Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15,740
of 15,890 eligible performers
Jordan Trovillion 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.
Jordan Trovillion appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jordan. My Days of Mercy is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, romance, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ron Howard, Tali Shalom-Ezer, Kevin Connolly and others, Jordan Trovillion 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.
My Days of Mercy (2018) as Katlin · Jack Reacher (2012) as Goodwill Cashier · Hillbilly Elegy (2020) as Arguing Girlfriend
Career snapshot
Ranked #15,740 of 15,890 eligible performers in the Nutevio catalogue.
Films in Nutevio
6
2012–2020
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
My Days of Mercy
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
My Days of Mercy
Most frequent director
Ron Howard
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ron Howard
Most common genre
Drama
5 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
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
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Hillbilly Elegy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. My Days of Mercy, Gotti, The Old Man & the Gun.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 6.54 films | 6.71 film |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.03 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | — |
| Crime | 6.33 films | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — |
| Horror | 5.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Jack Reacher
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Goodwill Cashier.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018My Days of Mercy
6.9 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
2020Hillbilly Elegy
The current state of the argument, as Arguing Girlfriend.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Katlin
Directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer
as Goodwill Cashier
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
as Arguing Girlfriend
Directed by Ron Howard
as Angel
Directed by Kevin Connolly
as Angela the Teller
Directed by David Lowery
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
Katlin
My Days of Mercy (2018)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Katlin gives Jordan Trovillion a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Goodwill Cashier
Jack Reacher (2012)
Performance score6.7
Jack Reacher asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Goodwill Cashier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Arguing Girlfriend
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Performance score6.6
Hillbilly Elegy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arguing Girlfriend is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Angel
Gotti (2018)
Performance score6.5
Gotti asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angel 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 Katlin
Start here. My Days of Mercy is the clearest statement of what Jordan Trovillion does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jordan 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.
Jack Reacher (2012)
Keeps the drama register of My Days of Mercy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gotti (2018)
Keeps the crime register of Jack Reacher but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Keeps the crime register of Gotti but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Old Man & the Gun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Reacher
Robert Legato
Director
1 film together
Notably Eloise
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Old Man & the Gun
Kevin Connolly
Director
1 film together
Notably Gotti
Tali Shalom-Ezer
Director
1 film together
Notably My Days of Mercy
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Hillbilly Elegy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tali Shalom-Ezer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Days of MercyChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack ReacherRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hillbilly ElegyDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Old Man & the GunKevin Connolly
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GottiRobert Legato
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EloiseSix 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
Jack Reacher
as Goodwill Cashier
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Days of Mercy
as Katlin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
My Days of Mercy
as Katlin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hillbilly Elegy
as Arguing Girlfriend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Days of Mercy
as Katlin
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. Jordan Trovillion 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 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
My Days of Mercy
as Katlin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Jack Reacher
as Goodwill Cashier
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Days of Mercy
as Katlin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Eloise
as Garage Girl
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jack Reacher
as Goodwill Cashier
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jack Reacher
as Goodwill Cashier
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Old Man & the Gun
as Angela the Teller
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Eloise
as Garage Girl
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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