Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10507
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jeremy Bobb 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.
Jeremy Bobb appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. Cabrini 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 drama, history, western. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alejandro Monteverde, Gabe Polsky, Matt Sobel and others, Jeremy Bobb 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.
Cabrini (2024) as Calloway · You Don't Know Jack (2010) as David Rivlin · The Drop (2014) as Stevie
Career snapshot
Ranked #10507 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2010–2024
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Cabrini
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Cabrini
Most frequent director
Alejandro Monteverde
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alejandro Monteverde
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kitchen, The Wolf Hour, Under the Silver Lake — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Kitchen, The Wolf Hour, Under the Silver Lake.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.54 films | 6.15 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.31 film | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | — |
| Crime | 6.54 films | 5.62 films |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as David Rivlin.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2024Cabrini
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. The current state of the argument, as Calloway.
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 Calloway
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde
as David Rivlin
Directed by Barry Levinson
as Stevie
Directed by Michaël R. Roskam
as Honest Frank
Directed by Unknown
as Donald Lewis
Directed by Zach Braff
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
Calloway
Cabrini (2024)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Calloway gives Jeremy Bobb a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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David Rivlin
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Performance score6.9
You Don't Know Jack asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David Rivlin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Stevie
The Drop (2014)
Performance score6.7
The Drop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stevie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Honest Frank
South of Heaven (2021)
Performance score6.6
South of Heaven asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Honest Frank 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 Calloway
Start here. Cabrini is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Bobb does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeremy 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.
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Cabrini but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Drop (2014)
Keeps the drama register of You Don't Know Jack but asks for a colder reading of it.
Going in Style (2017)
Keeps the crime register of The Drop but asks for a colder reading of it.
South of Heaven (2021)
Keeps the crime register of Going in Style but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably You Don't Know Jack
Michaël R. Roskam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Drop
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Going in Style
David Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Under the Silver Lake
Julian Higgins
Director
1 film together
Notably God's Country
Matt Sobel
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodnight Mommy
Gabe Polsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Butcher's Crossing
Alejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together
Notably Cabrini
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CabriniBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Don't Know JackMichaël R. Roskam
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DropZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going in StyleMatt Sobel
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodnight MommyDavid Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Under the Silver LakeGabe Polsky
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Butcher's CrossingJulian Higgins
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
God's CountrySix 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
Cabrini
as Calloway
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cabrini
as Calloway
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cabrini
as Calloway
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Drop
as Stevie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Cabrini
as Calloway
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. Jeremy Bobb 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.
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
9 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
Cabrini
as Calloway
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Goodnight Mommy
as Gary
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cabrini
as Calloway
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Goodnight Mommy
as Gary
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Cabrini
as Calloway
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Butcher's Crossing
as Fred Schneider
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Drop
as Stevie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cabrini
as Calloway
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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