Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3513
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jennifer Kim 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.
Jennifer Kim appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jennifer. Act One is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 thriller, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sophia Takal, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Nicol Paone and others, Jennifer Kim 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.
Act One (2026) · Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Ferry Mom · Swiped (2025) as Reporter
Career snapshot
Ranked #3513 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Act One
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Act One
Most frequent director
Sophia Takal
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sophia Takal
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Confessions of a Shopaholic — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | — | 5.91 film | 4.54 films |
| Action | — | 6.92 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film | 7.33 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 5.32 films | 3.83 films |
| Crime | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Romance | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 4.81 film | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Confessions of a Shopaholic
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Denny & George Clerk.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Act One
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Ferry Mom
Directed by Jon Watts
as Reporter
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
as Mae
Directed by Nicol Paone
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
Act One
Act One (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Jennifer Kim a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ferry Mom
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ferry Mom is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reporter
Swiped (2025)
Performance score6.6
Swiped asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reporter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mae
The Kill Room (2023)
Performance score6.5
The Kill Room asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mae 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
Start here. Act One is the clearest statement of what Jennifer Kim does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jennifer 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.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Act One — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Event (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Homecoming — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Kill Room (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Event but asks for a colder reading of it.
Swiped (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Kill Room — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Shopaholic
Tony Gilroy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bourne Legacy
Alex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Listen Up Philip
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Patrick Brice
Director
1 film together
Notably Corporate Animals
Amy Seimetz
Director
1 film together
Notably She Dies Tomorrow
Lawrence Michael Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Bear
Nicol Paone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kill Room
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Swiped
Sophia Takal
Director
1 film together
Notably Act One
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sophia Takal
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Act OneJon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwipedP.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a ShopaholicLawrence Michael Levine
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black BearTony Gilroy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bourne LegacyNicol Paone
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kill RoomAlex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Listen Up PhilipAmy Seimetz
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She Dies TomorrowPatrick Brice
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Corporate AnimalsSix 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
Act One
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Swiped
as Reporter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Act One
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ferry Mom
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Act One
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. Jennifer Kim 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
Act One
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Act One
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swiped
as Reporter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Act One
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Act One
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ferry Mom
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Swiped
as Reporter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ferry Mom
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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