Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7801
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Justin Bartha 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.
Justin Bartha appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Justin. Influenced is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 comedy, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian Andrew Mendoza, Nick Hamm, Mark Polish and others, Justin Bartha 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.
Influenced (2026) as Jordan · The Hangover (2009) as Doug Billings · National Treasure (2004) as Riley Poole
Career snapshot
Ranked #7801 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Influenced
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Influenced
Most frequent director
Todd Phillips
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Todd Phillips
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
2020s
7.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Influenced, Dear Zoe, Sweet Girl — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.7
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 Hangover, New York, I Love You, National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
Most productive era
2000s
6 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 | 5.02 films | — | 6.52 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 4.11 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.22 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 5.94 films | 6.32 films | 10.01 film |
| Crime | 4.01 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Romance | 5.33 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Gigli
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Brian.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Influenced
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Jordan.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Jordan
Directed by Unknown
as Doug Billings
Directed by Todd Phillips
as Riley Poole
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
as Riley Poole
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
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
Jordan
Influenced (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jordan gives Justin Bartha a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Doug Billings
The Hangover (2009)
Performance score7.7
The Hangover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doug Billings is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Riley Poole
National Treasure (2004)
Performance score7.1
National Treasure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Riley Poole is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Riley Poole
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Performance score6.9
National Treasure: Book of Secrets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Riley Poole 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 Jordan
Start here. Influenced is the clearest statement of what Justin Bartha does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Justin 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.
National Treasure (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Influenced — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Same director as National Treasure, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Hangover (2009)
A deliberate change of key after National Treasure: Book of Secrets — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hangover Part II (2011)
Same director as The Hangover, 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.
Todd Phillips
Director
3 films together
Notably The Hangover
Jon Turteltaub
Director
2 films together
Notably National Treasure
Martin Brest
Director
1 film together
Notably Gigli
Fatih Akin
Director
1 film together
Notably New York, I Love You
Mark Polish
Director
1 film together
Notably Against the Clock
Nick Hamm
Director
1 film together
Notably Driven
Brian Andrew Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Girl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Todd Phillips
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The HangoverJon Turteltaub
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
National TreasureBrian Andrew Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet GirlNick Hamm
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrivenFatih Akin
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York, I Love YouMark Polish
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Against the ClockMartin Brest
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GigliSix 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
Influenced
as Jordan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
New York, I Love You
as Justin, Sarah's Boyfriend
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Influenced
as Jordan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
New York, I Love You
as Justin, Sarah's Boyfriend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Influenced
as Jordan
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. Justin Bartha 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
23 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
7 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
Influenced
as Jordan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Influenced
as Jordan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
New York, I Love You
as Justin, Sarah's Boyfriend
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Riley Poole
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Influenced
as Jordan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Riley Poole
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Gigli
as Brian
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Hangover
as Doug Billings
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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