Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#23030
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Camrus Johnson 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.
Camrus Johnson appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Camrus. Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Kang Hei Chul, Jessica Yu and others, Camrus Johnson 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.
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad (2020) as Narrator / Jay (voice) · The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) as Omar Hassabala · The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025) as Agloval (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #23030 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
Most frequent director
Anthony Russo
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Anthony Russo
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.4
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Electric State, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, Quiz Lady — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. The Sun Is Also a Star, The Cat and the Moon, Paterno.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 5.83 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.72 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Paterno
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Campus Interviewee.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2025The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
The current state of the argument, as Agloval (voice).
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.
7 of 7 films
as Narrator / Jay (voice)
Directed by Camrus Johnson
as Agloval (voice)
Directed by Kang Hei Chul
as Omar Hassabala
Directed by Ry Russo-Young
as Corporal Carson
Directed by Anthony Russo
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Narrator / Jay (voice)
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad (2020)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Narrator / Jay (voice) gives Camrus Johnson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Agloval (voice)
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025)
Performance score7.0
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agloval (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Omar Hassabala
The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
Performance score6.8
The Sun Is Also a Star asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Omar Hassabala is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trav
Quiz Lady (2023)
Performance score6.6
Quiz Lady asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trav 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 Narrator / Jay (voice)
Start here. Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad is the clearest statement of what Camrus Johnson does — accessible, 5 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Camrus 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 Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Quiz Lady (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Sun Is Also a Star — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Quiz Lady — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Electric State (2025)
Keeps the action register of The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Paterno
Alex Wolff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat and the Moon
Ry Russo-Young
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sun Is Also a Star
Camrus Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
Jessica Yu
Director
1 film together
Notably Quiz Lady
Kang Hei Chul
Director
1 film together
Notably The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electric State
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Camrus Johnson
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My DadRy Russo-Young
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sun Is Also a StarKang Hei Chul
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Witcher: Sirens of the DeepJessica Yu
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quiz LadyAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Electric StateBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaternoAlex Wolff
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cat and the MoonSix 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
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (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
The Sun Is Also a Star
as Omar Hassabala
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Paterno
as Campus Interviewee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (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. Camrus Johnson 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
3 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
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Sun Is Also a Star
as Omar Hassabala
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
as Agloval (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Grab My Hand: A Letter To My Dad
as Narrator / Jay (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Electric State
as Corporal Carson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Sun Is Also a Star
as Omar Hassabala
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Electric State
as Corporal Carson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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