Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#299
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chris Hemsworth 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.
Chris Hemsworth appears in 39 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chris. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Bart Layton, Josh Cooley and others, Chris Hemsworth 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.
Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Thor · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Thor · The Avengers (2012) as Thor
Career snapshot
Ranked #299 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
39
2009–2027
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Avengers: Endgame
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Avengers: Endgame
Most frequent director
Taika Waititi
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Taika Waititi
Most common genre
Action
25 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Star Trek, A Perfect Getaway — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Star Trek, A Perfect Getaway.
Most productive era
2010s
24 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 | — | 6.85 films | — |
| Action | 7.61 film | 6.917 films | 5.97 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.15 films | 6.75 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.410 films | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | 6.13 films | 7.22 films |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Star Trek
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Commander George Kirk.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Thor.
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.
39 of 39 films
as Thor
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Thor
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (voice)
Directed by Josh Cooley
as Thor
Directed by Taika Waititi
as Thor
Directed by Joss Whedon
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
Thor
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Thor gives Chris Hemsworth a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Thor
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.4
Avengers: Endgame asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (voice)
Transformers One (2024)
Performance score8.3
Transformers One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thor
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Performance score8.3
Thor: Ragnarok asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thor 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 Thor
Start here. Avengers: Infinity War is the clearest statement of what Chris Hemsworth does — accessible, 149 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chris 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 Avengers (2012)
Keeps the action register of Avengers: Infinity War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Keeps the action register of The Avengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Keeps the action register of Thor: Ragnarok but asks for a colder reading of it.
Transformers One (2024)
Keeps the science fiction register of Avengers: Endgame but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Taika Waititi
Director
5 films together
Notably Thor: Ragnarok
Anthony Russo
Director
4 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Ron Howard
Director
2 films together
Notably Rush
Joss Whedon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Avengers
Drew Goddard
Director
2 films together
Notably Bad Times at the El Royale
Sam Hargrave
Director
2 films together
Notably Extraction 2
David Twohy
Director
1 film together
Notably A Perfect Getaway
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor
Dan Bradley
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dawn
Alan Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: The Dark World
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Blackhat
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Vacation
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Huntsman: Winter's War
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Strange
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Men in Black: International
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Spiderhead
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Josh Cooley
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers One
Bart Layton
Director
1 film together
Notably Crime 101
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Taika Waititi
Director
5 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Thor: RagnarokAnthony Russo
Director
4 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameJoss Whedon
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The AvengersSam Hargrave
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
Extraction 2Ron Howard
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
RushDrew Goddard
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bad Times at the El RoyaleJosh Cooley
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers OneScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor StrangeJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star TrekGeorge 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 SagaBart Layton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crime 101Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and ThunderKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThorAlan Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: The Dark WorldCedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Huntsman: Winter's WarJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VacationDavid Twohy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Perfect GetawayF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men in Black: InternationalJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpiderheadKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jay and Silent Bob RebootDan Bradley
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DawnMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackhatPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostbustersSix 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
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thor
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Transformers One
as Orion Pax / Optimus Prime (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Doctor Strange
as Thor (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thor
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. Chris Hemsworth 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
25 catalogue titles in action, 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
Avengers: Endgame
as Thor
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
In the Heart of the Sea
as Owen Chase
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ca$h
as Sam Phelan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Thor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Dementus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
12 Strong
as Mitch Nelson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Thor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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