Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10450
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jeremy Roberts represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 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 Roberts appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. Babylon is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Damien Chazelle, Angela Robinson, Gore Verbinski and others, Jeremy Roberts 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.
Babylon (2022) as Studio Employee (Sidney's House) · The Mask (1994) as Bobby the Bouncer · National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) as Cop
Career snapshot
Ranked #10450 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1989–2022
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Babylon
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Babylon
Most frequent director
Damien Chazelle
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Damien Chazelle
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Babylon — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Most productive era
1990s
4 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | — | 7.31 film |
| Action | — | 5.91 film | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 6.73 films | 5.92 films | 7.31 film |
| Crime | — | 6.62 films | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film | 5.92 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1989National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cop.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2022Babylon
7.3 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, as Studio Employee (Sidney's House).
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.
8 of 8 films
as Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Bobby the Bouncer
Directed by Chuck Russell
as Tom Jones
Directed by Josef Rusnak
as Biker #2
Directed by Emile Ardolino
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
Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
Babylon (2022)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Studio Employee (Sidney's House) gives Jeremy Roberts a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bobby the Bouncer
The Mask (1994)
Performance score7.1
The Mask asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bobby the Bouncer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cop
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Performance score7.1
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cop is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tom Jones
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Performance score6.9
The Thirteenth Floor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tom Jones 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 Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
Start here. Babylon is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Roberts does — accessible, 189 minutes, and rated 7.3 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.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Keeps the comedy register of Babylon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sister Act (1992)
Keeps the comedy register of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Mask (1994)
Keeps the comedy register of Sister Act but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
A deliberate change of key after The Mask — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together
Notably National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Emile Ardolino
Director
1 film together
Notably Sister Act
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mask
Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thirteenth Floor
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mexican
Angela Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Herbie Fully Loaded
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabylonChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MaskJeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
National Lampoon's Christmas VacationJosef Rusnak
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Thirteenth FloorEmile Ardolino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sister ActGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MexicanAngela Robinson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Herbie Fully LoadedSix 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 Mask
as Bobby the Bouncer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Crazy Dave
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
as Cop
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babylon
as Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Babylon
as Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
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 Roberts 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
33 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
7 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
The Thirteenth Floor
as Tom Jones
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Thirteenth Floor
as Tom Jones
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Crazy Dave
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Thirteenth Floor
as Tom Jones
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Babylon
as Studio Employee (Sidney's House)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Money Train
as Guard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Crazy Dave
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Mask
as Bobby the Bouncer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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