Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15860
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jerrod Carmichael 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.
Jerrod Carmichael appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jerrod. Poor Things is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 romance, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jerrod Carmichael, Jonah Hill, Michael Bay and others, Jerrod Carmichael 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.
Poor Things (2023) as Harry Astley · mid90s (2018) as Security Guard (uncredited) · Ferdinand (2017) as Paco (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #15860 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2014–2023
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Poor Things
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Poor Things
Most frequent director
Nicholas Stoller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Nicholas Stoller
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.3
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Poor Things, On the Count of Three — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. mid90s, Transformers: The Last Knight, The Disaster Artist.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.93 films | 6.51 film |
| Action | 6.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.66 films | 7.02 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 7.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Neighbors
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Garf.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2023Poor Things
7.6 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 Harry Astley.
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 Harry Astley
Directed by Unknown
as Security Guard (uncredited)
Directed by Jonah Hill
as Val
Directed by Jerrod Carmichael
as Paco (voice)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
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
Harry Astley
Poor Things (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Harry Astley gives Jerrod Carmichael a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Security Guard (uncredited)
mid90s (2018)
Performance score7.3
mid90s asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Security Guard (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Val
On the Count of Three (2022)
Performance score7.2
On the Count of Three asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Val is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paco (voice)
Ferdinand (2017)
Performance score7.1
Ferdinand asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paco (voice) 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 Harry Astley
Start here. Poor Things is the clearest statement of what Jerrod Carmichael does — accessible, 141 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jerrod 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.
Ferdinand (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Poor Things but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Ferdinand but asks for a colder reading of it.
mid90s (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of The Disaster Artist but asks for a colder reading of it.
On the Count of Three (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of mid90s but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together
Notably Neighbors
Lorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together
Notably The Meddler
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferdinand
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: The Last Knight
Jonah Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably mid90s
Jerrod Carmichael
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Count of Three
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
NeighborsJonah Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
mid90sCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerdinandJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistJerrod Carmichael
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the Count of ThreeMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: The Last KnightLorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MeddlerSix 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
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Disaster Artist
as Actor Friend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
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. Jerrod Carmichael 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
On the Count of Three
as Val
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Poor Things
as Harry Astley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Jimmy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
On the Count of Three
as Val
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Meddler
as Freddy / Fredo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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