Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18878
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett 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 Stewart-Jarrett appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nathan. Femme 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with E.L. Katz, Sam H. Freeman, Nia DaCosta and others, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett 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.
Femme (2023) as Jules · Vita & Virginia (2019) as Ralph · Benjamin (2019) as Paul
Career snapshot
Ranked #18878 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2013–2024
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Femme
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Femme
Most frequent director
E.L. Katz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With E.L. Katz
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.1
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
6.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Azrael, Femme, Candyman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.0
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. Benjamin, Mope, The Kid Who Would Be King.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.75 films | 6.12 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 5.91 film |
| Thriller | 5.01 film | 6.33 films |
| Comedy | 5.63 films | 5.31 film |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | 6.52 films | 6.91 film |
| Horror | — | 6.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Dom Hemingway
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hugh.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Femme
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
2024Azrael
The current state of the argument, as Kenan.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Jules
Directed by Sam H. Freeman
as Ralph
Directed by Chanya Button
as Troy Cartwright
Directed by Nia DaCosta
as Actor Paul
Directed by Robert Schwartzman
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
Jules
Femme (2023)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jules gives Nathan Stewart-Jarrett a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ralph
Vita & Virginia (2019)
Performance score6.7
Vita & Virginia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ralph is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kenan
Azrael (2024)
Performance score6.5
Azrael asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kenan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Troy Cartwright
Candyman (2021)
Performance score6.5
Candyman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Troy Cartwright 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 Jules
Start here. Femme is the clearest statement of what Nathan Stewart-Jarrett does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 6.9 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.
Vita & Virginia (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Femme but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Argument (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Vita & Virginia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Candyman (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Argument — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Azrael (2024)
Keeps the horror register of Candyman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Shepard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dom Hemingway
Chanya Button
Director
1 film together
Notably Vita & Virginia
Joe Cornish
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid Who Would Be King
Simon Amstell
Director
1 film together
Notably Benjamin
Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Argument
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably Candyman
Sam H. Freeman
Director
1 film together
Notably Femme
E.L. Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Azrael
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam H. Freeman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FemmeChanya Button
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vita & VirginiaSimon Amstell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BenjaminJoe Cornish
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kid Who Would Be KingNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CandymanE.L. Katz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AzraelRichard 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 HemingwayRobert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ArgumentSix 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
Vita & Virginia
as Ralph
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Femme
as Jules
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Femme
as Jules
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Kid Who Would Be King
as Mr. Kepler
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Femme
as Jules
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 Stewart-Jarrett 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
7 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
Femme
as Jules
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Candyman
as Troy Cartwright
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Femme
as Jules
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Kid Who Would Be King
as Mr. Kepler
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Kid Who Would Be King
as Mr. Kepler
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Kid Who Would Be King
as Mr. Kepler
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Benjamin
as Paul
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Azrael
as Kenan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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