Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5462
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nick Jameson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Nick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Nick Jameson appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. Frozen is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 adventure, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Hughes, Chris Buck, Lauren Montgomery and others, Nick Jameson 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.
Frozen (2013) as Additional Voices (voice) · Batman: Year One (2011) as Merkel (voice) · Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014) as Uncle Owen (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5462 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1993–2022
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Frozen
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Frozen
Most frequent director
Robert Hughes
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert Hughes
Most common genre
Adventure
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.5
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars, Frozen, Batman: Year One — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
7.2
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. Executive Decision, Look Who's Talking Now!.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film | 5.81 film | 7.31 film | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.41 film | 5.82 films | 7.32 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 5.81 film | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | 6.23 films | 7.21 film | — |
| Crime | — | 5.81 film | 7.31 film | — |
| Romance | 5.41 film | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dog / Wolf (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Frozen
7.5 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
2022Against the Ice
The current state of the argument, as Captain Holm.
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 Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
as Merkel (voice)
Directed by Lauren Montgomery
as Uncle Owen (voice)
Directed by Robert Hughes
as Captain Holm
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Additional Voices (voice)
Frozen (2013)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Nick Jameson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Merkel (voice)
Batman: Year One (2011)
Performance score7.2
Batman: Year One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Merkel (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Uncle Owen (voice)
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Performance score7.1
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Uncle Owen (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Captain Holm
Against the Ice (2022)
Performance score6.7
Against the Ice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Holm 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Frozen is the clearest statement of what Nick Jameson does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nick 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.
EuroTrip (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Frozen — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman: Year One (2011)
A deliberate change of key after EuroTrip — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Keeps the action register of Batman: Year One but asks for a colder reading of it.
Against the Ice (2022)
Keeps the adventure register of Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stuart Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Executive Decision
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Along Came Polly
Alec Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably EuroTrip
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Beowulf
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blades of Glory
Nimród Antal
Director
1 film together
Notably Armored
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Year One
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen
Robert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrozenLauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Year OneRobert Hughes
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb: Star WarsAlec Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuroTripStuart Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Executive DecisionJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blades of GloryJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Along Came PollyRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeowulfNimród Antal
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArmoredSix 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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
EuroTrip
as Reporter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
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. Nick Jameson 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Year One
as Merkel (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Against the Ice
as Captain Holm
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Armored
as Homeless Man
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
as Uncle Owen (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
as Uncle Owen (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Batman: Year One
as Merkel (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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