Good Things
as Building Superintendent
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Avengers
as Police Sergeant
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Nolan Drager (Jordan's Lawyer)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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