Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#478
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jude Law represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Jude is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jude Law appears in 52 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jude. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 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, thriller, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivier Assayas, Ron Howard, Justin Kurzel and others, Jude Law 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 Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as Young Author · The Third Day: Autumn (2020) as Sam · The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as Young Author
Career snapshot
Ranked #478 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
52
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
The Third Day: Autumn
Most frequent director
Guy Ritchie
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Guy Ritchie
Most common genre
Drama
32 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.9
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
1990s
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Talented Mr. Ripley, eXistenZ, Gattaca — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
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. The Talented Mr. Ripley, eXistenZ, Gattaca.
Most productive era
2010s
18 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.95 films | 6.69 films | 6.811 films | 5.87 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | 7.41 film | 6.96 films | 5.52 films |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | 6.53 films | 6.53 films | 6.34 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.54 films | 7.25 films | — |
| Crime | 6.82 films | 7.41 film | 6.44 films | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.57 films | 6.33 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Gattaca
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jerome Eugene Morrow.
Highest rated performance
8.8 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
The current state of the argument, as Vladimir Putin.
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.
52 of 52 films
as Young Author
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Vassili Zaitsev
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
as Jerome Eugene Morrow
Directed by Andrew Niccol
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 59 titles · 67 total credits · active 1984–2026
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Vladimir Putin
Eden
2025 · Ritter
Black Rabbit
2025 · TV · Jake Friedken · Executive Producer
The Order
2024 · Terry Husk · Producer
Firebrand
2024 · Henry VIII
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
2024 · TV · Jod Na Nawood
Peter Pan & Wendy
2023 · James Hook
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022 · Albus Dumbledore
True Things
2022 · Producer
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 · Actor
The Hat
2020 · Mystery Assailant
The Nest
2020 · Rory O'Hara · Executive Producer
The Rhythm Section
2020 · Iain Boyd "B"
The Third Day: Autumn
2020 · Sam
The New Pope
2020 · TV · Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo · Executive Producer
The Third Day
2020 · TV · Sam
Captain Marvel
2019 · Yon-Rogg
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Ted Davidoff
Vox Lux
2018 · Manager · Executive Producer
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018 · Albus Dumbledore
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017 · Vortigern
Genius
2016 · Thomas Wolfe
The Young Pope
2016 · TV · Lenny Belardo / Pope Pius XIII · Producer
Spy
2015 · Bradley Fine
The defining work
#1
Sam
The Third Day: Autumn (2020)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sam gives Jude Law a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Young Author
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score8.4
The Grand Budapest Hotel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Author is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vassili Zaitsev
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Performance score8.0
Enemy at the Gates asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vassili Zaitsev is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Young Author
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score7.9
The Grand Budapest Hotel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Author 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 Sam
Start here. The Third Day: Autumn is the clearest statement of what Jude Law does — accessible, 715 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jude 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.
Gattaca (1997)
Keeps the drama register of The Third Day: Autumn but asks for a colder reading of it.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Gattaca — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Enemy at the Gates — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Same director as The Grand Budapest Hotel, 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.
Anthony Minghella
Director
3 films together
Notably The Talented Mr. Ripley
Guy Ritchie
Director
3 films together
Notably Sherlock Holmes
Martin Scorsese
Director
2 films together
Notably Hugo
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Yates
Director
2 films together
Notably Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Gattaca
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably eXistenZ
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Enemy at the Gates
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably Road to Perdition
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Closer
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably I ♥ Huckabees
Charles Shyer
Director
1 film together
Notably Alfie
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably All the King's Men
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Holiday
Wong Kar-Wai
Director
1 film together
Notably My Blueberry Nights
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleuth
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Miguel Sapochnik
Director
1 film together
Notably Repo Men
Fernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together
Notably 360
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna Karenina
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Guardians
Richard Shepard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dom Hemingway
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy
Brady Corbet
Director
1 film together
Notably Vox Lux
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably A Rainy Day in New York
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Marvel
Marc Munden
Director
1 film together
Notably The Third Day: Autumn
Reed Morano
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rhythm Section
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably Peter Pan & Wendy
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Order
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Eden
Olivier Assayas
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wizard of the Kremlin
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Edward Norton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
F. Murray Abraham
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mathieu Amalric
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adrien Brody
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Willem Dafoe
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jeff Goldblum
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bill Murray
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Saoirse Ronan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jason Schwartzman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guy Ritchie
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sherlock HolmesAnthony Minghella
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Talented Mr. RipleyWes Anderson
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Grand Budapest HotelMartin Scorsese
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
HugoDavid Yates
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of GrindelwaldMarc Munden
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Third Day: AutumnAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GattacaPeter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the GuardiansSam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Road to PerditionJean-Jacques Annaud
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Enemy at the GatesNancy Meyers
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 HolidaySteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A.I. Artificial IntelligenceRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain MarvelPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpyMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CloserBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
eXistenZRon 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
EdenJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anna KareninaJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OrderOlivier Assayas
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 Wizard of the KremlinWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Rainy Day in New YorkTerry Gilliam
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusWong Kar-Wai
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Blueberry NightsMiguel Sapochnik
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Repo MenKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleuthDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I ♥ HuckabeesClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilCharles Shyer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlfieBrady Corbet
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vox LuxRichard Shepard
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dom HemingwaySteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the King's MenFernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
360Reed Morano
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rhythm SectionDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peter Pan & WendySix 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 Grand Budapest Hotel
as Young Author
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hugo
as Hugo's Father
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 Grand Budapest Hotel
as Young Author
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Young Author
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Third Day: Autumn
as Sam
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. Jude Law has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #359 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.8 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Wes Anderson | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Comedy, Screen presence, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2014–2014 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Young Author — The Grand Budapest Hotel | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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
32 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 Third Day: Autumn
as Sam
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Third Day: Autumn
as Sam
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Vox Lux
as Manager
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
as Imaginarium Tony 2
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Young Author
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rise of the Guardians
as Pitch (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rise of the Guardians
as Pitch (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Young Author
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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