Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5468
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jeremy Strong 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.
Jeremy Strong appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. The Gentlemen is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 drama, music, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Sorkin, Scott Cooper, Ali Abbasi and others, Jeremy Strong 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.
The Gentlemen (2020) as Matthew · The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) as Jerry Rubin · The Big Short (2015) as Vinny Daniel
Career snapshot
Ranked #5468 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Gentlemen
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Gentlemen
Most frequent director
Aaron Sorkin
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Aaron Sorkin
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Serenity, Molly's Game, Detroit — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. The Messenger, The Happening.
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 | 6.81 film | 6.710 films | 5.55 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.71 film |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | 6.63 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.22 films | 7.32 films |
| Crime | — | 7.12 films | 7.71 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 4.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Happening
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Private Auster.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Gentlemen
7.7 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
The current state of the argument, as Mark Zuckerberg.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Matthew
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Roy Cohn
Directed by Ali Abbasi
as Dean Keith
Directed by Aaron Sorkin
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
Matthew
The Gentlemen (2020)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Matthew gives Jeremy Strong a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jerry Rubin
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Performance score7.7
The Trial of the Chicago 7 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry Rubin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dale Palmer
The Judge (2014)
Performance score7.4
The Judge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dale Palmer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roy Cohn
The Apprentice (2024)
Performance score7.3
The Apprentice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roy Cohn 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 Matthew
Start here. The Gentlemen is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Strong does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.7 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 Judge (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Gentlemen — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Molly's Game (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Judge but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Same director as Molly's Game, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Apprentice (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Trial of the Chicago 7 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Aaron Sorkin
Director
3 films together
Notably The Trial of the Chicago 7
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
2 films together
Notably Detroit
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Happening
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Robot & Frank
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Lincoln
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parkland
Ava DuVernay
Director
1 film together
Notably Selma
David Dobkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Judge
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Short
Steven Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Serenity
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gentlemen
Ali Abbasi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Apprentice
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Sorkin
Director
3 films together · 5.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Trial of the Chicago 7Kathryn Bigelow
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
DetroitGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GentlemenAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big ShortAva DuVernay
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SelmaDavid Dobkin
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 JudgeAli Abbasi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ApprenticeSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LincolnJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robot & FrankScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Springsteen: Deliver Me from NowherePeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParklandSteven Knight
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SerenityM. Night Shyamalan
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 HappeningSix 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 Trial of the Chicago 7
as Jerry Rubin
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 Trial of the Chicago 7
as Jerry Rubin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Gentlemen
as Matthew
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Selma
as James Reeb
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Gentlemen
as Matthew
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 Strong 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in drama, 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 Trial of the Chicago 7
as Jerry Rubin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Gentlemen
as Matthew
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
as Jon Landau
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Serenity
as Reid Miller
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Gentlemen
as Matthew
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Gentlemen
as Matthew
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Apprentice
as Roy Cohn
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lincoln
as John Nicolay
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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