Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#278
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wyatt Russell represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Wyatt is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Wyatt Russell appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wyatt. Disclosure Day is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Steven Spielberg, Jake Schreier and others, Wyatt Russell 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.
Disclosure Day (2026) as Jackson · Thunderbolts* (2025) as John Walker · Broke (2025) as True Brandywine
Career snapshot
Ranked #278 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
1987–2027
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Disclosure Day
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Disclosure Day
Most frequent director
Anthony Russo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Anthony Russo
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.6
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
1980s
6.8 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Overboard — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Overboard.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.41 film | 6.22 films | 7.11 film |
| Action | — | 6.22 films | 6.32 films | 4.63 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film | 5.71 film | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | — | 6.17 films | 5.91 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.81 film | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.71 film | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1987Overboard
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Baby at Golf Course (uncredited).
Career peak
2025Broke
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2026Disclosure Day
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as John Walker.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Jackson
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as John Walker
Directed by Jake Schreier
as Zook
Directed by Phil Lord
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
Jackson
Disclosure Day (2026)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jackson gives Wyatt Russell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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True Brandywine
Broke (2025)
Performance score7.7
Broke asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. True Brandywine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Walker
Thunderbolts* (2025)
Performance score7.5
Thunderbolts* asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Walker is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ford
Overlord (2018)
Performance score7.1
Overlord asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ford 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 Jackson
Start here. Disclosure Day is the clearest statement of what Wyatt Russell does — accessible, 146 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Wyatt 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.
22 Jump Street (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Disclosure Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Overlord (2018)
A deliberate change of key after 22 Jump Street — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Broke (2025)
Same director as Overlord, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Thunderbolts* (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Broke — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Overboard
John Carpenter
Director
1 film together
Notably Escape from L.A.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Soldier
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Cowboys & Aliens
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is 40
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably 22 Jump Street
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Everybody Wants Some!!
Matt Spicer
Director
1 film together
Notably Ingrid Goes West
Jeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Table 19
Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together
Notably Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Woman in the Window
Bryce McGuire
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Swim
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Cordially Invited
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolts*
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Disclosure Day
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdaySteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disclosure DayJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolts*Phil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
22 Jump StreetGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OverboardMatt Spicer
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ingrid Goes WestRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everybody Wants Some!!Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SoldierJoe Wright
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 Woman in the WindowNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Cordially InvitedJeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Table 19Judd 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 40John Carpenter
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Escape from L.A.Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goon: Last of the EnforcersJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cowboys & AliensBryce McGuire
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night SwimSix 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
Disclosure Day
as Jackson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Overboard
as Baby at Golf Course (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Disclosure Day
as Jackson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Overboard
as Baby at Golf Course (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Disclosure Day
as Jackson
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. Wyatt Russell 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
40 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
9 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
Disclosure Day
as Jackson
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Disclosure Day
as Jackson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You're Cordially Invited
as Masked Dancer Host
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Woman in the Window
as David Winter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Thunderbolts*
as John Walker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Thunderbolts*
as John Walker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Broke
as True Brandywine
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as John Walker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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