Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15681
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andrew McIlroy 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.
Andrew McIlroy appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is the clearest case: a film rated 6.1 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 tv movie, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ali Liebert, Craig Shapiro, Raja Gosnell and others, Andrew McIlroy 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.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) as Investor · The 6th Day (2000) as Scott Moore · Amish Abduction (2019) as John
Career snapshot
Ranked #15681 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2000–2019
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.1
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.1
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Most frequent director
Ali Liebert
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ali Liebert
Most common genre
Comedy
3 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
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
6.2
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
2000s
5.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Saving Silverman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
5.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
5.8
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. Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Saving Silverman.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.73 films | — |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | 5.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2000The 6th Day
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Scott Moore. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2004Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
6.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2019Amish Abduction
The current state of the argument, as John.
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.
5 of 5 films
as John
Directed by Ali Liebert
as Academic #2
Directed by Craig Shapiro
as Investor
Directed by Raja Gosnell
as Waiter
Directed by Dennis Dugan
as Scott Moore
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
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
John
Amish Abduction (2019)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. John gives Andrew McIlroy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Academic #2
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Performance score6.5
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Academic #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Investor
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Performance score6.5
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Investor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Waiter
Saving Silverman (2001)
Performance score6.5
Saving Silverman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Waiter 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 John
Start here. Amish Abduction is the clearest statement of what Andrew McIlroy does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 5.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrew 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 6th Day (2000)
Keeps the thriller register of Amish Abduction but asks for a colder reading of it.
Saving Silverman (2001)
A deliberate change of key after The 6th Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Keeps the comedy register of Saving Silverman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together
Notably The 6th Day
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Saving Silverman
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Craig Shapiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
Ali Liebert
Director
1 film together
Notably Amish Abduction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters UnleashedRoger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 6th DayAli Liebert
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amish AbductionDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saving SilvermanCraig Shapiro
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the ChiefSix 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 6th Day
as Scott Moore
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Saving Silverman
as Waiter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Investor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The 6th Day
as Scott Moore
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Amish Abduction
as John
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. Andrew McIlroy 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
3 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
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Investor
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The 6th Day
as Scott Moore
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Saving Silverman
as Waiter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Investor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The 6th Day
as Scott Moore
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The 6th Day
as Scott Moore
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Saving Silverman
as Waiter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Amish Abduction
as John
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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