Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3161
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Joshua Jackson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Joshua is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Joshua Jackson appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Joshua. Ocean's Eleven is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katie Holmes, Jonathan Entwistle, Stuart Townsend and others, Joshua Jackson 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.
Ocean's Eleven (2001) as Joshua Jackson (uncredited) · Karate Kid: Legends (2025) as Victor Lipani · Cruel Intentions (1999) as Blaine Tuttle
Career snapshot
Ranked #3161 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Ocean's Eleven
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Ocean's Eleven
Most frequent director
Katie Holmes
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Katie Holmes
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.4
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
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Battle in Seattle, Bobby, Racing Stripes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. Cruel Intentions, Muppets from Space, Urban Legend.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.32 films | 3.52 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.72 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 5.91 film | 0.01 film |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | 0.01 film |
| Horror | 6.22 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Scream 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Film Class Guy #1.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Ocean's Eleven
7.6 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
The current state of the argument.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Victor Lipani
Directed by Jonathan Entwistle
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
Directed by Unknown
as Blaine Tuttle
Directed by Roger Kumble
as Film Class Guy #1
Directed by Wes Craven
Directed by Katie Holmes
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
Victor Lipani
Karate Kid: Legends (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Victor Lipani gives Joshua Jackson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Performance score7.4
Ocean's Eleven asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joshua Jackson (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blaine Tuttle
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Performance score7.1
Cruel Intentions asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blaine Tuttle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Film Class Guy #1
Scream 2 (1997)
Performance score6.6
Scream 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Film Class Guy #1 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 Victor Lipani
Start here. Karate Kid: Legends is the clearest statement of what Joshua Jackson does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Joshua 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.
Scream 2 (1997)
A deliberate change of key after Karate Kid: Legends — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Cruel Intentions (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Scream 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Cruel Intentions — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Happy Hours, Part 1 (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Ocean's Eleven — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream 2
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets from Space
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Cruel Intentions
Davis Guggenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Gossip
Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together
Notably Bobby
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
Jonathan Entwistle
Director
1 film together
Notably Karate Kid: Legends
Katie Holmes
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Hours, Part 1
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jonathan Entwistle
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Karate Kid: LegendsRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cruel IntentionsWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scream 2Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BobbyStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets from SpaceDavis Guggenheim
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GossipKatie Holmes
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Hours, Part 1Six 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
Ocean's Eleven
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cruel Intentions
as Blaine Tuttle
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Karate Kid: Legends
as Victor Lipani
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. Joshua Jackson 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
29 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
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
Ocean's Eleven
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ocean's Eleven
as Joshua Jackson (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cruel Intentions
as Blaine Tuttle
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gossip
as Beau Edson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Karate Kid: Legends
as Victor Lipani
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Karate Kid: Legends
as Victor Lipani
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cruel Intentions
as Blaine Tuttle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Scream 2
as Film Class Guy #1
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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