Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19593
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Théodore Pellerin 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.
Théodore Pellerin appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Théodore. It's Only the End of the World is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicole Garcia, Alex Russell, Ari Aster and others, Théodore Pellerin 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.
It's Only the End of the World (2016) as Antoine (age 16-22) · Boy Erased (2018) as Xavier · Beau Is Afraid (2023) as Beau’s Son
Career snapshot
Ranked #19593 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2016–2027
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
It's Only the End of the World
Average Nutevio score
4.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
It's Only the End of the World
Most frequent director
Nicole Garcia
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nicole Garcia
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.1
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Ville Neuve, Boy Erased, It's Only the End of the World — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Ville Neuve, Boy Erased, It's Only the End of the World.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 6.63 films | 3.78 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 2.23 films |
| Romance | — | 5.71 film |
| Horror | — | 5.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016It's Only the End of the World
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Antoine (age 16-22). 7.2 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
20277:40 ce matin-là
The current state of the argument, as Milo.
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 Matthew
Directed by Alex Russell
as Beau’s Son
Directed by Ari Aster
as Milo
Directed by Nicole Garcia
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
Matthew
Lurker (2025)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Matthew gives Théodore Pellerin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Antoine (age 16-22)
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Performance score7.1
It's Only the End of the World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antoine (age 16-22) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Xavier
Boy Erased (2018)
Performance score6.9
Boy Erased asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Xavier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beau’s Son
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Performance score6.6
Beau Is Afraid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beau’s Son 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 Matthew
Start here. Lurker is the clearest statement of what Théodore Pellerin does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Théodore 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.
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Lurker but asks for a colder reading of it.
Boy Erased (2018)
Keeps the drama register of It's Only the End of the World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Boy Erased — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
7:40 ce matin-là (2027)
Keeps the comedy register of Beau Is Afraid but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Only the End of the World
Joel Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably Boy Erased
Gabriel Lemay
Director
1 film together
Notably Rosa
Patrick Brice
Director
1 film together
Notably There's Someone Inside Your House
Tim Southam
Director
1 film together
Notably Embrasse
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Beau Is Afraid
Alex Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Lurker
Nicole Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably 7:40 ce matin-là
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's Only the End of the WorldJoel Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boy ErasedAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beau Is AfraidAlex Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LurkerGabriel Lemay
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RosaPatrick Brice
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
There's Someone Inside Your HouseNicole Garcia
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7:40 ce matin-làTim Southam
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EmbrasseSix 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
Boy Erased
as Xavier
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Solo
as Simon / Glory Gore
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
It's Only the End of the World
as Antoine (age 16-22)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Beau Is Afraid
as Beau’s Son
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Lurker
as Matthew
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. Théodore Pellerin 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 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
Beau Is Afraid
as Beau’s Son
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
It's Only the End of the World
as Antoine (age 16-22)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Solo
as Simon / Glory Gore
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mayday
as Dimitri
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
It's Only the End of the World
as Antoine (age 16-22)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Beau Is Afraid
as Beau’s Son
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ville Neuve
as Ulysse
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Solo
as Simon / Glory Gore
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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