Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7081
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alex Moffat 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.
Alex Moffat appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alex. Clifford the Big Red Dog is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyler Spindel, Jillian Bell, Kyle Marvin and others, Alex Moffat 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.
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021) as Albert · Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) as Jimmy (voice) · Holidate (2020) as Peter
Career snapshot
Ranked #7081 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Most frequent director
Tyler Spindel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tyler Spindel
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.1
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Someone Great, Ralph Breaks the Internet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Someone Great, Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.32 films |
| Action | 7.21 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 5.99 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 5.74 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jimmy (voice). 7.2 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
2026Howl
The current state of the argument, as Connor.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Albert
Directed by Unknown
as Jimmy (voice)
Directed by Phil Johnston
as Peter
Directed by John Whitesell
as Rawn
Directed by Tyler Spindel
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
Albert
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Albert gives Alex Moffat a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jimmy (voice)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Performance score7.1
Ralph Breaks the Internet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimmy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter
Holidate (2020)
Performance score6.9
Holidate asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Connor
Howl (2026)
Performance score6.5
Howl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Connor 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 Albert
Start here. Clifford the Big Red Dog is the clearest statement of what Alex Moffat does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alex 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.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Clifford the Big Red Dog but asks for a colder reading of it.
Holidate (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Ralph Breaks the Internet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kinda Pregnant (2025)
Keeps the romance register of Holidate but asks for a colder reading of it.
Howl (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Kinda Pregnant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Someone Great
Steve Byrne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Opening Act
John Whitesell
Director
1 film together
Notably Holidate
Clare Niederpruem
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas with the Campbells
Sophie Kargman
Director
1 film together
Notably Susie Searches
Kyle Marvin
Director
1 film together
Notably 80 for Brady
Jillian Bell
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer of 69
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably Kinda Pregnant
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetJohn Whitesell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HolidateJillian Bell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer of 69Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Someone GreatKyle Marvin
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
80 for BradyTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kinda PregnantClare Niederpruem
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas with the CampbellsSophie Kargman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Susie SearchesSteve Byrne
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Opening ActSix 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
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (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
Clifford the Big Red Dog
as Albert
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Clifford the Big Red Dog
as Albert
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. Alex Moffat 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.
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
Clifford the Big Red Dog
as Albert
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Christmas with the Campbells
as Shawn
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Susie Searches
as Hayden Powers
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Jimmy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Clifford the Big Red Dog
as Albert
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Clifford the Big Red Dog
as Albert
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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