Nickolas Gene Carter (born January 28, 1980) is an American musician, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of the pop group the Backstreet Boys. As of 2015, Carter has released three solo albums, Now or Never, I'm Taking Off and All American during breaks between Backstreet Boys schedules, and a collaboration with Jordan Knight titled Nick & Knight. He has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I (Heart) Nick Carter. He gained fame in the mid 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 28, 1980 (46)
- Jamestown, New York, USA
- Actor, producer and writer
- 10 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Nick Carter's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 2 · Earnest 4
Light 4 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
Grounded 4 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 3 · Charged 3 · Intense 0
Steady 5 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 6 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Trickster: 2 of 3 analyzed roles.
- Tricksteras Brody in The Hollow (2004)
- Tricksteras Foreman in Kill Speed (2010)
- Heroas Jack in Dead 7 (2016)
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet3
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Nick Carter's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on The Roku Channel (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Nick Carter's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page; 76 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Masked Singer(2019)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
Boy Band (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Dead 7(2016)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
I (Heart) Nick Carter(2014)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Undateable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
This Is the End(2013)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
The Pendant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Kill Speed(2010)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
90210(2008)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
House of Carters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
The Hollow(2004)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
American Dreams (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
8 Simple Rules(2002)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all showsThe Making of What's Going On: All-Star Tribute (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows
Judgment(1990)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 73rd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 16 titles from 1990 to 2019; peak year 2016.
Biggest box office
Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015)
Highest rated
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (2019)
Film career
Peak 2016 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2004Screen debut· The Hollow
- 2016First top-billed film· Dead 7
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Nick Carter's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 17th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 10 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the acting 31/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 53, detractors 13. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Nick Carter work with?
People who share at least 2 of Nick Carter's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; A.J. McLean shares the most, 4.
Actors
- A.J. McLeanShared titles: Dead 7 (2016), Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015), I (Heart) Nick Carter (2014), Backstreet Boys: All Access Video (1998)See all 4 shared titles with A.J. McLean
- Howie DoroughShared titles: Dead 7 (2016), Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015), I (Heart) Nick Carter (2014), Backstreet Boys: All Access Video (1998)See all 4 shared titles with Howie Dorough
- Lauren Kitt CarterShared titles: Dead 7 (2016), I (Heart) Nick Carter (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Lauren Kitt Carter
- Brian LittrellShared titles: Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015), Backstreet Boys: All Access Video (1998)See all 2 shared titles with Brian Littrell
Producers
- Leah HorwitzShared titles: Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of (2015), I (Heart) Nick Carter (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Leah Horwitz