Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2085
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jim Rash 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 Rash appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jim. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs 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 romance, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Greg Berlanti, Nicholas Stoller, Dan Mazer and others, Jim Rash 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.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019) as Average (voice) · Minority Report (2002) as Technician · The Way Way Back (2013) as Lewis
Career snapshot
Ranked #2085 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2002–2024
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Most frequent director
Greg Berlanti
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Greg Berlanti
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.4
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, The Way Way Back — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. The Slammin' Salmon, The Onion Movie, The Nines.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.23 films | 7.11 film | — |
| Action | 7.41 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.73 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.06 films | 7.42 films | 6.34 films |
| Crime | 5.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 7.71 film | 6.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002One Hour Photo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Amateur Porn Guy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Lance Vespertine.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Average (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Technician
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Larry
Directed by Stephen Basilone
as Lance Vespertine
Directed by Greg Berlanti
as Lewis
Directed by Jim Rash
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
Average (voice)
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Average (voice) gives Jim Rash a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Technician
Minority Report (2002)
Performance score7.2
Minority Report asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Technician is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Larry
Long Weekend (2021)
Performance score7.1
Long Weekend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Larry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lance Vespertine
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Performance score7.0
Fly Me to the Moon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lance Vespertine 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 Average (voice)
Start here. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs is the clearest statement of what Jim Rash does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.7 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.
Minority Report (2002)
A deliberate change of key after Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Way Way Back (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Minority Report — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Long Weekend (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The Way Way Back but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Keeps the romance register of Long Weekend but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably S1m0ne
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Minority Report
Mark Romanek
Director
1 film together
Notably One Hour Photo
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Sky High
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Smiley Face
Robert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together
Notably Balls of Fury
John August
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nines
Kevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Slammin' Salmon
Jim Rash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Way Way Back
Stephen Basilone
Director
1 film together
Notably Long Weekend
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Sweet Home Alone
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Bros
Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together
Notably Fly Me to the Moon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minority ReportJim Rash
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 Way Way BackStephen Basilone
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Long WeekendGreg Berlanti
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fly Me to the MoonMark Romanek
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Hour PhotoNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrosMike 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
Sky HighGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smiley FaceJohn August
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 NinesAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
S1m0neKevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Slammin' SalmonRobert Ben Garant
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Balls of FuryDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Sweet Home AloneSix 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
Minority Report
as Technician
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Onion Movie
as Bryce's Manager
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
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 Rash 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
22 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
12 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
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Minority Report
as Technician
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Nines
as Game Night Guest
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Minority Report
as Technician
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Minority Report
as Technician
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Average (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Onion Movie
as Bryce's Manager
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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