Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1006
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Josh Duhamel 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.
Josh Duhamel appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Josh. Love, Simon is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 western, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Potsy Ponciroli, David Lipper, Josh Duhamel and others, Josh Duhamel 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.
Love, Simon (2018) as Jack · Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021) as Harvey Dent (voice) · Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021) as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1006 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2007–2027
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Love, Simon
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Love, Simon
Most frequent director
Michael Bay
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Michael Bay
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.3
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | — | 6.27 films | 6.64 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 6.13 films | 6.57 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.93 films | 6.15 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.07 films | 6.16 films |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film | 6.75 films |
| Romance | — | 6.45 films | 6.52 films |
| Horror | — | 5.01 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Transformers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Captain Lennox.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Love, Simon
7.9 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
2027The Rescue
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.
34 of 34 films
as Jack
Directed by Greg Berlanti
as Harvey Dent (voice)
Directed by Chris Palmer
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Directed by Chris Palmer
as Alex Wheatley
Directed by Lasse Hallström
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
Jack
Love, Simon (2018)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jack gives Josh Duhamel a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Harvey Dent (voice)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Performance score7.8
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvey Dent (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Performance score7.7
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Evan
You're Not You (2014)
Performance score7.7
You're Not You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Evan 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 Jack
Start here. Love, Simon is the clearest statement of what Josh Duhamel does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Josh 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.
Safe Haven (2013)
Keeps the romance register of Love, Simon but asks for a colder reading of it.
You're Not You (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Safe Haven — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
A deliberate change of key after You're Not You — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Same director as Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Bay
Director
4 films together
Notably Transformers
Josh Duhamel
Director
3 films together
Notably Preschool
Chris Palmer
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably When in Rome
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Ramona and Beezus
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably New Year's Eve
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Safe Haven
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Shintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Misconduct
Dax Shepard
Director
1 film together
Notably CHiPs
Giancarlo Esposito
Director
1 film together
Notably The Show
Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Simon
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably Capsized: Blood in the Water
Gil Junger
Director
1 film together
Notably Think Like a Dog
Sam Macaroni
Director
1 film together
Notably Blackout
Christian Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist
Jason Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Shotgun Wedding
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Not Without Hope
David Lipper
Director
1 film together
Notably Neglected
Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rescue
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Bay
Director
4 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TransformersJosh Duhamel
Director
3 films together · 5.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
PreschoolChris Palmer
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part OneGreg Berlanti
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, SimonLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Safe HavenGil Junger
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Think Like a DogElizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ramona and BeezusDavid Lipper
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NeglectedJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Not Without HopeJason Moore
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shotgun WeddingDax Shepard
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CHiPsGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New Year's EveMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When in RomeChristian Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful HeistGiancarlo Esposito
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ShowShintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MisconductSam Macaroni
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackoutRoel Reiné
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Capsized: Blood in the WaterBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RescueSix 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
Love, Simon
as Jack
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love, Simon
as Jack
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Love, Simon
as Jack
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
CHiPs
as Rick
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Love, Simon
as Jack
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. Josh Duhamel 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
20 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
13 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
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
as Harvey Dent (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
as Harvey Dent (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Lost Husband
as James O'Connor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
as Harvey Dent (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
as Harvey Dent (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Blackout
as Cain
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love, Simon
as Jack
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Transformers
as Captain Lennox
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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