Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12325
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jimmy Star represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Jimmy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jimmy Star appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jimmy. It is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 music, drama, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Muschietti, Jon Favreau, Justin Lin and others, Jimmy Star 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.
It (2017) as Man in Car (uncredited) · Chef (2014) as Restaurant Patron (uncredited) · X-Men (2000) as Police Officer (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12325 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1994–2020
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
It
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
It
Most frequent director
Andy Muschietti
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Andy Muschietti
Most common genre
Action
4 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
6.5
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. It, Chef, Fast & Furious 6 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.41 film | 7.21 film | 3.91 film |
| Action | — | 6.63 films | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film | 7.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | 6.31 film | 7.11 film | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.41 film | 6.81 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Stadium Vendor (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017It
7.2 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
2020Stardust
The current state of the argument, as Concert Goer (uncredited).
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.
9 of 9 films
as Man in Car (uncredited)
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Directed by Jon Favreau
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Race Onlooker (uncredited)
Directed by Justin Lin
as Stadium Vendor (uncredited)
Directed by Tom Shadyac
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
Man in Car (uncredited)
It (2017)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Man in Car (uncredited) gives Jimmy Star a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Chef (2014)
Performance score7.0
Chef asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Restaurant Patron (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Police Officer (uncredited)
X-Men (2000)
Performance score6.9
X-Men asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Police Officer (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Race Onlooker (uncredited)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Performance score6.7
Fast & Furious 6 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Race Onlooker (uncredited) 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 Man in Car (uncredited)
Start here. It is the clearest statement of what Jimmy Star does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jimmy 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.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
A deliberate change of key after It — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
X-Men (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Ace Ventura: Pet Detective — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Keeps the action register of X-Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chef (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Fast & Furious 6 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men
Jonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Punisher
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet the Fockers
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Race
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious 6
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Chef
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably It
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ItJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChefBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-MenJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious 6Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ace Ventura: Pet DetectiveJonathan Hensleigh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PunisherPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death RaceJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet the FockersSix 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
It
as Man in Car (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardust
as Concert Goer (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
It
as Man in Car (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
It
as Man in Car (uncredited)
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. Jimmy Star 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
26 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Stadium Vendor (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
It
as Man in Car (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stardust
as Concert Goer (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Stadium Vendor (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stardust
as Concert Goer (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Stadium Vendor (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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