Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#31981
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Josh Caras works on quiet performance 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.
Josh Caras appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Josh. The Glass Castle 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 quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Gene Stupnitsky and others, Josh Caras 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 Glass Castle (2017) as Brian Walls · Definitely, Maybe (2008) as 1994 Intern · Good Boys (2019) as Benji
Career snapshot
Ranked #31981 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
The Glass Castle
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
The Glass Castle
Most frequent director
Maggie Gyllenhaal
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Maggie Gyllenhaal
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Good Boys, The Glass Castle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Definitely, Maybe.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 6.31 film | 7.11 film | 3.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.81 film | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Apprentice Actor #2.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017The Glass Castle
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
2026The Bride!
The current state of the argument, as Ballroom Cop.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Brian Walls
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
as Ballroom Cop
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
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
Brian Walls
The Glass Castle (2017)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Brian Walls gives Josh Caras a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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1994 Intern
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Performance score6.8
Definitely, Maybe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 1994 Intern is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Benji
Good Boys (2019)
Performance score6.7
Good Boys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Benji is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ballroom Cop
The Bride! (2026)
Performance score6.5
The Bride! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ballroom Cop 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 Brian Walls
Start here. The Glass Castle is the clearest statement of what Josh Caras does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Josh 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.
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
A deliberate change of key after The Glass Castle — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Boys (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Definitely, Maybe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wish You Were Here (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Good Boys — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Bride! (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Wish You Were Here — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Adam Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Definitely, Maybe
Sanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Glass Castle
Gene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Boys
Julia Stiles
Director
1 film together
Notably Wish You Were Here
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bride!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Glass CastleAdam Brooks
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Definitely, MaybeGene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good BoysJulia Stiles
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wish You Were HereSanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bride!Six 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 Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Wish You Were Here
as Roddy
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 Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Apprentice Actor #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
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. Josh Caras 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
4 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
The Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wish You Were Here
as Roddy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Bride!
as Ballroom Cop
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Glass Castle
as Brian Walls
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Apprentice Actor #2
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Wish You Were Here
as Roddy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wish You Were Here
as Roddy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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