Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#32041
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jacob Browne 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.
Jacob Browne appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jacob. Flamin' Hot is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eva Longoria, Taylor Sheridan, Vincent D'Onofrio and others, Jacob Browne 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.
Flamin' Hot (2023) as Post Office Clerk · Shot Caller (2017) as AD Seg Guard · The Space Between Us (2017) as New Mexico State Policeman
Career snapshot
Ranked #32041 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2009–2024
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Flamin' Hot
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Flamin' Hot
Most frequent director
Eva Longoria
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eva Longoria
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Bleeding Love, Flamin' Hot, Those Who Wish Me Dead — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | — | 6.57 films | 6.92 films |
| Action | — | 5.73 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.53 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.12 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009The Men Who Stare at Goats
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lieutenant Boone.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Flamin' Hot
7.6 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
2024Bleeding Love
The current state of the argument, as Shiloh.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Post Office Clerk
Directed by Eva Longoria
as AD Seg Guard
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
as New Mexico State Policeman
Directed by Unknown
as Waiter in Dining Car
Directed by Susanna White
as Marshal (uncredited)
Directed by Taylor Sheridan
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Post Office Clerk
Flamin' Hot (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Post Office Clerk gives Jacob Browne a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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AD Seg Guard
Shot Caller (2017)
Performance score6.9
Shot Caller asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. AD Seg Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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New Mexico State Policeman
The Space Between Us (2017)
Performance score6.9
The Space Between Us asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. New Mexico State Policeman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Waiter in Dining Car
Woman Walks Ahead (2018)
Performance score6.7
Woman Walks Ahead asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Waiter in Dining Car 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 Post Office Clerk
Start here. Flamin' Hot is the clearest statement of what Jacob Browne does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jacob 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.
Shot Caller (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Flamin' Hot but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Space Between Us (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Shot Caller but asks for a colder reading of it.
Woman Walks Ahead (2018)
Keeps the drama register of The Space Between Us but asks for a colder reading of it.
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Woman Walks Ahead — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Grant Heslov
Director
1 film together
Notably The Men Who Stare at Goats
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Independence Day: Resurgence
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Shot Caller
Susanna White
Director
1 film together
Notably Woman Walks Ahead
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Ideal Home
Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Taylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Those Who Wish Me Dead
Eva Longoria
Director
1 film together
Notably Flamin' Hot
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eva Longoria
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flamin' HotRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shot CallerSusanna White
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woman Walks AheadTaylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Those Who Wish Me DeadStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ideal HomeVincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidGrant Heslov
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Men Who Stare at GoatsRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Independence Day: ResurgenceSix 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
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shot Caller
as AD Seg Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
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. Jacob Browne 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Shot Caller
as AD Seg Guard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
War on Everyone
as Bunny
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Flamin' Hot
as Post Office Clerk
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Kid
as Bartender
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Woman Walks Ahead
as Waiter in Dining Car
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Men Who Stare at Goats
as Lieutenant Boone
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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