Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9119
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tom Burke 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.
Tom Burke appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tom. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 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 action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alex Garland, George Miller, Harry Wootliff and others, Tom Burke 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.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) as Praetorian Jack · Modern/Love in 7 Short Films (2019) as Him · Living (2022) as Sutherland
Career snapshot
Ranked #9119 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2004–2028
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Most frequent director
Alex Garland
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alex Garland
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Responsible Child, The Souvenir, Modern/Love in 7 Short Films — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. The Libertine.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 5.91 film | 6.26 films | 6.37 films |
| Action | — | — | 3.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.72 films | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Crime | — | 5.72 films | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 6.02 films | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004The Libertine
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vaughan.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.5 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
2028Elden Ring
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.
16 of 16 films
as Praetorian Jack
Directed by George Miller
as Will Byrne
Directed by Unknown
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
Praetorian Jack
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Praetorian Jack gives Tom Burke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Him
Modern/Love in 7 Short Films (2019)
Performance score7.2
Modern/Love in 7 Short Films asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Him is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sutherland
Living (2022)
Performance score7.1
Living asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sutherland is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Will Byrne
The Wonder (2022)
Performance score7.0
The Wonder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Will Byrne 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 Praetorian Jack
Start here. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the clearest statement of what Tom Burke does — accessible, 149 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tom 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.
Modern/Love in 7 Short Films (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Living (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Modern/Love in 7 Short Films but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Wonder (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Living but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Bag (2025)
Same director as The Wonder, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ralph Fiennes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invisible Woman
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together
Notably Only God Forgives
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Mank
Oliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together
Notably Living
Harry Wootliff
Director
1 film together
Notably True Things
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Elden Ring
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaOliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LivingDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MankRalph Fiennes
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Invisible WomanNicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only God ForgivesHarry Wootliff
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True ThingsAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elden RingSix 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
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mank
as Orson Welles
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Souvenir: Part II
as Anthony (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
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. Tom Burke 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 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
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Souvenir: Part II
as Anthony (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Show
as Fletcher Dennis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mank
as Orson Welles
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Praetorian Jack
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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