Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6223
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jeff Ross 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.
Jeff Ross appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeff. KillTonyMania is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, action, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Beth McCarthy-Miller, Seth Barrish, Peter Farrelly and others, Jeff Ross 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.
KillTonyMania (2026) as Self · The Roast of Tom Brady (2024) as Self · Half Baked: Totally High (2024) as Comedian
Career snapshot
Ranked #6223 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
KillTonyMania
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
KillTonyMania
Most frequent director
Beth McCarthy-Miller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Beth McCarthy-Miller
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.3
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
6.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. KillTonyMania, The Roast of Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.1
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.1
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. Jackass 2.5, American Dreamz, Along Came Polly.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 5.11 film | — | 6.01 film |
| Action | 6.01 film | — | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 5.75 films | 5.73 films | 6.110 films |
| Crime | 6.01 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Security Guard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026KillTonyMania
7.4 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
2026Saturday Night's Main Event XLV
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.
18 of 18 films
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
KillTonyMania (2026)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Jeff Ross a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
The Roast of Tom Brady (2024)
Performance score7.2
The Roast of Tom Brady asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (2026)
Performance score6.7
Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Comedian
Half Baked: Totally High (2024)
Performance score6.6
Half Baked: Totally High asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Comedian 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. KillTonyMania is the clearest statement of what Jeff Ross does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeff 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 Roast of Tom Brady (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of KillTonyMania but asks for a colder reading of it.
Half Baked: Totally High (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The Roast of Tom Brady but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Half Baked: Totally High but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Roast of Kevin Hart (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably The Roast of Tom Brady
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck on You
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably National Security
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Along Came Polly
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Dreamz
Jeff Tremaine
Director
1 film together
Notably Jackass 2.5
Jeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Ringer
Jay Karas
Director
1 film together
Notably Feeding America Comedy Festival
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute
Michael Tiddes
Director
1 film together
Notably Half Baked: Totally High
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Ricky Stanicky
Seth Barrish
Director
1 film together
Notably Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Roast of Tom BradyMichael Tiddes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Half Baked: Totally HighPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ricky StanickyJeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wedding RingerJeff Tremaine
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jackass 2.5John Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Along Came PollyDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
National SecuritySeth Barrish
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the RideJay Karas
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Feeding America Comedy FestivalBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck on YouPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American DreamzMike Binder
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget TributeSix 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
KillTonyMania
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
Along Came Polly
as Wedding Band Leader
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
KillTonyMania
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stuck on You
as Beaze Security Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
KillTonyMania
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. Jeff Ross 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
23 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
18 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
KillTonyMania
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
KillTonyMania
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Along Came Polly
as Wedding Band Leader
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
KillTonyMania
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
KillTonyMania
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Saturday Night's Main Event XLV
as Self
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Dreamz
as Oscar
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jackass 2.5
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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