Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4989
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jonathan Majors 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 Majors appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonathan. Creed III 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 drama, action, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael B. Jordan, Brad Baruh, Peyton Reed and others, Jonathan Majors 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.
Creed III (2023) as Damian 'Dame' Anderson · Devotion (2022) as Jesse Brown · The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) as Montgomery Allen
Career snapshot
Ranked #4989 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Creed III
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Creed III
Most frequent director
Michael B. Jordan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael B. Jordan
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2020s
6.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Magazine Dreams, Creed III, Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Out of Blue, Captive State, The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 6.44 films | 6.46 films |
| Action | 5.71 film | 6.72 films |
| Thriller | 5.71 film | — |
| Crime | 5.82 films | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017Hostiles
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Corporal Henry Woodson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Devotion
7.1 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
2025Magazine Dreams
The current state of the argument, as Killian Maddox.
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 Jesse Brown
Directed by J.D. Dillard
as Damian 'Dame' Anderson
Directed by Michael B. Jordan
as Killian Maddox
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
Jesse Brown
Devotion (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jesse Brown gives Jonathan Majors a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Damian 'Dame' Anderson
Creed III (2023)
Performance score7.5
Creed III asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Damian 'Dame' Anderson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Killian Maddox
Magazine Dreams (2025)
Performance score7.4
Magazine Dreams asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Killian Maddox is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Montgomery Allen
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Performance score7.4
The Last Black Man in San Francisco asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Montgomery Allen 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 Jesse Brown
Start here. Devotion is the clearest statement of what Jonathan Majors does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 7.1 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.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Devotion but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Harder They Fall (2021)
Same director as The Last Black Man in San Francisco, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Creed III (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Harder They Fall — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Magazine Dreams (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Creed III but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Hostiles
Yann Demange
Director
1 film together
Notably White Boy Rick
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Captive State
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Da 5 Bloods
Max Winkler
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungleland
J.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together
Notably Devotion
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Michael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed III
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creed IIIJ.D. Dillard
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DevotionScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HostilesMax Winkler
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JunglelandSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Da 5 BloodsYann Demange
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Boy RickBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captive StateSix 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
Devotion
as Jesse Brown
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hostiles
as Corporal Henry Woodson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Devotion
as Jesse Brown
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as He Who Remains (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Devotion
as Jesse Brown
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 Majors 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Devotion
as Jesse Brown
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Creed III
as Damian 'Dame' Anderson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hostiles
as Corporal Henry Woodson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Out of Blue
as Duncan J Reynolds
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hostiles
as Corporal Henry Woodson
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Kang the Conqueror
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
White Boy Rick
as Johnny 'Lil Man' Curry
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
White Boy Rick
as Johnny 'Lil Man' Curry
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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