Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#517
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Joey King 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.
Joey King appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Joey. The Dark Knight Rises 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 comedy, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Susanne Bier, Chris Renaud, Richard LaGravenese and others, Joey King 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 Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Older Prison Child · The Conjuring (2013) as Christine · The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) as Elle Evans
Career snapshot
Ranked #517 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Dark Knight Rises
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
The Dark Knight Rises
Most frequent director
Zach Braff
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Zach Braff
Most common genre
Comedy
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who!, Quarantine — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who!, Quarantine.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | 7.21 film | 6.95 films | 4.24 films |
| Action | — | 6.44 films | 6.84 films |
| Thriller | 5.81 film | 6.46 films | 7.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 6.67 films | 5.47 films |
| Crime | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.83 films | 6.94 films |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 6.04 films | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Reign Over Me
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gina Fineman (uncredited).
Highest rated performance
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
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 Kylie Owens.
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.
33 of 33 films
as Tessa
Directed by Unknown
as Older Prison Child
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Prince
Directed by David Leitch
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
Elle Evans
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Elle Evans gives Joey King a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tessa
The In Between (2022)
Performance score7.9
The In Between asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tessa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elle Evans
The Kissing Booth (2018)
Performance score7.8
The Kissing Booth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elle Evans is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Older Prison Child
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score7.8
The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Older Prison Child 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 Elle Evans
Start here. The Kissing Booth 2 is the clearest statement of what Joey King does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Joey 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.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Kissing Booth 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Kissing Booth (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Dark Knight Rises — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The In Between (2022)
Same director as The Kissing Booth, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Bullet Train (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The In Between — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together
Notably White House Down
Zach Braff
Director
2 films together
Notably Going in Style
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably Reign Over Me
John Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together
Notably Quarantine
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Ramona and Beezus
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle: Los Angeles
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight Rises
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Oz the Great and Powerful
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Conjuring
John R. Leonetti
Director
1 film together
Notably Wish Upon
Veena Sud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lie
Sylvain White
Director
1 film together
Notably Slender Man
Greg Nicotero
Director
1 film together
Notably A Creepshow Animated Special
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Bullet Train
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Uglies
Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together
Notably A Family Affair
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me 4
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Practical Magic 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Zach Braff
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Going in StyleRoland Emmerich
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
White House DownChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dark Knight RisesJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConjuringDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bullet TrainGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crazy, Stupid, Love.Mike Binder
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reign Over MeChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable Me 4Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursElizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ramona and BeezusVeena Sud
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LieGreg Nicotero
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Creepshow Animated SpecialSam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oz the Great and PowerfulJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle: Los AngelesJohn Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuarantineRichard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Family AffairMcG
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UgliesJohn R. Leonetti
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wish UponSylvain White
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Slender ManSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Practical Magic 2Six 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
The Kissing Booth 2
as Elle Evans
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The In Between
as Tessa
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 Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Kissing Booth 2
as Elle Evans
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. Joey King 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
16 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 Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The In Between
as Tessa
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Lie
as Kayla Logan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Uglies
as Tally
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as Molly
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dark Knight Rises
as Older Prison Child
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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