Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8908
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ser'Darius Blain 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.
Ser'Darius Blain appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ser'Darius. The Last Full Measure is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jake Kasdan, James Cullen Bressack, Jon Erwin and others, Ser'Darius Blain 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 Last Full Measure (2020) as Young Takoda · Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt · American Underdog (2021) as Mike Hudnutt
Career snapshot
Ranked #8908 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Last Full Measure
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Star Trek Into Darkness
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.2
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jumanji: The Next Level, Bolden, Seberg — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jumanji: The Next Level, Bolden, Seberg.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.84 films | 7.22 films |
| Action | 7.02 films | 6.04 films |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 5.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 0.01 film |
| Crime | — | 5.52 films |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt. 7.3 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
The current state of the argument, as Anthony 'Fridge' Johnson.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Young Takoda
Directed by Todd Robinson
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
Directed by J.J. Abrams
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Mike Hudnutt
American Underdog (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mike Hudnutt gives Ser'Darius Blain a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Takoda
The Last Full Measure (2020)
Performance score7.2
The Last Full Measure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Takoda is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Performance score7.2
Star Trek Into Darkness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cam Colvin
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Performance score6.9
When the Game Stands Tall asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cam Colvin 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 Mike Hudnutt
Start here. American Underdog is the clearest statement of what Ser'Darius Blain does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ser'Darius 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 Trek Into Darkness (2013)
A deliberate change of key after American Underdog — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Star Trek Into Darkness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Camp X-Ray (2014)
Keeps the drama register of When the Game Stands Tall but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Last Full Measure (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Camp X-Ray but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Kasdan
Director
3 films together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek Into Darkness
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably When the Game Stands Tall
Todd Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Full Measure
Jon Erwin
Director
1 film together
Notably American Underdog
James Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together
Notably Fortress
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
3 films together · 4.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelTodd Robinson
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 Last Full MeasureJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek Into DarknessJon Erwin
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American UnderdogThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When the Game Stands TallJames Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FortressSix 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 Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
American Underdog
as Mike Hudnutt
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
American Underdog
as Mike Hudnutt
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. Ser'Darius Blain 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in action, 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
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bolden
as Willie Cornish
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Anthony 'Fridge' Johnson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Enterprise Red Shirt
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Young Fridge
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Last Full Measure
as Young Takoda
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Til Death Do Us Part
as Groom
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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