Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1599
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Steve Coogan 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.
Steve Coogan appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Steve. From Roger Moore with Love 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, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lisa Barros D'Sa, Chris Renaud, Todd Phillips and others, Steve Coogan 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.
From Roger Moore with Love (2024) as Roger Moore (voice) · Hot Fuzz (2007) as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited) · Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) as Silas Ramsbottom (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1599 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2004–2025
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
From Roger Moore with Love
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
From Roger Moore with Love
Most frequent director
Chris Renaud
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Chris Renaud
Most common genre
Comedy
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Saipan, The Penguin Lessons, Despicable Me 4 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Tropic Thunder, Hot Fuzz.
Most productive era
2010s
19 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 | 6.82 films | 6.69 films | 6.34 films |
| Action | 6.74 films | 6.42 films | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.11 film | 5.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.77 films | 6.216 films | 7.03 films |
| Crime | 7.71 film | 4.31 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 6.63 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Ella Enchanted
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Heston (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024From Roger Moore with Love
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
The current state of the argument, as Tom Michell.
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.
34 of 34 films
as Stanley "Stan" Laurel
Directed by Jon S. Baird
as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
Directed by Edgar Wright
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
Roger Moore (voice)
From Roger Moore with Love (2024)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Roger Moore (voice) gives Steve Coogan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tom Michell
The Penguin Lessons (2025)
Performance score7.7
The Penguin Lessons asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tom Michell is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Stanley "Stan" Laurel
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Performance score7.5
Stan & Ollie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stanley "Stan" Laurel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beale
What Maisie Knew (2013)
Performance score7.5
What Maisie Knew asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beale 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 Roger Moore (voice)
Start here. From Roger Moore with Love is the clearest statement of what Steve Coogan does — accessible, 79 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Steve 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.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
A deliberate change of key after From Roger Moore with Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
What Maisie Knew (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Hot Fuzz — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Keeps the drama register of What Maisie Knew but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Penguin Lessons (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Stan & Ollie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
3 films together
Notably Night at the Museum
Kyle Balda
Director
3 films together
Notably Minions: The Rise of Gru
Chris Renaud
Director
3 films together
Notably Despicable Me 4
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Coffee and Cigarettes
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably Around the World in 80 Days
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably Ella Enchanted
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Marie Antoinette
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Hot Fuzz
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropic Thunder
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Casey Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Still Here
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Guys
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Idiot Brother
Jonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Ruby Sparks
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Rules Don't Apply
Stephanie Laing
Director
1 film together
Notably Irreplaceable You
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Ideal Home
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Stan & Ollie
Etan Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Holmes & Watson
Farhad Safinia
Director
1 film together
Notably The Professor and the Madman
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost King
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Joker: Folie à Deux
Lisa Barros D'Sa
Director
1 film together
Notably Saipan
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Renaud
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Despicable Me 4Kyle Balda
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Minions: The Rise of GruShawn Levy
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Night at the MuseumEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hot FuzzFarhad Safinia
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Professor and the MadmanJonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ruby SparksStephanie Laing
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irreplaceable YouJon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stan & OllieJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coffee and CigarettesBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropic ThunderSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marie AntoinetteStephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lost KingTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ella EnchantedAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ideal HomeAdam McKay
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 Other GuysLisa Barros D'Sa
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaipanChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Idiot BrotherCasey Affleck
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Still HereFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Around the World in 80 DaysWarren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rules Don't ApplyTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joker: Folie à DeuxEtan Cohen
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holmes & WatsonSix 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
Hot Fuzz
as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ruby Sparks
as Langdon Tharp
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
From Roger Moore with Love
as Roger Moore (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hot Fuzz
as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
From Roger Moore with Love
as Roger Moore (voice)
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. Steve Coogan 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
21 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
26 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
From Roger Moore with Love
as Roger Moore (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hot Fuzz
as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ruby Sparks
as Langdon Tharp
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Professor and the Madman
as Frederick James Furnivall
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hot Fuzz
as Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Around the World in 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ruby Sparks
as Langdon Tharp
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Night at the Museum
as Octavius
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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