Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6253
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Taylor Lautner 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.
Taylor Lautner appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Taylor. Home Team is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 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, family, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Frank Coraci, Dennis Dugan, Bill Condon and others, Taylor Lautner 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.
Home Team (2022) as Coach Troy Lambert · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) as Jacob Black · Twilight (2008) as Jacob Black
Career snapshot
Ranked #6253 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2005–2022
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Home Team
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Home Team
Most frequent director
Bill Condon
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bill Condon
Most common genre
Romance
6 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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Home Team — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
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. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Twilight, Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.32 films | 6.32 films | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 5.52 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 5.83 films | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.24 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Eliot Murtaugh.
Career peak
2012The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2022Home Team
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Coach Troy Lambert.
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 Jacob Black
Directed by Bill Condon
as Jacob Black
Directed by Bill Condon
as Jacob Black
Directed by David Slade
as Jacob Black
Directed by Chris Weitz
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
Coach Troy Lambert
Home Team (2022)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Coach Troy Lambert gives Taylor Lautner a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jacob Black
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Performance score7.0
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jacob Black is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jacob Black
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Performance score6.7
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jacob Black is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jacob Black
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Performance score6.7
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jacob Black 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 Coach Troy Lambert
Start here. Home Team is the clearest statement of what Taylor Lautner does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Taylor 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.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Home Team but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Keeps the romance register of The Twilight Saga: New Moon but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Keeps the romance register of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Same director as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, 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.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Valentine's Day
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
John Singleton
Director
1 film together
Notably Abduction
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Grown Ups 2
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ridiculous 6
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grown Ups 2David Slade
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 Twilight Saga: EclipseChris Weitz
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 Twilight Saga: New MoonAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the Dozen 2Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valentine's DayJohn Singleton
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AbductionFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ridiculous 6Six 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
Twilight
as Jacob Black
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Jacob Black
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Twilight
as Jacob Black
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Grown Ups 2
as Frat Boy Andy (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Home Team
as Coach Troy Lambert
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. Taylor Lautner 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.
Romance Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in romance, 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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Jacob Black
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Abduction
as Nathan Harper
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Jacob Black
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Abduction
as Nathan Harper
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Abduction
as Nathan Harper
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Ridiculous 6
as Lil Pete
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Twilight
as Jacob Black
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
as Jacob Black
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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