Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5672
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hasan Minhaj 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.
Hasan Minhaj appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hasan. It Ends with Us is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. 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 Joachim Rønning, Pamela Adlon, Justin Baldoni and others, Hasan Minhaj 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.
It Ends with Us (2024) as Marshall · Dads (2019) as Self · No Hard Feelings (2023) as Doug Khan
Career snapshot
Ranked #5672 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
It Ends with Us
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
It Ends with Us
Most frequent director
Joachim Rønning
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joachim Rønning
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dads, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Rough Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Dads, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Rough Night.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 5.71 film | 6.33 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.12 films | 5.75 films |
| Romance | — | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017Rough Night
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Joe.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024It Ends with Us
7.0 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
2025TRON: Ares
The current state of the argument, as Ajay Singh.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Marshall
Directed by Justin Baldoni
as Self
Directed by Bryce Dallas Howard
as Doug Khan
Directed by Gene Stupnitsky
as Ajay Singh
Directed by Joachim Rønning
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
Marshall
It Ends with Us (2024)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marshall gives Hasan Minhaj a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Dads (2019)
Performance score6.8
Dads 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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Doug Khan
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Performance score6.6
No Hard Feelings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doug Khan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ajay Singh
TRON: Ares (2025)
Performance score6.5
TRON: Ares asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ajay Singh 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 Marshall
Start here. It Ends with Us is the clearest statement of what Hasan Minhaj does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hasan 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.
Dads (2019)
A deliberate change of key after It Ends with Us — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
No Hard Feelings (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Dads — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Babes (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of No Hard Feelings but asks for a colder reading of it.
TRON: Ares (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Babes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spy Who Dumped Me
Bryce Dallas Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dads
Justin Simien
Director
1 film together
Notably Haunted Mansion
Gene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together
Notably No Hard Feelings
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably It Ends with Us
Pamela Adlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Babes
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably TRON: Ares
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It Ends with UsBryce Dallas Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DadsGene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Hard FeelingsJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TRON: AresJustin Simien
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Haunted MansionSusanna Fogel
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 Spy Who Dumped MePamela Adlon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabesLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightSix 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
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Haunted Mansion
as Sketch Artist
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
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. Hasan Minhaj 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
7 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
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
TRON: Ares
as Ajay Singh
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Haunted Mansion
as Sketch Artist
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
TRON: Ares
as Ajay Singh
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
TRON: Ares
as Ajay Singh
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Haunted Mansion
as Sketch Artist
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
It Ends with Us
as Marshall
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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