Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#24087
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Thierry Frémont 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.
Thierry Frémont appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Thierry. The Round Up is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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, tv movie, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gilles Graveleau, Eric Valette, Robert Zemeckis and others, Thierry Frémont 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 Round Up (2010) as Capitaine Pierret · Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away (2019) as Grocer · Allied (2016) as Paul Delamare
Career snapshot
Ranked #24087 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Round Up
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Round Up
Most frequent director
Gilles Graveleau
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gilles Graveleau
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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
6.3
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. All the Gods in the Sky, Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away, Allied — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Femme Fatale.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | — | 6.73 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 6.81 film | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | 0.02 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | — | 5.91 film |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Femme Fatale
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Serra.
Highest rated performance
2010The Round Up
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026La Startup
The current state of the argument.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Grocer
Directed by Unknown
as Capitaine Pierret
Directed by Roselyne Bosch
as Alain Bisset
Directed by Eric Valette
as Paul Delamare
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
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
Grocer
Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away (2019)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Grocer gives Thierry Frémont a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Capitaine Pierret
The Round Up (2010)
Performance score7.3
The Round Up asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Capitaine Pierret is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alain Bisset
Noir comme neige (2021)
Performance score6.7
Noir comme neige asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alain Bisset is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paul Delamare
Allied (2016)
Performance score6.7
Allied asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paul Delamare 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 Grocer
Start here. Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away is the clearest statement of what Thierry Frémont does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Thierry 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.
The Round Up (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Allied (2016)
Keeps the war register of The Round Up but asks for a colder reading of it.
Noir comme neige (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of Allied but asks for a colder reading of it.
La Startup (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Noir comme neige — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian De Palma
Director
1 film together
Notably Femme Fatale
Roselyne Bosch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Round Up
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Allied
Eric Valette
Director
1 film together
Notably Noir comme neige
Gilles Graveleau
Director
1 film together
Notably La Startup
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roselyne Bosch
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Round UpRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlliedBrian De Palma
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Femme FataleEric Valette
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Noir comme neigeGilles Graveleau
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La StartupSix 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
The Round Up
as Capitaine Pierret
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Allied
as Paul Delamare
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Round Up
as Capitaine Pierret
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Round Up
as Capitaine Pierret
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
as Grocer
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. Thierry Frémont 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
24 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
3 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
The Round Up
as Capitaine Pierret
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Femme Fatale
as Serra
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Allied
as Paul Delamare
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Femme Fatale
as Serra
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Round Up
as Capitaine Pierret
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
as Grocer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Minuscule 2: Mandibles from Far Away
as Grocer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Femme Fatale
as Serra
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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