Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Aaron LaPlante appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aaron. GOAT is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, comedy, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyree Dillihay, Genndy Tartakovsky, Derek Drymon and others, Aaron LaPlante 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.
GOAT (2026) as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice) · Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) as Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice) · Vivo (2021) as Key West Dog (voice)
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Aaron LaPlante.
Films in Nutevio
8
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
GOAT
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
GOAT
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. GOAT, Fixed, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Hotel Transylvania 2.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.44 films | 7.04 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Movie 43
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Friend (segment "The Proposition").
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026GOAT
7.8 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. The current state of the argument, as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (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.
8 of 8 films
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
Directed by Tyree Dillihay
as Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice)
Directed by Derek Drymon
as Doctor Crawdaddy (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Key West Dog (voice)
Directed by Kirk DeMicco
as Gremlins / Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
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
Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
GOAT (2026)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice) gives Aaron LaPlante a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice)
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Performance score7.0
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doctor Crawdaddy (voice)
Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham (2019)
Performance score7.0
Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doctor Crawdaddy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Key West Dog (voice)
Vivo (2021)
Performance score6.9
Vivo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Key West Dog (voice) 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 Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
Start here. GOAT is the clearest statement of what Aaron LaPlante does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aaron 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.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of GOAT but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Vivo (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Vivo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Vivo
Derek Drymon
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together
Notably GOAT
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationTyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GOATDerek Drymon
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania: TransformaniaKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VivoBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Six 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
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Vivo
as Key West Dog (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Movie 43
as Friend (segment "The Proposition")
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
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. Aaron LaPlante 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Vivo
as Key West Dog (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
as Gremlin Pilot / Gremlin Stewardess (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
GOAT
as Moe the Diner Pig / Press Bear / Diner Parrot (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham
as Doctor Crawdaddy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Vivo
as Key West Dog (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Movie 43
as Friend (segment "The Proposition")
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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