Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14735
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jeremy Howard represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Jeremy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jeremy Howard appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. Catch Me If You Can is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, family, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Savage Steve Holland, Jonathan Liebesman, Thor Freudenthal and others, Jeremy Howard 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.
Catch Me If You Can (2002) as Teen Waiter · The Cure (1995) as Tyler's Buddy #2 · Galaxy Quest (1999) as Kyle
Career snapshot
Ranked #14735 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1995–2020
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Catch Me If You Can
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Catch Me If You Can
Most frequent director
Savage Steve Holland
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Savage Steve Holland
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
1990s
7.2 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Galaxy Quest, The Cure — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Galaxy Quest, The Cure.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.31 film | 6.92 films | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | 6.02 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.71 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.35 films | 6.13 films | 6.21 film |
| Crime | — | 8.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995The Cure
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tyler's Buddy #2.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.2 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
2020Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave
The current state of the argument, as Vooch.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Tyler's Buddy #2
Directed by Peter Horton
as Kyle
Directed by Dean Parisot
as Drew Lou Who
Directed by Ron Howard
as Donatello
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
Teen Waiter
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teen Waiter gives Jeremy Howard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tyler's Buddy #2
The Cure (1995)
Performance score7.2
The Cure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tyler's Buddy #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kyle
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Performance score7.0
Galaxy Quest asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kyle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Drew Lou Who
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Performance score6.8
How the Grinch Stole Christmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drew Lou Who 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 Teen Waiter
Start here. Catch Me If You Can is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Howard does — accessible, 141 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeremy 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 Cure (1995)
Keeps the drama register of Catch Me If You Can but asks for a colder reading of it.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
A deliberate change of key after The Cure — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Keeps the comedy register of Galaxy Quest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of How the Grinch Stole Christmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Savage Steve Holland
Director
2 films together
Notably Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave
Peter Horton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cure
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Galaxy Quest
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch Me If You Can
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Men in Black II
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Haunted Mansion
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady in the Water
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Accepted
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel for Dogs
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Savage Steve Holland
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Malibu Rescue: The Next WaveSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch Me If You CanPeter Horton
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CureDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Galaxy QuestRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How the Grinch Stole ChristmasSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AcceptedBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men in Black IIThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel for DogsJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Haunted MansionM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady in the WaterSix 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
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Cure
as Tyler's Buddy #2
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
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. Jeremy Howard 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
25 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
10 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
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Cure
as Tyler's Buddy #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Lady in the Water
as Tartutic #1
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Donatello
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Catch Me If You Can
as Teen Waiter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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