Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1830
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jason Clarke represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Jason is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jason Clarke appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ben Richardson, John Krasinski, Kathryn Bigelow and others, Jason Clarke 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Roger Robb · Oppenheimer (2023) as Roger Robb · Mudbound (2017) as Henry McAllan
Career snapshot
Ranked #1830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
1998–2027
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Kathryn Bigelow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kathryn Bigelow
Most common genre
Drama
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.6
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
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Public Enemies, Death Race, Rabbit-Proof Fence — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
7 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. F.A.S.T., A Quiet Place Part III, A House of Dynamite.
Most productive era
2010s
18 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.92 films | 6.513 films | 7.17 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | 6.64 films | 3.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.31 film | 6.210 films | 5.18 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 6.81 film | 6.13 films | 4.84 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.53 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.82 films | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Twilight
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Cop.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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.
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.
33 of 33 films
as Roger Robb
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Roger Robb
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Malcolm
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Ed White
Directed by Damien Chazelle
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 38 titles · 40 total credits · active 1998–2027
F.A.S.T.
2027 · Actor
A Quiet Place Part III
2027 · Actor
A House of Dynamite
2025 · Admiral Mark Miller
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
2025 · TV · Alex Murdaugh
The Last Frontier
2025 · TV · Frank Remnick · Executive Producer
Oppenheimer
2023 · Roger Robb
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2023 · Lt. Barney Greenwald
The Better Angels
2022 · Tom Lincoln
Black Site
2022 · Hatchet · Producer
The Desperate Hour
2022 · Greg Minor (voice)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022 · TV · Jerry West
Silk Road
2021 · Rick Bowden
The Devil All the Time
2020 · Carl Henderson
Serenity
2019 · Frank Zariakas
Pet Sematary
2019 · Louis Creed
The Aftermath
2019 · Lewis Morgan
Catherine the Great
2019 · TV · Grigory Potemkin
Winchester
2018 · Dr. Eric Price
First Man
2018 · Ed White
All I See Is You
2017 · James
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 · Reinhard Heydrich
Mudbound
2017 · Henry McAllan
Everest
2015 · Rob Hall
Terminator Genisys
2015 · John Connor
The defining work
#1
Roger Robb
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Roger Robb gives Jason Clarke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Roger Robb
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roger Robb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Henry McAllan
Mudbound (2017)
Performance score7.7
Mudbound asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henry McAllan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Malcolm
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Performance score7.6
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Malcolm 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 Roger Robb
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Jason Clarke does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jason 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.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mudbound (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes but asks for a colder reading of it.
First Man (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Mudbound but asks for a colder reading of it.
Oppenheimer (2023)
Keeps the drama register of First Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Phillip Noyce
Director
2 films together
Notably Rabbit-Proof Fence
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
2 films together
Notably Zero Dark Thirty
Robert Benton
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Race
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Public Enemies
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Ami Canaan Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Texas Killing Fields
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably White House Down
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Gatsby
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight of Cups
Daniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Child 44
Alan Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Terminator Genisys
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Everest
Dee Rees
Director
1 film together
Notably Mudbound
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably All I See Is You
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably First Man
James Kent
Director
1 film together
Notably The Aftermath
Kevin Kölsch
Director
1 film together
Notably Pet Sematary
Steven Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Serenity
Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil All the Time
Tiller Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Silk Road
William Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Quiet Place Part III
Ben Richardson
Director
1 film together
Notably F.A.S.T.
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rami Malek
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Dylan Arnold
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerKathryn Bigelow
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Zero Dark ThirtyPhillip Noyce
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Rabbit-Proof FenceDee Rees
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MudboundBaz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great GatsbyMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dawn of the Planet of the ApesAntonio Campos
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil All the TimeDamien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First ManBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EverestMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Public EnemiesWilliam Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White House DownJames Kent
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 AftermathDaniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Child 44Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death RaceTiller Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silk RoadOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsRobert Benton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightAlan Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Terminator GenisysKevin Kölsch
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pet SemataryAmi Canaan Mann
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Texas Killing FieldsTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight of CupsSteven Knight
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SerenityMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All I See Is YouBen Richardson
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
F.A.S.T.John Krasinski
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Quiet Place Part IIISix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2024
Oppenheimer
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
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. Jason Clarke has known it for a long time.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #362 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Drama | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2023–2023 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Roger Robb — Oppenheimer | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Oppenheimer | The Dark Knight |
| 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, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy
Michael Caine 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
29 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
22 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
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
All I See Is You
as James
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
White House Down
as Stenz
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Roger Robb
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.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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