Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5146
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jaeden Martell 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.
Jaeden Martell appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jaeden. The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Mooney, John Lee Hancock, Peter Sollett and others, Jaeden Martell 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 Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too (2019) as Self · Knives Out (2019) as Jacob Thrombey · The Book of Henry (2017) as Henry Carpenter
Career snapshot
Ranked #5146 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
Most frequent director
Andy Muschietti
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andy Muschietti
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Knives Out, The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends, Low Tide — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Knives Out, The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends, Low Tide.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.57 films | 6.83 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | 6.94 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.65 films | 6.43 films |
| Crime | 8.01 film | — |
| Romance | 5.72 films | — |
| Horror | 7.02 films | 5.94 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Playing It Cool
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 6 Year Old Me.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
8.3 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 Balthazar.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Jacob Thrombey
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Henry Carpenter
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
as Bill Denbrough
Directed by Andy Muschietti
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
Self
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too (2019)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Jaeden Martell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Balthazar
Our Hero, Balthazar (2026)
Performance score7.9
Our Hero, Balthazar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Balthazar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jacob Thrombey
Knives Out (2019)
Performance score7.8
Knives Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jacob Thrombey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Henry Carpenter
The Book of Henry (2017)
Performance score7.8
The Book of Henry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henry Carpenter 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 Self
Start here. The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too is the clearest statement of what Jaeden Martell does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jaeden 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 Book of Henry (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
It (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Book of Henry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Knives Out (2019)
A deliberate change of key after It — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Our Hero, Balthazar (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Knives Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together
Notably It
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably St. Vincent
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Aloha
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Henry
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Knives Out
Severin Fiala
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lodge
Peter Sollett
Director
1 film together
Notably Metal Lords
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Kyle Mooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Y2K
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Muschietti
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
ItRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knives OutColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of HenryTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
St. VincentPeter Sollett
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Metal LordsJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Harrigan's PhoneSeverin Fiala
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 LodgeCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlohaKyle Mooney
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Y2KSix 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
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Aloha
as Mitchell Woodside
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 Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
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. Jaeden Martell 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
10 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
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Aloha
as Mitchell Woodside
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Arcadian
as Joseph
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Metal Lords
as Kevin Schlieb
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Knives Out
as Jacob Thrombey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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