Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#180
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chris Pratt 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 Pratt appears in 42 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Horvath, Timur Bekmambetov, McG and others, Chris Pratt 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 Peter Quill / Star-Lord · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Peter Quill / Star-Lord · The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Mario (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #180 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
42
2008–2026
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
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Most frequent director
James Gunn
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.8
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Mercy, Way of the Warrior Kid — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Bride Wars, Jennifer's Body, Deep in the Valley.
Most productive era
2010s
22 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 | — | 6.59 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | 6.71 film | 7.47 films | 7.25 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.73 films | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 5.73 films | 6.28 films | 7.47 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Romance | 5.62 films | 6.75 films | — |
| Horror | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Wanted
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Barry.
Highest rated performance
8.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2026The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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 Jake.
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.
42 of 42 films
as Mario (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Directed by James Gunn
as Peter Quill
Directed by James Gunn
as Mario (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Directed by James Gunn
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
Mario (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mario (voice) gives Chris Pratt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Performance score8.6
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter Quill / Star-Lord is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Performance score8.6
Guardians of the Galaxy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter Quill is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mario (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Performance score8.3
The Super Mario Bros. Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mario (voice) 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 Mario (voice)
Start here. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest statement of what Chris Pratt does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 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.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Keeps the adventure register of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Same director as Guardians of the Galaxy, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Same director as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Gunn
Director
4 films together
Notably Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Anthony Russo
Director
3 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Colin Trevorrow
Director
2 films together
Notably Jurassic World
Brad Baruh
Director
2 films together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Timur Bekmambetov
Director
2 films together
Notably Mercy
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Take Me Home Tonight
Mark Mylod
Director
1 film together
Notably What's Your Number?
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably Zero Dark Thirty
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Five-Year Engagement
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Spike Jonze
Director
1 film together
Notably Her
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Jem and the Holograms
Morten Tyldum
Director
1 film together
Notably Passengers
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magnificent Seven
J. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Morgan Sackett
Director
1 film together
Notably A Parks and Recreation Special
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: Love and Thunder
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Garfield Movie
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Way of the Warrior Kid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Gunn
Director
4 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Anthony Russo
Director
3 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameAaron Horvath
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MovieTimur Bekmambetov
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MercyBrad Baruh
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and ThunderColin Trevorrow
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jurassic WorldSpike Jonze
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HerMorgan Sackett
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Parks and Recreation SpecialPhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego MovieMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Garfield MovieMorten Tyldum
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PassengersKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zero Dark ThirtyMike Mitchell
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 Lego Movie 2: The Second PartTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: Love and ThunderJ. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magnificent SevenMark Mylod
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What's Your Number?Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Take Me Home TonightKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodyNicholas Stoller
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 Five-Year EngagementJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jem and the HologramsBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43McG
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Way of the Warrior KidSix 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 Peter Quill / Star-Lord
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Mario (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 Peter Quill / Star-Lord
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Mario (voice)
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 Pratt 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
18 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 Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Mario (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Jem and the Holograms
as Chris Pratt
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Electric State
as Keats
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Mario (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Endgame
as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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