Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#25488
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jesse Camacho represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Jesse is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jesse Camacho appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jesse. Scream VI is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 comedy, crime, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Alves, John Daniel, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and others, Jesse Camacho 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.
Scream VI (2023) as Frat Dude · Kick-Ass 2 (2013) as Onlooker · Good Sam (2019) as Josh
Career snapshot
Ranked #25488 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1994–2026
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Scream VI
Average Nutevio score
4.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Scream VI
Most frequent director
Kevin Alves
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kevin Alves
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
2010s
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Good Sam, Kick-Ass 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. The NeverEnding Story III.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.01 film | 0.01 film |
| Action | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | 4.51 film | 6.01 film | 0.02 films |
| Crime | — | 6.41 film | 3.52 films |
| Romance | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Beaver Boy (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Scream VI
6.9 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
2026Sidekicks
The current state of the argument, as Strong-Man.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Frat Dude
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Strong-Man
Directed by John Daniel
as Josh
Directed by Kate Miles Melville
as Onlooker
Directed by Jeff Wadlow
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
Frat Dude
Scream VI (2023)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Frat Dude gives Jesse Camacho a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lucky Weekend
Lucky Weekend (2026)
Performance score6.5
Lucky Weekend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Strong-Man
Sidekicks (2026)
Performance score6.5
Sidekicks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Strong-Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Josh
Good Sam (2019)
Performance score6.5
Good Sam asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Josh 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 Frat Dude
Start here. Scream VI is the clearest statement of what Jesse Camacho does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jesse 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.
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
Keeps the crime register of Scream VI but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Sam (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Kick-Ass 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Lucky Weekend (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Good Sam but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sidekicks (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Lucky Weekend but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter MacDonald
Director
1 film together
Notably The NeverEnding Story III
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass 2
Kate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Sam
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream VI
John Daniel
Director
1 film together
Notably Sidekicks
Kevin Alves
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucky Weekend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scream VIJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-Ass 2Kate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good SamPeter MacDonald
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The NeverEnding Story IIIKevin Alves
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucky WeekendJohn Daniel
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SidekicksSix 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
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Good Sam
as Josh
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kick-Ass 2
as Onlooker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
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. Jesse Camacho 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
32 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
4 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
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Good Sam
as Josh
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scream VI
as Frat Dude
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kick-Ass 2
as Onlooker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kick-Ass 2
as Onlooker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Good Sam
as Josh
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Good Sam
as Josh
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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