Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3561
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jonathan Aris represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Jonathan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jonathan Aris appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonathan. The Martian is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 drama, horror, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Zemeckis, David Slade, Armando Iannucci and others, Jonathan Aris 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 Martian (2015) as Brendan Hatch · Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) as Anderson · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Senator Jebel
Career snapshot
Ranked #3561 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1997–2024
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
The Martian
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Most frequent director
Ridley Scott
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ridley Scott
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.5
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Flawless — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
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 Jackal.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.81 film | 7.05 films | 5.72 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | — | 6.83 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 6.81 film | 6.74 films | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.34 films | — |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.81 film | 7.02 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.02 films | 4.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997The Jackal
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alexander Radzinski.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015The Martian
7.9 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
2024Here
The current state of the argument, as Earl Higgins.
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 Brendan Hatch
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Anderson
Directed by Douglas Mackinnon
as Senator Jebel
Directed by Gareth Edwards
as Mezhnikov
Directed by Armando Iannucci
as Crispin
Directed by David Slade
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
Brendan Hatch
The Martian (2015)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Brendan Hatch gives Jonathan Aris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Anderson
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
Performance score7.4
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anderson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Senator Jebel
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Performance score7.3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Senator Jebel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mezhnikov
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Performance score6.9
The Death of Stalin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mezhnikov 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 Brendan Hatch
Start here. The Martian is the clearest statement of what Jonathan Aris does — accessible, 141 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jonathan 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.
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Martian but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Sherlock: The Abominable Bride — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Death of Stalin — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ridley Scott
Director
2 films together
Notably The Martian
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jackal
Michael Radford
Director
1 film together
Notably Flawless
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gulliver's Travels
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The World's End
Luke Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Morgan
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Douglas Mackinnon
Director
1 film together
Notably Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Jonathan Teplitzky
Director
1 film together
Notably Churchill
Armando Iannucci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Stalin
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Here
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ridley Scott
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The MartianDouglas Mackinnon
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sherlock: The Abominable BrideGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryArmando Iannucci
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of StalinDavid Slade
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black Mirror: BandersnatchEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The World's EndMichael Radford
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlawlessRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HereMichael Caton-Jones
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 JackalJonathan Teplitzky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChurchillLuke Scott
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MorganRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gulliver's TravelsSix 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 Martian
as Brendan Hatch
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Churchill
as Mallory
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 Martian
as Brendan Hatch
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Death of Stalin
as Mezhnikov
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Martian
as Brendan Hatch
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. Jonathan Aris 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
27 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Anderson
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Anderson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Churchill
as Mallory
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
as Crispin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Jebel
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Jebel
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Death of Stalin
as Mezhnikov
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Martian
as Brendan Hatch
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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