Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3992
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lamorne Morris 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.
Lamorne Morris appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lamorne. The Christmas Chronicles is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 romance, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joe Swanberg, Alex Prager, Jake Kasdan and others, Lamorne Morris 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.
The Christmas Chronicles (2018) as Mikey Jameson · Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) as Heater Repair Guy · Game Night (2018) as Kevin
Career snapshot
Ranked #3992 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2014–2027
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
The Christmas Chronicles
Average Nutevio score
4.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
The Christmas Chronicles
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jumanji: The Next Level, The Christmas Chronicles, Game Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Jumanji: The Next Level, The Christmas Chronicles, Game Night.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | — | 4.55 films |
| Action | — | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 3.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.64 films | 3.59 films |
| Crime | 6.81 film | — |
| Romance | 5.31 film | 2.03 films |
| Horror | — | 3.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Sex Ed
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bobby.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.2 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
2027Not Alone
The current state of the argument, as (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.
16 of 16 films
as Mikey Jameson
Directed by Unknown
as Kevin
Directed by John Francis Daley
as Wilfred Wigans
Directed by David S. F. Wilson
as Heater Repair Guy
Directed by Jake Kasdan
as Teddy Miles
Directed by Unknown
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
Mikey Jameson
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mikey Jameson gives Lamorne Morris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kevin
Game Night (2018)
Performance score7.0
Game Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kevin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wilfred Wigans
Bloodshot (2020)
Performance score6.9
Bloodshot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wilfred Wigans is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Heater Repair Guy
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Performance score6.8
Jumanji: The Next Level asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Heater Repair Guy 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 Mikey Jameson
Start here. The Christmas Chronicles is the clearest statement of what Lamorne Morris does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lamorne 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.
Game Night (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of The Christmas Chronicles but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Game Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bloodshot (2020)
Keeps the adventure register of Jumanji: The Next Level but asks for a colder reading of it.
Night Shift (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Bloodshot — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Kasdan
Director
2 films together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Night
LP
Director
1 film together
Notably Desperados
David S. F. Wilson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bloodshot
Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably How It Ends
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Saturday Night
Alex Prager
Director
1 film together
Notably DreamQuil
Joe Swanberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sun Never Sets
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
2 films together · 3.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game NightJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saturday NightDavid S. F. Wilson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BloodshotLP
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DesperadosZoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How It EndsJoe Swanberg
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sun Never SetsAlex Prager
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DreamQuilSix 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
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mikey Jameson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Not Alone
as (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
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mikey Jameson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Heater Repair Guy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mikey Jameson
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. Lamorne Morris 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
13 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
Game Night
as Kevin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Game Night
as Kevin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Not Alone
as (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Game Night
as Kevin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bloodshot
as Wilfred Wigans
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bloodshot
as Wilfred Wigans
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Christmas Chronicles
as Mikey Jameson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saturday Night
as Garrett Morris
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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