Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4000
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Meagan Good 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.
Meagan Good appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Meagan. Death Saved My Life is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 drama, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyler Perry, J.J. Perry, Paul W. S. Anderson and others, Meagan Good 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.
Death Saved My Life (2021) as Jade Thompson · Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024) as Ava Bertrand · Think Like a Man (2012) as Mya
Career snapshot
Ranked #4000 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2003–2024
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Death Saved My Life
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Death Saved My Life
Most frequent director
Tim Story
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tim Story
Most common genre
Thriller
6 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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Day Shift — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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 Unborn, Saw V, The Love Guru.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.52 films | — | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | — | 6.53 films |
| Thriller | 5.72 films | 6.11 film | 7.13 films |
| Comedy | 4.11 film | 6.43 films | 6.62 films |
| Crime | 6.52 films | — | — |
| Romance | 4.11 film | 6.62 films | — |
| Horror | 5.72 films | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Biker Boyz
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tina.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2024Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
The current state of the argument, as Ava Bertrand.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Jade Thompson
Directed by Unknown
as Mya
Directed by Tim Story
as Kara
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Jocelyn Jablonski
Directed by J.J. Perry
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
Jade Thompson
Death Saved My Life (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jade Thompson gives Meagan Good a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ava Bertrand
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024)
Performance score7.8
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ava Bertrand is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mya
Think Like a Man (2012)
Performance score7.2
Think Like a Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mya is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kara
Brick (2006)
Performance score7.0
Brick asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kara 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 Jade Thompson
Start here. Death Saved My Life is the clearest statement of what Meagan Good does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Meagan 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.
Brick (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Death Saved My Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
Think Like a Man (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Brick — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Day Shift (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Think Like a Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024)
Keeps the thriller register of Day Shift but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Story
Director
2 films together
Notably Think Like a Man
Reggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together
Notably Biker Boyz
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Brick
Marco Schnabel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Love Guru
David Hackl
Director
1 film together
Notably Saw V
David S. Goyer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unborn
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Hunter
J.J. Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Day Shift
Tyler Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Story
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
Think Like a ManTyler Perry
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the BlackRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrickJ.J. Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Day ShiftPaul W. S. 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
Monster HunterReggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Biker BoyzDavid Hackl
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saw VAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesDavid S. Goyer
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The UnbornMarco Schnabel
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Love GuruSix 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
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
as Ava Bertrand
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
as Ava Bertrand
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Death Saved My Life
as Jade Thompson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
as Super Hero Darla
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Death Saved My Life
as Jade Thompson
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. Meagan Good 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
21 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 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
Brick
as Kara
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Brick
as Kara
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
as Ava Bertrand
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Brick
as Kara
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Monster Hunter
as Dash
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Monster Hunter
as Dash
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
as Ava Bertrand
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Intruder
as Annie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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