Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9384
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ali Hillis 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.
Ali Hillis appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ali. Regular Show: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 J.G. Quintel, Jeff Lowell, Raja Gosnell and others, Ali Hillis 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.
Regular Show: The Movie (2015) as Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice) · Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) as Marleah · Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023) as Tessa the Agency Receptionist
Career snapshot
Ranked #9384 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2005–2023
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Regular Show: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Regular Show: The Movie
Most frequent director
J.G. Quintel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With J.G. Quintel
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.3
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Regular Show: The Movie, The Road Within — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Over Her Dead Body, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, The Heartbreak Kid.
Most productive era
2000s
7 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.51 film | 6.81 film | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.16 films | 7.12 films | 7.01 film |
| Crime | 7.21 film | — | — |
| Romance | 5.73 films | — | 7.01 film |
| Horror | 5.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Marleah.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Tessa the Agency Receptionist.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice)
Directed by J.G. Quintel
as Marleah
Directed by Shane Black
as Monica
Directed by Unknown
as Tessa the Agency Receptionist
Directed by Unknown
as Meg Griffin (singing voice) / Various Characters (voice)
Directed by Pete Michels
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
Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice)
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice) gives Ali Hillis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marleah
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Performance score7.1
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marleah is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Monica
The Road Within (2014)
Performance score7.0
The Road Within asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Monica is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tessa the Agency Receptionist
Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)
Performance score6.9
Sitting in Bars with Cake asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tessa the Agency Receptionist 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 Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice)
Start here. Regular Show: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Ali Hillis does — accessible, 69 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ali 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.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Keeps the comedy register of Regular Show: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
Keeps the comedy register of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Road Within (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)
Same director as The Road Within, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Pete Michels
Director
1 film together
Notably Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Gary David Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Must Love Dogs
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heartbreak Kid
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Jeff Lowell
Director
1 film together
Notably Over Her Dead Body
J.G. Quintel
Director
1 film together
Notably Regular Show: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.G. Quintel
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Regular Show: The MovieShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss Kiss Bang BangPete Michels
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stewie Griffin: The Untold StoryGary David Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Must Love DogsBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Heartbreak KidJeff Lowell
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over Her Dead BodyRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beverly Hills ChihuahuaSix 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
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Tessa the Agency Receptionist
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Angela
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Regular Show: The Movie
as Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Marleah
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Regular Show: The Movie
as Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (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. Ali Hillis 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
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
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Marleah
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Marleah
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Angela
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Marleah
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Regular Show: The Movie
as Ship Computer / Rigby's Mom (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
as Meg Griffin (singing voice) / Various Characters (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Tessa the Agency Receptionist
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Heartbreak Kid
as Jodi the Bride
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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