Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#55
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hugh Jackman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Hugh is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Hugh Jackman appears in 50 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hugh. The Prestige 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 comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joe Brumm, Kyle Balda, Michael Sarnoski and others, Hugh Jackman 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.
The Prestige (2006) as Robert Angier · On Broadway (2019) as Self · Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act (2022) as Self (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #55 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
50
2000–2027
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Prestige
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
On Broadway
Most frequent director
Shawn Levy
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Shawn Levy
Most common genre
Action
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
7.2
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Missing Link, Bad Education, On Broadway — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 21 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Australia, Deception.
Most productive era
2010s
21 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 | 7.84 films | 7.49 films | 6.84 films |
| Action | 6.57 films | 7.110 films | 7.32 films |
| Thriller | 7.13 films | 8.31 film | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.35 films | 6.67 films | 5.84 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | 7.33 films | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.54 films | — | 7.41 film |
| Horror | 6.32 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000X-Men
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Logan / Wolverine.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006The Prestige
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.
Most recent film
2027Bluey: The Movie
The current state of the argument, as (voice).
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.
50 of 50 films
as Robert Angier
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Robert Angier
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Keller Dover
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Logan / X-24
Directed by James Mangold
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 56 titles · 61 total credits · active 2000–2027
Bluey: The Movie
2027 · (voice)
The Sheep Detectives
2026 · George Hardy
The Death of Robin Hood
2026 · Robin Hood · Producer
Song Sung Blue
2025 · Mike Sardina
Journey Home, David Gulpilil
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · TV · Self
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Logan / Wolverine
Megafauna: What Killed Australia's Giants?
2024 · TV · Self - Narrator (voice)
Faraway Downs
2023 · TV · Drover
Koala Man
2023 · TV · Big Greg (voice)
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Son
2022 · Peter · Executive Producer
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022 · TV · Self
Human Resources
2022 · TV · Dante (voice)
Free Guy
2021 · Masked Player in Alley (voice)
Reminiscence
2021 · Nicolas 'Nick' Bannister
Missing Link
2019 · Sir Lionel Frost (voice)
Bad Education
2019 · Frank Tassone
On Broadway
2019 · Self
Deadpool 2
2018 · Logan / Wolverine (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Front Runner
2018 · Gary Hart
The Greatest Showman
2017 · P. T. Barnum
Logan
2017 · Logan / X-24
The defining work
#1
Robert Angier
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Robert Angier gives Hugh Jackman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Robert Angier
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score8.9
The Prestige asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Robert Angier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Keller Dover
Prisoners (2013)
Performance score8.7
Prisoners asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Keller Dover is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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P. T. Barnum
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Performance score8.5
The Greatest Showman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. P. T. Barnum 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 Robert Angier
Start here. The Prestige is the clearest statement of what Hugh Jackman does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hugh 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 Prestige (2006)
Same director as The Prestige, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Prisoners (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Prestige but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Prisoners but asks for a colder reading of it.
Logan (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Greatest Showman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
4 films together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
Bryan Singer
Director
3 films together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
James Mangold
Director
3 films together
Notably Logan
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Prestige
Brett Ratner
Director
2 films together
Notably X-Men: The Last Stand
Thomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Tony Goldwyn
Director
1 film together
Notably Someone Like You...
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably Van Helsing
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoop
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fountain
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Feet
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably Australia
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Butter
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Guardians
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Denis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together
Notably Prisoners
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Pan
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together
Notably Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddie the Eagle
Michael Gracey
Director
1 film together
Notably The Greatest Showman
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Front Runner
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool 2
Cory Finley
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Education
Chris Butler
Director
1 film together
Notably Missing Link
Lisa Joy
Director
1 film together
Notably Reminiscence
Florian Zeller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Son
Trisha Morton-Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey Home, David Gulpilil
Craig Brewer
Director
1 film together
Notably Song Sung Blue
Michael Sarnoski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Robin Hood
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sheep Detectives
Joe Brumm
Director
1 film together
Notably Bluey: The Movie
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christian Bale
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Piper Perabo
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Rebecca Hall
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Scarlett Johansson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Samantha Mahurin
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
David Bowie
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Andy Serkis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Daniel Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Jim Piddock
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christopher Neame
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Mark Ryan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shawn Levy
Director
4 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineBryan Singer
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastJames Mangold
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
LoganChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The PrestigeBrett Ratner
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
X-Men: The Last StandDenis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PrisonersMichael Gracey
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Greatest ShowmanKyle Balda
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 Sheep DetectivesDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me and Earl and the Dying GirlCraig Brewer
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Song Sung BluePeter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the GuardiansTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassDexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eddie the EagleChris Butler
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Missing LinkDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FountainMichael Sarnoski
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of Robin HoodFlorian Zeller
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SonThomas C. Grane
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Mutant WatchCory Finley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad EducationBaz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AustraliaWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScoopLisa Joy
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ReminiscenceGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men Origins: WolverineGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy FeetStephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Van HelsingJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PanTony Goldwyn
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Someone Like You...Jason Reitman
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 Front RunnerJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ButterJoe Brumm
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bluey: The MovieTrisha Morton-Thomas
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey Home, David GulpililSix 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 Prestige
as Robert Angier
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Song Sung Blue
as Mike Sardina
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Prestige
as Robert Angier
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool 2
as Logan / Wolverine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Prestige
as Robert Angier
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. Hugh Jackman 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 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #414 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Screen presence, Charisma | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2006–2006 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Robert Angier — The Prestige | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Prestige | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Michael Caine
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
27 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
19 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
The Prestige
as Robert Angier
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Prestige
as Robert Angier
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Song Sung Blue
as Mike Sardina
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Reminiscence
as Nicolas 'Nick' Bannister
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Logan
as Logan / X-24
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Death of Robin Hood
as Robin Hood
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Eddie the Eagle
as Bronson Peary
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Prestige
as Robert Angier
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.
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