Tom Nelis
Tom Nelis Film and Television: Recent exciting work includes portraying Howard Hughes in J.J. Abrams new HBO series DUSTER and shooting opposite Paul Mescal in HISTORY OF SOUND. Also: OUT AND ABOUT, GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, ESTELLA SCROGE, THE TWIN TOWERS, MISSING CHILDREN, WHOPPIE, SMASH, LITTLE KINGS, Conan O'Brien and A GIFTED MAN Mr Nelis has appeared on Broadway in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, THE VISIT, ENRON, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL, and AIDA. Off Broadway he has been seen at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theater, Classic Stage Company, Theater for a New Audience / The Royal Shakespeare Company, Cafe La Mama, New York Theater Workshop, Second Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mineta Lane, and Manhattan Theater Club as well as at regional theaters across the U.S.. He has been awarded an Eliot Norton Award for Prospero in The Tempest, an OBIE for Marshall McLuhan in THE MEDIUM, and a Drama League Nomination for Leonard Bernstein in SCORE. Nelis was a founding member of SITI Company and performed with that ensemble for 25 years. He has toured the U.S. and Europe with both Laurie Anderson and Richard Foreman He earned his MFA at UC San Diego.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Actor
- 6 on MovieCove · 9 credits in all
What are Tom Nelis' films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
A split, not a type: Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Mentoras Coach Burns in Out and About (2022)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Tom Nelis' films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Tom Nelis' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
9 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.
The History of Sound(2025)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Duster(2025)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Girl From the North Country (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Out and About(2022)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Homesick (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Indecent(2018)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Smash(2012)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
Whoopi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Career shape
Star power in the 22nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 9 titles from 2003 to 2025.
Film career
- 2025Screen debut· The History of Sound
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Tom Nelis' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 81st percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 93rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 6 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.