Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3370
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Christian Convery 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.
Christian Convery appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Christian. Frankenstein 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 comedy, music, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeremy Garelick, David Robert Mitchell, Guillermo del Toro and others, Christian Convery 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.
Frankenstein (2025) as Young Victor Frankenstein · Beautiful Boy (2018) as Jasper Sheff · Barron's Cove (2025) as Ethan Chambers
Career snapshot
Ranked #3370 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Frankenstein
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Frankenstein
Most frequent director
Jeremy Garelick
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jeremy Garelick
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.1
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Playing with Fire, Heaven, The Package — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Playing with Fire, Heaven, The Package.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 6.92 films | 6.73 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 4.96 films |
| Crime | — | 6.52 films |
| Horror | — | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018The Package
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jake Floyd.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Beautiful Boy
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
The current state of the argument, as Brian Platt.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Young Victor Frankenstein
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Ethan Chambers
Directed by Unknown
as Fregley (voice)
Directed by Luke Cormican
as Brian Platt
Directed by David Robert Mitchell
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
Jasper Sheff
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jasper Sheff gives Christian Convery a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Victor Frankenstein
Frankenstein (2025)
Performance score7.4
Frankenstein asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Victor Frankenstein is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ethan Chambers
Barron's Cove (2025)
Performance score7.1
Barron's Cove asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ethan Chambers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fregley (voice)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)
Performance score7.1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fregley (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 Jasper Sheff
Start here. Beautiful Boy is the clearest statement of what Christian Convery does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Christian 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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Beautiful Boy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Frankenstein (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Barron's Cove (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Frankenstein but asks for a colder reading of it.
The End of Oak Street (2026)
Keeps the thriller register of Barron's Cove but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom
Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Package
Paul Shapiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Heaven
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Playing with Fire
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Aliens Stole My Body
Swinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Cocaine Bear
Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever
Osgood Perkins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Monkey
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Frankenstein
David Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The End of Oak Street
Jeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together
Notably Rolling Loud
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrankensteinRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VenomLuke Cormican
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin FeverAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Playing with FireDavid Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The End of Oak StreetSwinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy KidPaul Shapiro
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeavenOsgood Perkins
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 MonkeyElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cocaine BearJake Szymanski
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 PackageSean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aliens Stole My BodyJeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rolling LoudSix 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
Beautiful Boy
as Jasper Sheff
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 Tiger Rising
as Rob Horton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Beautiful Boy
as Jasper Sheff
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Venom
as Joey - 8 Year Old Boy (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Beautiful Boy
as Jasper Sheff
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. Christian Convery 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
8 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
Frankenstein
as Young Victor Frankenstein
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Frankenstein
as Young Victor Frankenstein
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Tiger Rising
as Rob Horton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The End of Oak Street
as Brian Platt
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Venom
as Joey - 8 Year Old Boy (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Venom
as Joey - 8 Year Old Boy (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Barron's Cove
as Ethan Chambers
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
as Fregley (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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