Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1192
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jefferson Hall 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.
Jefferson Hall appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jefferson. 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alex Garland, Christopher Nolan, David Gordon Green and others, Jefferson Hall 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 Haakon Chevalier · Oppenheimer (2023) as Haakon Chevalier · Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as First Order Officer
Career snapshot
Ranked #1192 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2009–2028
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
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
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Sherlock Holmes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. Elden Ring, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | — | — | 8.62 films |
| Action | 7.41 film | 7.51 film | 3.72 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | 8.32 films |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Sherlock Holmes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Guard.
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
2028Elden Ring
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.
7 of 7 films
as Haakon Chevalier
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Haakon Chevalier
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as First Order Officer
Directed by J.J. Abrams
as Well-dressed Man
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Young Guard
Directed by Guy Ritchie
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 12 of 12 titles · 12 total credits · active 2009–2028
Elden Ring
2028 · Actor
Oppenheimer
2023 · Haakon Chevalier
The Chemistry of Death
2023 · TV · Ben Anders
House of the Dragon
2022 · TV · Lord Jason Lannister / Ser Tyland Lannister
Tenet
2020 · Well-dressed Man
Devs
2020 · TV · Pete
Halloween
2018 · Aaron Korey
Taboo
2017 · TV · Thorne Geary
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · First Order Officer
Vikings
2013 · TV · Torstein
Sherlock Holmes
2009 · Young Guard
Emma
2009 · TV · Robert Martin
The defining work
#1
Haakon Chevalier
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Haakon Chevalier gives Jefferson Hall a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Haakon Chevalier
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Haakon Chevalier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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First Order Officer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Performance score7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. First Order Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Well-dressed Man
Tenet (2020)
Performance score7.2
Tenet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Well-dressed Man 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 Haakon Chevalier
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Jefferson Hall 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 Jefferson 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.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Keeps the action register of Sherlock Holmes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tenet (2020)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars: The Force Awakens but asks for a colder reading of it.
Oppenheimer (2023)
Same director as Tenet, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Sherlock Holmes
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Halloween
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Elden Ring
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
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together · 8.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Force AwakensGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sherlock HolmesDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HalloweenAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elden RingSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Jefferson Hall
Where this journey starts
Director
Christopher Nolan
3 collaborations, averaging 8.2
Film
Oppenheimer
Their highest-rated film together (2023)
Performer
Matt Damon
Shares the frame in Oppenheimer
Film
Interstellar
Where Matt goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Michael Caine
Three steps from where you began
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 Haakon Chevalier
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 Haakon Chevalier
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 Haakon Chevalier
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
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. Jefferson Hall 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 | #366 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 | Haakon Chevalier — 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.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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 Haakon Chevalier
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sherlock Holmes
as Young Guard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sherlock Holmes
as Young Guard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Haakon Chevalier
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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