Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3585
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ezra Miller 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.
Ezra Miller appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ezra. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Muschietti, David Yates, Mary Harron and others, Ezra Miller 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.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) as The Flash / Barry Allen · The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) as Patrick · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) as Credence Barebone
Career snapshot
Ranked #3585 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2012–2023
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Most frequent director
David Yates
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Yates
Most common genre
Adventure
7 titles
Average runtime
2h 5m
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
6.3
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. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Justice League, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 6 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. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Justice League, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 7.81 film | 5.32 films |
| Action | 6.02 films | 6.53 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.71 film |
| Comedy | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | 5.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Patrick.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.2 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
2023The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
12 of 12 films
as The Flash / Barry Allen
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Barry Allen / The Flash
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as Credence Barebone
Directed by David Yates
From the library
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The defining work
#1
The Flash / Barry Allen
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Flash / Barry Allen gives Ezra Miller a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patrick
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Performance score8.1
The Perks of Being a Wallflower asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patrick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barry Allen / The Flash
The Flash (2023)
Performance score7.3
The Flash asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barry Allen / The Flash is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster (2023)
Performance score7.3
The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Flash / Barry Allen
Start here. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest statement of what Ezra Miller does — accessible, 242 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ezra 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Zack Snyder's Justice League — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Perks of Being a Wallflower — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Flash (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Flash — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Yates
Director
3 films together
Notably Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Zack Snyder
Director
2 films together
Notably Zack Snyder's Justice League
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably Trainwreck
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Suicide Squad
Mary Harron
Director
1 film together
Notably Dalíland
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flash
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Yates
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemZack Snyder
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueStephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perks of Being a WallflowerAndy Muschietti
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 FlashMary Harron
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DalílandDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide SquadJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrainwreckSix 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
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
as Patrick
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dalíland
as Young Dalí
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Suicide Squad
as The Flash
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
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. Ezra Miller 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dalíland
as Young Dalí
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
as Credence Barebone
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Flash
as Barry Allen / The Flash
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dalíland
as Young Dalí
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as The Flash / Barry Allen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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