Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4900
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eddie Jemison 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.
Eddie Jemison appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eddie. Ocean's Eleven 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, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jordan Peele, Todd Phillips, Rob Thomas and others, Eddie Jemison 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.
Ocean's Eleven (2001) as Livingston Dell · War Dogs (2016) as Hilldale Home Manager · Bruce Almighty (2003) as Bobby
Career snapshot
Ranked #4900 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2001–2022
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Ocean's Eleven
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Ocean's Eleven
Most frequent director
Jordan Peele
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jordan Peele
Most common genre
Crime
7 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
6.5
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. War Dogs, Veronica Mars — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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 Informant!, All About Steve, Ocean's Thirteen.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 | 6.43 films | 6.82 films | — |
| Action | 6.41 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.03 films | — | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.24 films | 6.82 films | — |
| Crime | 6.75 films | 6.82 films | — |
| Romance | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Ocean's Eleven
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Livingston Dell. 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
2022Nope
The current state of the argument, as Buster.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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11 of 11 films
as Livingston Dell
Directed by Unknown
as Hilldale Home Manager
Directed by Todd Phillips
as Bobby
Directed by Tom Shadyac
as Buster
Directed by Jordan Peele
as Livingston Dell
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
Livingston Dell
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Livingston Dell gives Eddie Jemison a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hilldale Home Manager
War Dogs (2016)
Performance score6.9
War Dogs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hilldale Home Manager is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bobby
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Performance score6.8
Bruce Almighty asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bobby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Buster
Nope (2022)
Performance score6.7
Nope asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Buster 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 Livingston Dell
Start here. Ocean's Eleven is the clearest statement of what Eddie Jemison does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eddie 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.
Bruce Almighty (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Ocean's Eleven — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Bruce Almighty — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
War Dogs (2016)
Keeps the crime register of Ocean's Thirteen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Nope (2022)
A deliberate change of key after War Dogs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Bruce Almighty
Jonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Punisher
Adrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Waitress
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably All About Steve
Rob Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Veronica Mars
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably War Dogs
Jordan Peele
Director
1 film together
Notably Nope
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War DogsTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bruce AlmightyJordan Peele
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NopeAdrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WaitressRob Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Veronica MarsJonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PunisherPhil Traill
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All About SteveSix 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
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Waitress
as Ogie Anhorn
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
All About Steve
as Psychiatrist with Crossword Puzzle (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
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. Eddie Jemison 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Crime Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in crime, 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
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Waitress
as Ogie Anhorn
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ocean's Eleven
as Livingston Dell
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Punisher
as Mickey Duka
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
War Dogs
as Hilldale Home Manager
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bruce Almighty
as Bobby
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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