Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#24669
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jing Lusi 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.
Jing Lusi appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jing. Crazy Rich Asians is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matthew Vaughn, Tom Harper, Magnus Martens and others, Jing Lusi 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.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) as Amanda Ling · Heart of Stone (2023) as Yang · Before I Go to Sleep (2014) as Nurse Kate (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #24669 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2014–2024
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Crazy Rich Asians
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Crazy Rich Asians
Most frequent director
Matthew Vaughn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Matthew Vaughn
Most common genre
Action
4 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
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Crazy Rich Asians, Survivor, Before I Go to Sleep — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Crazy Rich Asians, Survivor, Before I Go to Sleep.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.81 film |
| Action | 5.71 film | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | 6.12 films | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.01 film |
| Crime | 5.71 film | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 7.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nurse Kate (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.1 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
2024Argylle
The current state of the argument, as Li Na.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Yang
Directed by Tom Harper
as Li Na
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as Zada
Directed by Magnus Martens
as Joyce Su
Directed by James McTeigue
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
Amanda Ling
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Amanda Ling gives Jing Lusi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yang
Heart of Stone (2023)
Performance score6.6
Heart of Stone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yang is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Li Na
Argylle (2024)
Performance score6.5
Argylle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Li Na is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zada
SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Performance score6.5
SAS: Red Notice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zada 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 Amanda Ling
Start here. Crazy Rich Asians is the clearest statement of what Jing Lusi does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jing 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.
Survivor (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Crazy Rich Asians — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Keeps the action register of Survivor but asks for a colder reading of it.
Heart of Stone (2023)
Keeps the action register of SAS: Red Notice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Argylle (2024)
Keeps the action register of Heart of Stone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rowan Joffé
Director
1 film together
Notably Before I Go to Sleep
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together
Notably Survivor
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Crazy Rich Asians
Magnus Martens
Director
1 film together
Notably SAS: Red Notice
Tom Harper
Director
1 film together
Notably Heart of Stone
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Argylle
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crazy Rich AsiansTom Harper
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heart of StoneRowan Joffé
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before I Go to SleepMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArgylleMagnus Martens
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SAS: Red NoticeJames McTeigue
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SurvivorSix 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
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Argylle
as Li Na
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
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. Jing Lusi 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.
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
Before I Go to Sleep
as Nurse Kate (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Heart of Stone
as Yang
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Before I Go to Sleep
as Nurse Kate (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Heart of Stone
as Yang
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Argylle
as Li Na
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Crazy Rich Asians
as Amanda Ling
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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