Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1186
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Megan Fox 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.
Megan Fox appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Megan. Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 horror, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mod Sun, Adam Randall, Gil Junger and others, Megan Fox 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.
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink (2022) as Self · Transformers (2007) as Mikaela Banes · Till Death (2021) as Emma
Career snapshot
Ranked #1186 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
Most frequent director
Michael Bay
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Michael Bay
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Jennifer's Body, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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, Jennifer's Body, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 6.01 film | 6.32 films | 5.83 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 6.02 films | 5.85 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.01 film | 6.27 films |
| Comedy | 5.93 films | 6.05 films | 5.43 films |
| Crime | 6.01 film | — | 5.42 films |
| Romance | 6.02 films | 6.32 films | 4.71 film |
| Horror | 6.01 film | — | 6.64 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Brianna.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
7.7 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 Toy Chica (voice).
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.
28 of 28 films
as Emma
Directed by Unknown
as Mikaela Banes
Directed by Michael Bay
as Alice
Directed by Unknown
as Ellen
Directed by Gil Junger
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
Self
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Megan Fox a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Emma
Till Death (2021)
Performance score7.4
Till Death asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emma is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mikaela Banes
Transformers (2007)
Performance score7.4
Transformers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mikaela Banes is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alice
Subservience (2024)
Performance score7.3
Subservience asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice 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 Self
Start here. Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink is the clearest statement of what Megan Fox does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Megan 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.
Transformers (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Think Like a Dog (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Transformers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Till Death (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Think Like a Dog — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Subservience (2024)
Same director as Till Death, 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
2 films together
Notably Transformers
Robert B. Weide
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
Larry Charles
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dictator
Jennifer Westfeldt
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends with Kids
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is 40
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
MJ Bassett
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue
Gil Junger
Director
1 film together
Notably Think Like a Dog
Adam Randall
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Teeth
Mod Sun
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Mourning
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Bay
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
TransformersGil 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 DogAdam Randall
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night TeethLarry Charles
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DictatorJennifer Westfeldt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends with KidsKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodyRobert B. Weide
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is 40MJ Bassett
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RogueMod Sun
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good MourningSix 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
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Above the Shadows
as Juliana
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
as Toy Chica (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
as Self
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. Megan Fox 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
24 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
11 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
Machine Gun Kelly's Life In Pink
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Till Death
as Emma
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Taurus
as Mae
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Midnight in the Switchgrass
as Rebecca Lombardo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Transformers
as Mikaela Banes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Expend4bles
as Gina
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Sophie Maes
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Transformers
as Mikaela Banes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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