Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1273
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nick Jonas 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.
Nick Jonas appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. Chasing Happiness is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 comedy, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Carney, Sam Wrench, Jake Kasdan and others, Nick Jonas 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.
Chasing Happiness (2019) as Self · Happiness Continues (2020) as Self · All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #1273 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Chasing Happiness
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Chasing Happiness
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.2
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jumanji: The Next Level, Chasing Happiness, Midway — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | — | 6.23 films | 4.94 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.82 films | 4.88 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cherub #3 (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.0 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, as Jefferson 'Seaplane' McDonough.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Danny Wilson
Directed by John Carney
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
Self
Chasing Happiness (2019)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Nick Jonas a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Happiness Continues (2020)
Performance score8.1
Happiness Continues asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Danny Wilson
Power Ballad (2026)
Performance score7.3
Power Ballad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danny Wilson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Jonas Brothers Family Roast (2021)
Performance score7.2
Jonas Brothers Family Roast asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Self
Start here. Chasing Happiness is the clearest statement of what Nick Jonas does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 8.0 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.
Happiness Continues (2020)
Same director as Chasing Happiness, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020)
Keeps the documentary register of Happiness Continues but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jonas Brothers Family Roast (2021)
Keeps the documentary register of All In: The Fight for Democracy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Power Ballad (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Jonas Brothers Family Roast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Kasdan
Director
3 films together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Careful What You Wish For
Andrew Neel
Director
1 film together
Notably Goat
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Midway
Liz Garbus
Director
1 film together
Notably All In: The Fight for Democracy
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Chaos Walking
Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good Half
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Cordially Invited
Jessica Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Sam Wrench
Director
1 film together
Notably Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
John Carney
Director
1 film together
Notably Power Ballad
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
3 films together · 4.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelLiz Garbus
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All In: The Fight for DemocracySam Wrench
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary SpecialRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MidwayJohn Carney
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Power BalladDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chaos WalkingShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Battle of the SmithsonianJessica Yu
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Very Jonas Christmas MovieRobert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Good HalfElizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Careful What You Wish ForNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Cordially InvitedAndrew Neel
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoatSix 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
Chasing Happiness
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love Again
as Joel
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Chasing Happiness
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
as Cherub #3 (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Chasing Happiness
as Self
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 Jonas 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Chasing Happiness
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chasing Happiness
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Love Again
as Joel
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chaos Walking
as Davy Prentiss Jr.
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Alex
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Alex
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Power Ballad
as Danny Wilson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
as Cherub #3 (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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