Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4132
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nathan Jones 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.
Nathan Jones appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nathan. Mad Max: Fury Road is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Farrelly, George Miller, Joseph Kosinski and others, Nathan Jones 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.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Rictus Erectus · Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) as Rictus Erectus · Fearless (2006) as Hercules O'Brien
Career snapshot
Ranked #4132 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Mad Max: Fury Road
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Mad Max: Fury Road
Most frequent director
George Miller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With George Miller
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.3
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
7.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Fearless, The Protector, Troy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.3
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. Fearless, The Protector, Troy.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 7.32 films | 7.01 film | 4.51 film |
| Action | 7.33 films | 6.16 films | 6.43 films |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | 3.51 film | 3.43 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.81 film | 6.51 film |
| Crime | 7.11 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Troy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Boagrius.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.9 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
2026The Observance
The current state of the argument, as SWAT.
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 Rictus Erectus
Directed by George Miller
as Rictus Erectus
Directed by George Miller
as T.K.
Directed by Unknown
as Boagrius
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
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
Rictus Erectus
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rictus Erectus gives Nathan Jones a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rictus Erectus
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Performance score7.3
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rictus Erectus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hercules O'Brien
Fearless (2006)
Performance score7.3
Fearless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hercules O'Brien is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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T.K.
The Protector (2005)
Performance score7.2
The Protector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. T.K. 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 Rictus Erectus
Start here. Mad Max: Fury Road is the clearest statement of what Nathan Jones does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nathan 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.
Troy (2004)
Keeps the action register of Mad Max: Fury Road but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Protector (2005)
Keeps the action register of Troy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fearless (2006)
Keeps the action register of The Protector but asks for a colder reading of it.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Keeps the action register of Fearless but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably Mad Max: Fury Road
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Troy
Ronny Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably Fearless
Michael Jai White
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Back Down: No Surrender
Don Michael Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably Scorpion King: Book of Souls
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Simon McQuoid
Director
1 film together
Notably Mortal Kombat
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Spiderhead
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Ricky Stanicky
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Miller
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mad Max: Fury RoadRonny Yu
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FearlessWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TroySimon McQuoid
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mortal KombatMichael Jai White
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Back Down: No SurrenderDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ricky StanickyDon Michael Paul
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scorpion King: Book of SoulsJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpiderheadSix 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
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fearless
as Hercules O'Brien
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Russian Fighter Pilot
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
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. Nathan Jones 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
22 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in action, 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
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Protector
as T.K.
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fearless
as Hercules O'Brien
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Observance
as SWAT
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as Rictus Erectus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Troy
as Boagrius
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Rictus Erectus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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