Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2885
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jacob Elordi 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.
Jacob Elordi appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jacob. Frankenstein 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 romance, drama, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Emerald Fennell, Sam Levinson, Ridley Scott and others, Jacob Elordi 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.
Frankenstein (2025) as The Creature · The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) as Noah Flynn · Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson (2025) as Self - The Creature
Career snapshot
Ranked #2885 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Frankenstein
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Frankenstein
Most frequent director
Emerald Fennell
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Emerald Fennell
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
2010s
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kissing Booth — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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 Kissing Booth.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | — | 6.59 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.64 films |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 6.55 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film |
| Romance | 7.21 film | 6.96 films |
| Horror | — | 7.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Noah Flynn.
Highest rated performance
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
20202 Hearts
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Dog Stars
The current state of the argument, as Hig.
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 The Creature
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Chris
Directed by Lance Hool
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
The Creature
Frankenstein (2025)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Creature gives Jacob Elordi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Chris
2 Hearts (2020)
Performance score7.9
2 Hearts asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chris is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Noah Flynn
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)
Performance score7.9
The Kissing Booth 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Noah Flynn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self - The Creature
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson (2025)
Performance score7.6
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - The Creature 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 The Creature
Start here. Frankenstein is the clearest statement of what Jacob Elordi does — accessible, 150 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jacob 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 Kissing Booth (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Frankenstein — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
2 Hearts (2020)
Keeps the romance register of The Kissing Booth but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)
Keeps the romance register of 2 Hearts but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson (2025)
Same director as The Kissing Booth 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Emerald Fennell
Director
2 films together
Notably Saltburn
Dean Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
Lance Hool
Director
1 film together
Notably 2 Hearts
Adrian Lyne
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Water
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Priscilla
Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably Oh, Canada
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Netflix Tudum 2025
Daniel Minahan
Director
1 film together
Notably On Swift Horses
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Frankenstein
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dog Stars
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria: A Look Back
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Emerald Fennell
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SaltburnGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrankensteinLance Hool
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
2 HeartsSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PriscillaDaniel Minahan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On Swift HorsesAdrian Lyne
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep WaterPaul Schrader
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oh, CanadaBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Netflix Tudum 2025Dean Murphy
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Very Excellent Mr. DundeeSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Euphoria: A Look BackRidley Scott
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 Dog StarsSix 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 Kissing Booth 2
as Noah Flynn
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
2 Hearts
as Chris
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 Kissing Booth 2
as Noah Flynn
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Frankenstein
as The Creature
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. Jacob Elordi 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
9 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
Frankenstein
as The Creature
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Frankenstein
as The Creature
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
"Wuthering Heights"
as Heathcliff
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Deep Water
as Charlie De Lisle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Frankenstein
as The Creature
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Frankenstein
as The Creature
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
2 Hearts
as Chris
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
as Self - The Creature
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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