JEREMY
RENNER

Jeremy Renner’s two Oscar nominations provide a useful starting point for exploring his work. The Hurt Locker brought a lead-actor nomination at the 2010 ceremony; The Town brought a supporting-actor nomination in 2011. Both films ask a viewer to watch people whose relationship with danger has become part of everyday life. In FLM.RED’s reading, Renner is compelling when practical competence gives little reassurance about the choices a character will make next.

Renner was born in Modesto, California, on 7 January 1971. His later action work includes Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (2015). These productions offer a different scale from the dramas that brought the Oscar nominations. Watching the team relationships is one way to connect them: a character’s ability to act quickly still has to coexist with another person’s plan, doubts or claim to authority.

Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, became another sustained screen identity. In the 2021 Disney+ series Hawkeye, Renner stars alongside Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop. FLM.RED is interested in the ordinary obligations that surround the spectacular action: a person can be highly capable and still be tired, impatient or eager to finish a difficult day. That shift in scale gives a familiar superhero room to be read through the rhythms of a conversation as well as an action sequence.

Mayor of Kingstown places him in the role of Mike McLusky, a power broker within a town shaped by its prison system. The television format lets negotiation and its consequences accumulate over time. For a viewer arriving through Hawkeye, it provides another setting in which to watch Renner work with pressure, loyalty and the limits of control. The film collection below is drawn from titles currently associated with him in FLM.RED; it is not a complete filmography or a list of all his television work.