Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#661
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Amy Sedaris represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Amy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Amy Sedaris appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amy. The Clerks 3 Documentary is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bradley Cooper, Chris Miller, Kyle Marshall and others, Amy Sedaris 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.
The Clerks 3 Documentary (2022) · The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) as Tina (voice) · The School of Rock (2003) as Mrs. Haynish
Career snapshot
Ranked #661 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Most frequent director
Chris Miller
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Chris Miller
Most common genre
Comedy
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.6
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Lion King, Chef, Super Buddies — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Six Days Seven Nights.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.43 films | 7.11 film | 6.13 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | — | 6.61 film | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.19 films | 6.63 films | 6.310 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 5.94 films | — | 6.43 films |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Robin's Secretary.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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 The Pink Dolphins – Brigitta, Greta and Karina (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.
29 of 29 films
as Tina (voice)
Directed by Tom McGrath
as Fifi (voice)
Directed by Kyle Marshall
as Mom
Directed by Dexter Fletcher
as Mrs. Haynish
Directed by Richard Linklater
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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The Clerks 3 Documentary (2022)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Amy Sedaris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tina (voice)
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Performance score7.6
The Boss Baby: Family Business asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tina (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fifi (voice)
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie (2024)
Performance score7.2
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fifi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mom
Ghosted (2023)
Performance score7.1
Ghosted asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mom 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
Start here. The Clerks 3 Documentary is the clearest statement of what Amy Sedaris does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Amy 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.
The School of Rock (2003)
A deliberate change of key after The Clerks 3 Documentary — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The School of Rock but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ghosted (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Boss Baby: Family Business but asks for a colder reading of it.
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie (2024)
Keeps the action register of Ghosted but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Favreau
Director
3 films together
Notably The Lion King
Chris Miller
Director
3 films together
Notably Puss in Boots
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Six Days Seven Nights
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably The School of Rock
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably Chicken Little
John Turturro
Director
1 film together
Notably Romance & Cigarettes
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Stay
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Bewitched
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow Angels
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
Robert Vince
Director
1 film together
Notably Super Buddies
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Tom McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boss Baby: Family Business
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Clerks III
Molly Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Theater Camp
Dave Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably Somebody I Used to Know
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosted
Kyle Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Is This Thing On?
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Favreau
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Lion KingChris Miller
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Puss in BootsTom McGrath
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Boss Baby: Family BusinessRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The School of RockKyle Marshall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to Spy: A Loud House MovieDexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostedBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is This Thing On?Marc Forster
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StayMolly Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Theater CampDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow AngelsClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the ReverendIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Six Days Seven NightsKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clerks IIIRobert Vince
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Super BuddiesKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodyJohn Turturro
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romance & CigarettesMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chicken LittleDave Franco
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Somebody I Used to KnowNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BewitchedSix 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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Lion King
as Guinea Fowl (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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The School of Rock
as Mrs. Haynish
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Clerks 3 Documentary
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. Amy Sedaris 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
23 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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Clerks 3 Documentary
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Smurfs
as Jaunty (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stay
as Toni
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
as Fifi (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
as Fifi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Shrek the Third
as Cinderella (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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