Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4703
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tye Sheridan 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.
Tye Sheridan appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tye. Ready Player One is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Justin Kurzel, Paul Schrader, Neil Burger and others, Tye Sheridan 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.
Ready Player One (2018) as Parzival / Wade · Deadpool 2 (2018) as Cyclops (uncredited) · Once Upon a Deadpool (2018) as Scott Summers / Cyclops (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4703 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2011–2024
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Ready Player One
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Ready Player One
Most frequent director
David Leitch
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dark Phoenix, The Mountain, Deadpool 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Dark Phoenix, The Mountain, Deadpool 2.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 6.17 films | 6.35 films |
| Action | 6.95 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | 6.25 films |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | — |
| Crime | 5.82 films | 6.33 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011The Tree of Life
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Steve.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Ready Player One
7.6 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
2024The Order
The current state of the argument, as Jamie Bowen.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Parzival / Wade
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Cyclops (uncredited)
Directed by David Leitch
as Jamie Bowen
Directed by Justin Kurzel
as JR Maguire
Directed by George Clooney
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
Parzival / Wade
Ready Player One (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Parzival / Wade gives Tye Sheridan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ellis
Mud (2013)
Performance score7.5
Mud asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ellis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cyclops (uncredited)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Deadpool 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cyclops (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jamie Bowen
The Order (2024)
Performance score7.0
The Order asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jamie Bowen 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 Parzival / Wade
Start here. Ready Player One is the clearest statement of what Tye Sheridan does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tye 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.
Mud (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Ready Player One — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Mud — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Tender Bar (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Deadpool 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Order (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Tender Bar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tree of Life
Philip Martin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Forger
Rodrigo García
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Days in the Desert
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Apocalypse
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Ready Player One
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Phoenix
Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Night Clerk
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tender Bar
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Voyagers
Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably The Card Counter
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Order
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ready Player OneTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tree of LifeJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OrderGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tender BarBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: ApocalypseMichael Cristofer
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Night ClerkPaul Schrader
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Card CounterNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VoyagersSimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark PhoenixRodrigo García
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Days in the DesertPhilip Martin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ForgerSix 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
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Last Days in the Desert
as Son
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool 2
as Cyclops (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
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. Tye Sheridan 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
12 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
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Last Days in the Desert
as Son
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dark Places
as Young Ben Day
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ready Player One
as Parzival / Wade
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Card Counter
as Cirk
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Order
as Jamie Bowen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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