Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2001
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jamie Chung 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.
Jamie Chung appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jamie. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kerry Shawcross, Sam Liu, Renny Harlin and others, Jamie Chung 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.
DC Showcase: Death (2019) as Death (voice) · Big Hero 6 (2014) as GoGo Tomago (voice) · Rudderless (2014) as Lisa Martin
Career snapshot
Ranked #2001 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Most frequent director
Sam Liu
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Sam Liu
Most common genre
Action
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. DC Showcase: Death, Office Christmas Party, Big Hero 6 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Dragonball Evolution, Princess Protection Program, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.61 film | 7.82 films | — |
| Action | 2.91 film | 6.55 films | 6.45 films |
| Thriller | 2.91 film | 6.33 films | 6.03 films |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.76 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.42 films | 6.52 films |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hooters Girl.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2025Stone Cold Fox
The current state of the argument, as Officer Corbett.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Death (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Lisa Martin
Directed by William H. Macy
as Death (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Julia Byron Lee
Directed by Michael M. Scott
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
Death (voice)
DC Showcase: Death (2019)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Death (voice) gives Jamie Chung a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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GoGo Tomago (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score8.0
Big Hero 6 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. GoGo Tomago (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lisa Martin
Rudderless (2014)
Performance score7.1
Rudderless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lisa Martin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Death (voice)
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Performance score7.0
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Death (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 Death (voice)
Start here. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest statement of what Jamie Chung does — accessible, 19 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jamie 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.
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Keeps the animation register of DC Showcase: Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rudderless (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Big Hero 6 but asks for a colder reading of it.
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Rudderless — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dangerous Lies (2020)
A deliberate change of key after DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dennis Dugan
Director
2 films together
Notably Grown Ups
Todd Phillips
Director
2 films together
Notably The Hangover Part II
Sam Liu
Director
2 films together
Notably DC Showcase: Death
Allison Liddi-Brown
Director
1 film together
Notably Princess Protection Program
James Wong
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragonball Evolution
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Sucker Punch
David Koepp
Director
1 film together
Notably Premium Rush
RZA
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Fists
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably Rudderless
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Christmas Party
Michael M. Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Dangerous Lies
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Misfits
Kerry Shawcross
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Liu
Director
2 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
DC Showcase: DeathTodd Phillips
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hangover Part IIDennis Dugan
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Grown UpsChris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6William H. Macy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RudderlessBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyKerry Shawcross
Director
1 film together · 6.8 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 TwoAllison Liddi-Brown
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Princess Protection ProgramFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForDavid Koepp
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Premium RushMichael M. Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dangerous LiesZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sucker PunchJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office Christmas PartyRZA
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron FistsRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MisfitsJames Wong
Director
1 film together · 2.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragonball EvolutionSix 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
Big Hero 6
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
DC Showcase: Death
as Death (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
DC Showcase: Death
as Death (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
as Hooters Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
DC Showcase: Death
as Death (voice)
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. Jamie Chung 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
11 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
DC Showcase: Death
as Death (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Big Hero 6
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
DC Showcase: Death
as Death (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Reunion
as Jasmine Park
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big Hero 6
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two
as Black Canary (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Big Hero 6
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Big Hero 6
as GoGo Tomago (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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