Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2618
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ron Livingston represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Ron is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ron Livingston appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ron. Killing Castro is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 drama, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eif Rivera, Rick Gomez, Andy Muschietti and others, Ron Livingston 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.
Killing Castro (2026) · The Conjuring (2013) as Roger Perron · Office Space (1999) as Peter Gibbons
Career snapshot
Ranked #2618 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
1996–2026
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Killing Castro
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Killing Castro
Most frequent director
Joe Swanberg
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Joe Swanberg
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
6.7
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
1990s
7.1 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Office Space, Swingers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.1
Across 2 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. Office Space, Swingers.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 6.64 films | 6.19 films | 6.45 films |
| Action | — | — | 5.91 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 7.12 films | 6.53 films | 6.29 films | 5.65 films |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.33 films | 6.02 films | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | — | 7.71 film | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Swingers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rob.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Killing Castro
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026She Dances
The current state of the argument, as Andrew.
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.
29 of 29 films
Directed by Eif Rivera
as Peter Gibbons
Directed by Mike Judge
as Roger Perron
Directed by James Wan
as Drew Moreau
Directed by Jason Reitman
as Marty Bowen
Directed by Spike Jonze
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
Killing Castro
Killing Castro (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Ron Livingston a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Peter Gibbons
Office Space (1999)
Performance score8.0
Office Space asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter Gibbons is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roger Perron
The Conjuring (2013)
Performance score7.7
The Conjuring asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roger Perron is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Drew Moreau
Tully (2018)
Performance score7.2
Tully asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drew Moreau 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
Start here. Killing Castro is the clearest statement of what Ron Livingston does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ron 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.
Office Space (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Killing Castro — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Adaptation. (2002)
Keeps the comedy register of Office Space but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Conjuring (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Adaptation. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tully (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Conjuring — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Roach
Director
2 films together
Notably Game Change
Joe Swanberg
Director
2 films together
Notably Drinking Buddies
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Swingers
Mike Judge
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Space
Spike Jonze
Director
1 film together
Notably Adaptation.
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cooler
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Black Book
Pete Michels
Director
1 film together
Notably Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably The Time Traveler's Wife
Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Going the Distance
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parkland
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Conjuring
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Vacation
J Blakeson
Director
1 film together
Notably The 5th Wave
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Tully
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tender Bar
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flash
Rick Gomez
Director
1 film together
Notably She Dances
Eif Rivera
Director
1 film together
Notably Killing Castro
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Roach
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Game ChangeJoe Swanberg
Director
2 films together · 5.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Drinking BuddiesEif Rivera
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killing CastroJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConjuringMike Judge
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office SpaceSpike Jonze
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adaptation.Robert Schwentke
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 Time Traveler's WifePete Michels
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stewie Griffin: The Untold StoryJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TullyDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwingersWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CoolerAndy Muschietti
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 FlashGeorge Clooney
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 Tender BarJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VacationPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParklandNanette Burstein
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going the DistanceJ Blakeson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 5th WaveNick Hurran
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Black BookRick Gomez
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She DancesSix 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
Killing Castro
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Killing Castro
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Killing Castro
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Killing Castro
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. Ron Livingston 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
30 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
19 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
Killing Castro
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Killing Castro
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Killing Castro
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Time Traveler's Wife
as Gomez
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Killing Castro
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Flash
as Henry Allen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Fred
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Conjuring
as Roger Perron
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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