Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13057
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Christopher Jacot represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Christopher is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Christopher Jacot appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Christopher. Crowning at the Prom is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 tv movie, drama, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brandon Cronenberg, Marcos Siega, Christian Duguay and others, Christopher Jacot 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.
Crowning at the Prom (2026) as Craig · Possessor (2020) as Reid Parse · Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020) as Kevin
Career snapshot
Ranked #13057 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Crowning at the Prom
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Crowning at the Prom
Most frequent director
Brandon Cronenberg
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brandon Cronenberg
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.4
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Crowning at the Prom, Possessor, Is There a Killer in My Family? — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Chaos Theory, Boot Camp, Battle in Seattle.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.23 films | 3.81 film | 7.42 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 5.32 films | — | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | — | 5.81 film |
| Romance | 6.02 films | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 4.61 film | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Get Over It
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Peter Wong.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Craig.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Reid Parse
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg
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
Craig
Crowning at the Prom (2026)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Craig gives Christopher Jacot a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kevin
Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020)
Performance score6.9
Is There a Killer in My Family? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kevin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reid Parse
Possessor (2020)
Performance score6.5
Possessor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reid Parse is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chef
Getting to Know You (2020)
Performance score6.5
Getting to Know You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chef 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 Craig
Start here. Crowning at the Prom is the clearest statement of what Christopher Jacot does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Christopher 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.
Entropic (2019)
Same director as Crowning at the Prom, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020)
Same director as Entropic, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Possessor (2020)
Keeps the thriller register of Is There a Killer in My Family? but asks for a colder reading of it.
Getting to Know You (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Possessor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Over It
Rick Bota
Director
1 film together
Notably Hellraiser: Hellworld
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
Christian Duguay
Director
1 film together
Notably Boot Camp
Marcos Siega
Director
1 film together
Notably Chaos Theory
Brandon Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Possessor
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brandon Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PossessorMarcos Siega
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chaos TheoryStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleChristian Duguay
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boot CampTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get Over ItRick Bota
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hellraiser: HellworldSix 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
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer
as DJ / Ignacio / Kitchen Elf (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
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
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. Christopher Jacot 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
6 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
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer
as DJ / Ignacio / Kitchen Elf (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Is There a Killer in My Family?
as Kevin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Crowning at the Prom
as Craig
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Battle in Seattle
as Michael
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Getting to Know You
as Chef
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Get Over It
as Peter Wong
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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