Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12741
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jon Bass 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.
Jon Bass appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jon. Molly's Game 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 science fiction, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kate Hamilton, Jon Bass, Alberto Belli and others, Jon Bass 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.
Molly's Game (2017) as Shelly Habib · How Did I Get Here (2025) as Man · Plus One (2019) as Cartelli
Career snapshot
Ranked #12741 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Molly's Game
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Molly's Game
Most frequent director
Kate Hamilton
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kate Hamilton
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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
6.1
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. Sword of Trust, Plus One, Dog Days — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 7 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. Sword of Trust, Plus One, Dog Days.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.53 films | 2.33 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.25 films | 3.54 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | — |
| Romance | 6.73 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Loving
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Phil Hirschkop.
Highest rated performance
2017Molly's Game
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Visitors
The current state of the argument.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Shelly Habib
Directed by Aaron Sorkin
as Garrett
Directed by Ken Marino
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
How Did I Get Here (2025)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Man gives Jon Bass a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shelly Habib
Molly's Game (2017)
Performance score7.1
Molly's Game asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shelly Habib is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cartelli
Plus One (2019)
Performance score6.7
Plus One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cartelli is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Garrett
Dog Days (2018)
Performance score6.6
Dog Days asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Garrett 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
Start here. How Did I Get Here is the clearest statement of what Jon Bass does — accessible, 18 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jon 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.
Loving (2016)
Keeps the drama register of How Did I Get Here but asks for a colder reading of it.
Molly's Game (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Loving but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog Days (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Molly's Game — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Plus One (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Dog Days but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Baywatch
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Molly's Game
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Days
Jeff Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Plus One
Lynn Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Sword of Trust
Alberto Belli
Director
1 film together
Notably Gatlopp: Hell of a Game
Jon Bass
Director
1 film together
Notably Carole & Grey
Kate Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably How Did I Get Here
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Molly's GameKate Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How Did I Get HereJeff Chan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plus OneKen Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog DaysSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaywatchAlberto Belli
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gatlopp: Hell of a GameLynn Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sword of TrustJon Bass
Director
1 film together · 1.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carole & GreySix 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
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Loving
as Phil Hirschkop
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How Did I Get Here
as Man
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. Jon Bass 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 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
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Loving
as Phil Hirschkop
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Baywatch
as Ronnie Greenbaum
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Molly's Game
as Shelly Habib
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gatlopp: Hell of a Game
as Cliff
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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