Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6850
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
mgk 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.
mgk appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without mgk. Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 music, documentary, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Feig, Jeff Tremaine, Mod Sun and others, mgk 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.
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink (2022) as Self · Big Time Adolescence (2020) as Nick · The King of Staten Island (2020) as Tattoo Shop Owner
Career snapshot
Ranked #6850 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
Most frequent director
Jeff Tremaine
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jeff Tremaine
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.1
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
5.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, Jackpot!, 'Til Death Do Us Part Kourtney & Travis — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.9
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.9
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. Captive State, Rent Due, Bird Box.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 6.81 film | 6.45 films |
| Action | 5.71 film | 6.27 films |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 5.82 films |
| Comedy | 2.01 film | 6.46 films |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 6.03 films |
| Romance | — | 5.42 films |
| Horror | 6.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Nerve
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ty.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
7.7 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
2026Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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 Tattoo Shop Owner
Directed by Judd Apatow
as Ty
Directed by Henry Joost
as Self
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
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
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink (2022)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives mgk a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nick
Big Time Adolescence (2020)
Performance score7.3
Big Time Adolescence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tattoo Shop Owner
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Performance score6.9
The King of Staten Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tattoo Shop Owner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ty
Nerve (2016)
Performance score6.9
Nerve asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ty 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. Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink is the clearest statement of what mgk does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet mgk 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.
Nerve (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Big Time Adolescence (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Nerve — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Big Time Adolescence but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jackass Forever (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The King of Staten Island but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Henry Joost
Director
2 films together
Notably Nerve
Mod Sun
Director
2 films together
Notably Downfalls High
Jeff Tremaine
Director
2 films together
Notably Jackass Forever
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird Box
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Captive State
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The King of Staten Island
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Jackpot!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Henry Joost
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
NerveJeff Tremaine
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jackass ForeverMod Sun
Director
2 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Downfalls HighJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The King of Staten IslandSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bird BoxPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jackpot!Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captive StateSix 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
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
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
Downfalls High
as Narrator / Performer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The King of Staten Island
as Tattoo Shop Owner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
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. mgk 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in action, 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
Nerve
as Ty
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nerve
as Ty
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Taurus
as Cole
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nerve
as Ty
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jackass Forever
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Last Son
as Cal
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The King of Staten Island
as Tattoo Shop Owner
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Good Mourning
as London Clash
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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