Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7899
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jim O'Heir 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.
Jim O'Heir appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jim. The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 action, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with William Butler, Justine Bateman, A.J. Tesler and others, Jim O'Heir 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.
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation (2020) as Jerry Gergich · A Parks and Recreation Special (2020) as Jerry Gergich · Bosco (2024) as Bo
Career snapshot
Ranked #7899 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
Most frequent director
William Butler
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With William Butler
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Accepted — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Accepted.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | — | 5.94 films | 4.94 films |
| Action | — | 6.71 film | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.81 film | 3.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 5.24 films | 4.74 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Accepted
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mr. Schrader.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
8.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Kurt.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Milton Wyrick
Directed by Drew Goddard
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
Jerry Gergich
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation (2020)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jerry Gergich gives Jim O'Heir a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jerry Gergich
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020)
Performance score7.4
A Parks and Recreation Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry Gergich is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bo
Bosco (2024)
Performance score6.7
Bosco asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nick
Where Are You, Christmas? (2023)
Performance score6.7
Where Are You, Christmas? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nick 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 Jerry Gergich
Start here. The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation is the clearest statement of what Jim O'Heir does — accessible, 20 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jim 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.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Bad Times at the El Royale — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Where Are You, Christmas? (2023)
A deliberate change of key after A Parks and Recreation Special — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bosco (2024)
Same director as Where Are You, Christmas?, 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.
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Accepted
Lorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together
Notably Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Drew Goddard
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Times at the El Royale
Melora Walters
Director
1 film together
Notably Drowning
Christopher Ray
Director
1 film together
Notably 2nd Chance for Christmas
Morgan Sackett
Director
1 film together
Notably A Parks and Recreation Special
A.J. Tesler
Director
1 film together
Notably Hero Mode
Justine Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably Violet
William Butler
Director
1 film together
Notably Special Op: Rent-a-Cop
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Morgan Sackett
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Parks and Recreation SpecialDrew Goddard
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad Times at the El RoyaleJustine Bateman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VioletLorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AcceptedChristopher Ray
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
2nd Chance for ChristmasA.J. Tesler
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hero ModeMelora Walters
Director
1 film together · 3.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrowningWilliam Butler
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Special Op: Rent-a-CopSix 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
Bad Times at the El Royale
as Milton Wyrick
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Cop #2
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
as Jerry Gergich
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Cop #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
as Jerry Gergich
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. Jim O'Heir 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
20 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
9 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
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
as Jerry Gergich
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bad Times at the El Royale
as Milton Wyrick
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Cop #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bad Times at the El Royale
as Milton Wyrick
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
as Jerry Gergich
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Logan Lucky
as Cal
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Logan Lucky
as Cal
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bosco
as Bo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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