Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#22
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dwayne Johnson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Dwayne is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dwayne Johnson appears in 61 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dwayne. John Cena's Greatest Rivalries is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 adventure, family, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Thomas Kail, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Jake Kasdan and others, Dwayne Johnson 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.
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries (2022) as The Rock · My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson (2021) as The Rock · WrestleMania XL Sunday (2024) as The Rock
Career snapshot
Ranked #22 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
61
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Action
35 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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. Moana, The Roast of Kevin Hart, Jumanji: Open World — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 23 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. Planet 51, Race to Witch Mountain, Get Smart.
Most productive era
2010s
26 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 | 6.72 films | 5.95 films | 7.55 films |
| Action | 6.08 films | 6.419 films | 7.28 films |
| Thriller | 6.24 films | 6.59 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.16 films | 6.512 films | 6.512 films |
| Crime | 6.13 films | 6.77 films | 7.02 films |
| Romance | — | 6.42 films | — |
| Horror | 5.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mathayus / The Scorpion King.
First Nutevio masterpiece
2021My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
10.0 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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Dr. Smolder Bravestone.
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.
61 of 61 films
as Maui
Directed by Thomas Kail
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 83 titles · 102 total credits · active 1993–2026
The Roast of Kevin Hart
2026 · Self - Roaster
Moana
2026 · Maui · Producer
Jumanji: Open World
2026 · Dr. Smolder Bravestone · Producer
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026 · TV · Self (archive footage)
Zootopia 2
2025 · Zeke AKA That Dik-Dik Stuck in that Tuba (voice)
The Smashing Machine
2025 · Mark Kerr · Producer
WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special
2025 · The Rock
Four Down
2025 · Executive Producer
WWE Raw Top 10
2025 · TV · The Rock (archive footage)
WWE: Unreal
2025 · TV · The Rock
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · TV · Self
WWE's Greatest Moments
2025 · TV · The Rock
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · TV · Self
RoboForce: The Animated Series
2025 · TV · Executive Producer
Moana 2
2024 · Maui (voice) · Executive Producer
Red One
2024 · Callum Drift · Producer
WrestleMania XL Sunday
2024 · The Rock
Adam Ray Is Dr. Phil UNLEASHED
2024 · Self
WrestleMania XL Saturday
2024 · The Rock
Who Killed WCW?
2024 · TV · Self · Executive Producer
Mr. McMahon
2024 · TV · Self
Fast X
2023 · Luke Hobbs (uncredited)
Once Upon a Studio
2023 · Maui (voice)
Player 54: Chasing the XFL Dream
2023 · TV · Self
The defining work
#1
The Rock
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries (2022)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Rock gives Dwayne Johnson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Rock
My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson (2021)
Performance score9.1
My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Rock is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Rock
WrestleMania XL Sunday (2024)
Performance score8.5
WrestleMania XL Sunday asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Rock is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maui
Moana (2026)
Performance score8.2
Moana asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maui 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 The Rock
Start here. John Cena's Greatest Rivalries is the clearest statement of what Dwayne Johnson does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dwayne 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.
My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson (2021)
Keeps the documentary register of John Cena's Greatest Rivalries but asks for a colder reading of it.
WrestleMania XL Sunday (2024)
A deliberate change of key after My Way: The Life and Legacy of Pat Patterson — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
WrestleMania XL Saturday (2024)
Same director as WrestleMania XL Sunday, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Moana (2026)
A deliberate change of key after WrestleMania XL Saturday — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Kasdan
Director
4 films together
Notably Red One
Andy Fickman
Director
3 films together
Notably The Game Plan
Brad Peyton
Director
3 films together
Notably Rampage
Justin Lin
Director
2 films together
Notably Fast Five
Jon M. Chu
Director
2 films together
Notably G.I. Joe: Retaliation
F. Gary Gray
Director
2 films together
Notably The Fate of the Furious
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
2 films together
Notably Jungle Cruise
Paul Levesque
Director
2 films together
Notably WrestleMania XL Sunday
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mummy Returns
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Scorpion King
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rundown
Kevin Bray
Director
1 film together
Notably Walking Tall
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Doom
Phil Joanou
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridiron Gang
Robert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together
Notably Reno 911!: Miami
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Smart
Tyler Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Why Did I Get Married Too?
Michael Lembeck
Director
1 film together
Notably Tooth Fairy
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Faster
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Guys
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Pain & Gain
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Snitch
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Hercules
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Furious 7
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably Moana
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Baywatch
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Stephen Merchant
Director
1 film together
Notably Fighting with My Family
Oz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Free Guy
John Cena
Director
1 film together
Notably John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Studio
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Adam Ray
Director
1 film together
Notably Adam Ray Is Dr. Phil UNLEASHED
David G. Derrick Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Moana 2
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Smashing Machine
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Zootopia 2
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Roast of Kevin Hart
Thomas Kail
Director
1 film together
Notably Moana
Catherine Lagaʻaia
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Rena Owen
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
John Tui
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Frankie Adams
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Jemaine Clement
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Emma Puahi-Shapazian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Amaya Masoli
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Sam Puefua
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Sione Milford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Kapeneta Te'o-Tafiti
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Eric Scanlan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Moses Goods
Actor
1 film together
Notably Moana
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
4 films together · 5.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Red OneBrad Peyton
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RampageAndy Fickman
Director
3 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Game PlanPaul Levesque
Director
2 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
WrestleMania XL SundayJaume Collet-Serra
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jungle CruiseJustin Lin
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fast FiveF. Gary Gray
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Fate of the FuriousJon M. Chu
Director
2 films together · 5.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
G.I. Joe: RetaliationJohn Cena
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Cena's Greatest RivalriesThomas Kail
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoanaByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zootopia 2Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a StudioJohn Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoanaShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free GuyAdam Ray
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adam Ray Is Dr. Phil UNLEASHEDLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furious 7David G. Derrick Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Moana 2Phil Joanou
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridiron GangStephen Merchant
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fighting with My FamilyDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawStephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mummy ReturnsTyler Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Why Did I Get Married Too?Peter Berg
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 RundownBenny Safdie
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 Smashing MachineGeorge Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FasterOz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Rock: A One-Time SpecialMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pain & GainAdam McKay
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 Other GuysKevin Bray
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walking TallPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SmartBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Roast of Kevin HartSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaywatchRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnitchBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HerculesRobert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reno 911!: MiamiChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Scorpion KingMichael Lembeck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tooth FairyAndrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DoomSix 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
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Moana
as Maui
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zootopia 2
as Zeke AKA That Dik-Dik Stuck in that Tuba (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
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. Dwayne Johnson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.2 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #670 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 7.9 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Thomas Kail | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Screen presence, Physical performance | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Maui — Moana | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Moana | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Fantasy Movies, Adventure Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
35 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
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Moana
as Maui
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zootopia 2
as Zeke AKA That Dik-Dik Stuck in that Tuba (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
John Cena's Greatest Rivalries
as The Rock
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Red One
as Callum Drift
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Once Upon a Studio
as Maui (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Moana
as Maui
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 2 Nutevio collections
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