Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18424
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jonathan Cohen 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.
Jonathan Cohen appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonathan. Amanda is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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 science fiction, comedy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Simon Astier, Olivier Nakache, Matthias Schweighöfer and others, Jonathan Cohen 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.
Amanda (2018) as Axel · Once Upon My Mother (2025) as Roland Perez (Adult) · You Found Me (2025) as Oscar
Career snapshot
Ranked #18424 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Amanda
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Amanda
Most frequent director
Simon Astier
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Simon Astier
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.1
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. White as Snow, Amanda — 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
6.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. White as Snow, Amanda.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.22 films | 6.33 films |
| Action | — | 5.73 films |
| Comedy | 5.21 film | 5.913 films |
| Crime | — | 6.02 films |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2018Amanda
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Axel. 7.1 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
2026Vertiginous
The current state of the argument, as Bruno Moulin (voice).
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.
16 of 16 films
as Oscar
Directed by Unknown
as Delacroix
Directed by Matthias Schweighöfer
as Bruno Moulin (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Roland Perez (Adult)
Once Upon My Mother (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Roland Perez (Adult) gives Jonathan Cohen a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Oscar
You Found Me (2025)
Performance score7.4
You Found Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Oscar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Axel
Amanda (2018)
Performance score7.2
Amanda asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Axel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Delacroix
Army of Thieves (2021)
Performance score7.0
Army of Thieves asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Delacroix is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Roland Perez (Adult)
Start here. Once Upon My Mother is the clearest statement of what Jonathan Cohen does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.0 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.
Amanda (2018)
Same director as Once Upon My Mother, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Army of Thieves (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Amanda — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
You Found Me (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Army of Thieves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Vertiginous (2026)
Same director as You Found Me, 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.
Jean-Pascal Zadi
Director
1 film together
Notably Simply Black
Matthias Schweighöfer
Director
1 film together
Notably Army of Thieves
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably A Difficult Year
Simon Astier
Director
1 film together
Notably McWalter
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matthias Schweighöfer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Army of ThievesOlivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Difficult YearJean-Pascal Zadi
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Simply BlackSimon Astier
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
McWalterSix 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
Army of Thieves
as Delacroix
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
You Found Me
as Oscar
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Amanda
as Axel
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Original+
as Self - Presenter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Once Upon My Mother
as Roland Perez (Adult)
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 Cohen 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
14 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
You Found Me
as Oscar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Army of Thieves
as Delacroix
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You Found Me
as Oscar
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Daaaaaalí!
as Dalí
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Army of Thieves
as Delacroix
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
McWalter
as Yuri
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Daaaaaalí!
as Dalí
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Daaaaaalí!
as Dalí
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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