Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12591
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jason Harris 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.
Jason Harris appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Internet Famous is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Donkin, Carlos Saldanha, Justin Lin and others, Jason Harris 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.
Internet Famous (2026) as Frank · Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006) as Chad Dickson (voice) · Fast & Furious 6 (2013) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12591 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Internet Famous
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Internet Famous
Most frequent director
John Donkin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With John Donkin
Most common genre
Family
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.6
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
2020s
8.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Internet Famous, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.3
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. Everybody's Fine, Space Chimps, Reservation Road.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.72 films | — | — |
| Action | 8.01 film | 6.12 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.12 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.52 films | 8.32 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chad Dickson (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Internet Famous
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Frank.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Frank
Directed by Unknown
as Chad Dickson (voice)
Directed by Tom Warburton
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Justin Lin
as Cab Rider #1
Directed by Kirk Jones
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Donkin
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
Frank
Internet Famous (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Frank gives Jason Harris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chad Dickson (voice)
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006)
Performance score8.0
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chad Dickson (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Performance score6.7
Fast & Furious 6 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cab Rider #1
Everybody's Fine (2009)
Performance score6.7
Everybody's Fine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cab Rider #1 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 Frank
Start here. Internet Famous is the clearest statement of what Jason Harris does — accessible, 13 minutes, and rated 10.0 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.
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006)
Keeps the comedy register of Internet Famous but asks for a colder reading of it.
Everybody's Fine (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Everybody's Fine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Fast & Furious 6 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Warburton
Director
1 film together
Notably Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
Terry George
Director
1 film together
Notably Reservation Road
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Chimps
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Everybody's Fine
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nutcracker
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious 6
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Rio 2
John Donkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tom Warburton
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.Justin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious 6Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everybody's FineJohn Donkin
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 Ice Age Adventures of Buck WildChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rio 2Terry George
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reservation RoadAndrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The NutcrackerKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space ChimpsSix 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
Internet Famous
as Frank
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Epic
as (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Internet Famous
as Frank
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fast & Furious 6
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Internet Famous
as Frank
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 Harris 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
20 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in family, 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
Internet Famous
as Frank
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Internet Famous
as Frank
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Chad Dickson (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Internet Famous
as Frank
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Chad Dickson (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O.
as Chad Dickson (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Space Chimps
as Guard (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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