Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5460
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Keith Jardine 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.
Keith Jardine appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Keith. Logan is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 action, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jorma Taccone, Ari Aster, Nick Rowland and others, Keith Jardine 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.
Logan (2017) as Reaver · Only the Brave (2017) as Bouncer #2 · John Wick (2014) as Kuzma
Career snapshot
Ranked #5460 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Logan
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Logan
Most frequent director
Brian Taylor
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Brian Taylor
Most common genre
Thriller
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kid, Bird Box, Logan — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Gamer, Crank: High Voltage.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | — | 6.87 films | 6.12 films |
| Action | 5.92 films | 6.47 films | 6.06 films |
| Thriller | 5.92 films | 6.56 films | 6.09 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.83 films | 6.52 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 6.32 films | 6.64 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Gamer
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mean Slayer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Logan
8.0 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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Todd.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Reaver
Directed by James Mangold
as Bouncer #2
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Kuzma
Directed by Chad Stahelski
as Ripper
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
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
Reaver
Logan (2017)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Reaver gives Keith Jardine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bouncer #2
Only the Brave (2017)
Performance score7.3
Only the Brave asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bouncer #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kuzma
John Wick (2014)
Performance score7.3
John Wick asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kuzma is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Magic
She Rides Shotgun (2025)
Performance score6.9
She Rides Shotgun asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Magic 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 Reaver
Start here. Logan is the clearest statement of what Keith Jardine does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Keith 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.
John Wick (2014)
Keeps the action register of Logan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Only the Brave (2017)
A deliberate change of key after John Wick — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Shot Caller (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Only the Brave but asks for a colder reading of it.
She Rides Shotgun (2025)
Keeps the crime register of Shot Caller but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian Taylor
Director
2 films together
Notably Crank: High Voltage
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Inherent Vice
Chad Stahelski
Director
1 film together
Notably John Wick
Wes Ball
Director
1 film together
Notably Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Only the Brave
Robb Cullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time in Venice
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Shot Caller
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Logan
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird Box
Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Copshop
Millicent Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably End of the Road
James Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together
Notably Hot Seat
James Bamford
Director
1 film together
Notably Jade
Keith Jardine
Director
1 film together
Notably Kill Me Again
Nick Rowland
Director
1 film together
Notably She Rides Shotgun
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddington
Jorma Taccone
Director
1 film together
Notably Over Your Dead Body
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brian Taylor
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Crank: High VoltageJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LoganJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only the BraveChad Stahelski
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John WickNick Rowland
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She Rides ShotgunRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shot CallerSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bird BoxWes Ball
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maze Runner: The Scorch TrialsJorma Taccone
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over Your Dead BodyAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EddingtonPaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inherent ViceJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CopshopKeith Jardine
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill Me AgainMillicent 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
End of the RoadVincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidRobb Cullen
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time in VeniceJames Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hot SeatJames Bamford
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JadeSix 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
Logan
as Reaver
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Only the Brave
as Bouncer #2
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Logan
as Reaver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Only the Brave
as Bouncer #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Logan
as Reaver
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. Keith Jardine 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Logan
as Reaver
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
John Wick
as Kuzma
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Only the Brave
as Bouncer #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inherent Vice
as Puck Beaverton
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Logan
as Reaver
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Surrounded
as Pike
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Only the Brave
as Bouncer #2
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Logan
as Reaver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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