Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14794
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jake Curran 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.
Jake Curran appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jake. Fury is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jorma Taccone, James Watkins, Julius Berg and others, Jake Curran 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.
Fury (2014) as Medic #2 · Stardust (2007) as Bernard · Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) as WCKD Lieutenant
Career snapshot
Ranked #14794 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Fury
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Fury
Most frequent director
Jorma Taccone
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jorma Taccone
Most common genre
Drama
6 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
6.2
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Stardust, The New World, Oliver Twist — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Stardust, The New World, Oliver Twist.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 6.43 films | 6.83 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.94 films | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.11 film | 3.04 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 3.32 films |
| Crime | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.63 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 2.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004The Libertine
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sackville's Servant.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Fury
7.7 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
2026Clayface
The current state of the argument, as Patches.
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 Medic #2
Directed by David Ayer
as Bernard
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as WCKD Lieutenant
Directed by Wes Ball
as Barney
Directed by Roman Polanski
as Henry
Directed by Jorma Taccone
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
Medic #2
Fury (2014)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Medic #2 gives Jake Curran a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bernard
Stardust (2007)
Performance score7.2
Stardust asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bernard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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WCKD Lieutenant
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Performance score7.0
Maze Runner: The Death Cure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. WCKD Lieutenant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barney
Oliver Twist (2005)
Performance score6.7
Oliver Twist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barney 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 Medic #2
Start here. Fury is the clearest statement of what Jake Curran does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jake 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.
Oliver Twist (2005)
Keeps the drama register of Fury but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stardust (2007)
Keeps the family register of Oliver Twist but asks for a colder reading of it.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Stardust but asks for a colder reading of it.
Over Your Dead Body (2026)
Keeps the action register of Maze Runner: The Death Cure but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Oliver Twist
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably The New World
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Stardust
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Fury
Colin Teague
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Saul Dibb
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey's End
Wes Ball
Director
1 film together
Notably Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Julius Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Owners
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Clayface
Jorma Taccone
Director
1 film together
Notably Over Your Dead Body
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FuryMatthew 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
StardustWes Ball
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maze Runner: The Death CureRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oliver TwistJorma Taccone
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over Your Dead BodyTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The New WorldRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin HoodSaul Dibb
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey's EndJulius Berg
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OwnersColin Teague
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's CurseJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ClayfaceSix 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
Fury
as Medic #2
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardust
as Bernard
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fury
as Medic #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Robin Hood
as Distinctive Man
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fury
as Medic #2
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. Jake Curran 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 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
Stardust
as Bernard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
as WCKD Lieutenant
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stardust
as Bernard
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Owners
as Gaz
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
as WCKD Lieutenant
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
as WCKD Lieutenant
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fury
as Medic #2
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fury
as Medic #2
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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