Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12012
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jed Rees represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Jed is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jed Rees appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jed. Deadpool is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 horror, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Daniel Stamm, Mark Steven Johnson, Doug Liman and others, Jed Rees 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.
Deadpool (2016) as Recruiter · Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019) as Self · Galaxy Quest (1999) as Teb
Career snapshot
Ranked #12012 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1996–2026
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Deadpool
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Deadpool
Most frequent director
Daniel Stamm
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Daniel Stamm
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.7
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary, American Made, Deadpool — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Galaxy Quest, Fear.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | — | 6.21 film | 6.91 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 7.91 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.22 films | 7.42 films | 6.41 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.91 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | — | 6.41 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Fear
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Knobby.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Deadpool
7.9 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
2026Lockbox
The current state of the argument, as James Light.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Recruiter
Directed by Tim Miller
as Teb
Directed by Dean Parisot
as Louis Finkle
Directed by Doug Liman
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
Recruiter
Deadpool (2016)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Recruiter gives Jed Rees a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)
Performance score7.2
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Teb
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Performance score7.0
Galaxy Quest asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Teb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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James Light
Lockbox (2026)
Performance score6.8
Lockbox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. James Light 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 Recruiter
Start here. Deadpool is the clearest statement of what Jed Rees does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jed 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.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Keeps the comedy register of Deadpool but asks for a colder reading of it.
American Made (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Galaxy Quest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)
A deliberate change of key after American Made — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Lockbox (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Fear
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Galaxy Quest
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Elizabethtown
Tim Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Made
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Guaranteed
Daniel Stamm
Director
1 film together
Notably Lockbox
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeadpoolDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Galaxy QuestDaniel Stamm
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LockboxDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American MadeJames Foley
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FearMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, GuaranteedCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElizabethtownSix 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
Deadpool
as Recruiter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Elizabethtown
as Chuck Hasboro
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Deadpool
as Recruiter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Deadpool
as Recruiter
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. Jed Rees 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
30 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Deadpool
as Recruiter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Deadpool
as Recruiter
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Elizabethtown
as Chuck Hasboro
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fear
as Knobby
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool
as Recruiter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Deadpool
as Recruiter
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Made
as Louis Finkle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deadpool
as Recruiter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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