Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5261
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nat Wolff 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.
Nat Wolff appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nat. The Fault in Our Stars is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, music, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alex Ross Perry, Shane Black, Kerry Shawcross and others, Nat Wolff 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 Fault in Our Stars (2014) as Isaac · Stuck in Love (2013) as Rusty Borgens · Ballerina (2016) as Victor (US version)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5261 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2011–2025
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
Most frequent director
Paul Weitz
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Paul Weitz
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Pavements, Play Dirty, Which Brings Me to You — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
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 Kill Team, Semper Fi, Death Note.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.311 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | 6.32 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.29 films | 6.43 films |
| Crime | 4.31 film | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.47 films | 6.21 film |
| Horror | 4.31 film | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011New Year's Eve
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Walter.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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
2025Play Dirty
The current state of the argument, as Kincaid.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Rusty Borgens
Directed by Josh Boone
as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Directed by Kerry Shawcross
as Andrew Briggman
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
Isaac
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Isaac gives Nat Wolff a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Victor (US version)
Ballerina (2016)
Performance score7.6
Ballerina asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victor (US version) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rusty Borgens
Stuck in Love (2013)
Performance score7.5
Stuck in Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rusty Borgens is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
Performance score7.4
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice) 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 Isaac
Start here. The Fault in Our Stars is the clearest statement of what Nat Wolff does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nat 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.
Stuck in Love (2013)
Same director as The Fault in Our Stars, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Ballerina (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Stuck in Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Kill Team (2019)
Same director as Ballerina, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
Keeps the action register of The Kill Team but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Josh Boone
Director
2 films together
Notably The Fault in Our Stars
Paul Weitz
Director
2 films together
Notably Grandma
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably New Year's Eve
Tony McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Ashby
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Intern
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably In Dubious Battle
Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Again
Adam Wingard
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Note
Kerry Shawcross
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Play Dirty
Alex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Pavements
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Josh Boone
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Fault in Our StarsPaul Weitz
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GrandmaNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternKerry Shawcross
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part OneAlex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PavementsShane Black
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Play DirtyTony McNamara
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AshbyHallie Meyers-Shyer
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home AgainGarry 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
New Year's EveJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Dubious BattleBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peace, Love & MisunderstandingAdam Wingard
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death NoteSix 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 Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
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 Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
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 Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
New Year's Eve
as Walter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
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. Nat Wolff 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
13 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
The Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Play Dirty
as Kincaid
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Fault in Our Stars
as Isaac
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Body Cam
as Danny Holledge
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stuck in Love
as Rusty Borgens
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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