Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13381
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Steffan Rhodri 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.
Steffan Rhodri appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Steffan. National Theatre Live: Macbeth is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, comedy, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marc Evans, David Soutar, James Strong and others, Steffan Rhodri 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.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2024) as Banquo · Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell (2025) as Self · Submarine (2011) as Mr. Davey
Career snapshot
Ranked #13381 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2002–2025
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Most frequent director
Marc Evans
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marc Evans
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Wonder Woman, Submarine — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ali G Indahouse.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.41 film | 7.05 films |
| Action | — | 7.21 film | 7.21 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 7.41 film | 7.32 films |
| Romance | — | 7.41 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Ali G Indahouse
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Welsh Teacher.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024National Theatre Live: Macbeth
8.0 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
2025Words of War
The current state of the argument, as Major Lapin.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Mr. Davey
Directed by Richard Ayoade
as Hywel, King of Wealas
Directed by Edward Bazalgette
as Colonel Darnell
Directed by Patty Jenkins
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
Banquo
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2024)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Banquo gives Steffan Rhodri a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mr. Davey
Submarine (2011)
Performance score7.5
Submarine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Davey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell (2025)
Performance score7.3
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hywel, King of Wealas
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
Performance score7.1
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hywel, King of Wealas 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 Banquo
Start here. National Theatre Live: Macbeth is the clearest statement of what Steffan Rhodri does — accessible, 154 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Steffan 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.
Submarine (2011)
Keeps the drama register of National Theatre Live: Macbeth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wonder Woman (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Submarine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
Keeps the action register of Wonder Woman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mark Mylod
Director
1 film together
Notably Ali G Indahouse
Richard Ayoade
Director
1 film together
Notably Submarine
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman
Euros Lyn
Director
1 film together
Notably Dream Horse
Rodo Sayagues
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Breathe 2
Edward Bazalgette
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Ashley Way
Director
1 film together
Notably Men Up
James Strong
Director
1 film together
Notably Words of War
David Soutar
Director
1 film together
Notably Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
Marc Evans
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Burton
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Soutar
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond FarewellRichard Ayoade
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SubmarineEdward Bazalgette
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must DiePatty Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WomanRodo Sayagues
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Breathe 2Euros Lyn
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dream HorseMarc Evans
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. BurtonJames Strong
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words of WarAshley Way
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men UpMark Mylod
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ali G IndahouseSix 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
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Banquo
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Submarine
as Mr. Davey
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Banquo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wonder Woman
as Colonel Darnell
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Banquo
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. Steffan Rhodri 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
23 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
6 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
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Banquo
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Don't Breathe 2
as Surgeon
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Submarine
as Mr. Davey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wonder Woman
as Colonel Darnell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Wonder Woman
as Colonel Darnell
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Wonder Woman
as Colonel Darnell
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Submarine
as Mr. Davey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Submarine
as Mr. Davey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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