Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#308
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andy Richter represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Andy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andy Richter appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andy. Obsession is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 horror, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Curry Barker, Kyle Marvin, Chelsea Peretti and others, Andy Richter 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.
Obsession (2026) as Carter · Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013) as Frank (voice, uncredited) · Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) as Mario (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #308 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Obsession
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Obsession
Most frequent director
Eric Darnell
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Eric Darnell
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fyre, Penguins of Madagascar, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Merry Madagascar, Aliens in the Attic, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Most productive era
2000s
12 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 | 4.91 film | 7.21 film | 6.92 films |
| Action | 5.11 film | 7.73 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 8.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.011 films | 7.04 films | 5.93 films |
| Romance | 5.12 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 8.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Eli.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Obsession
8.4 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. The current state of the argument, as Carter.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Carter
Directed by Curry Barker
as Frank (voice, uncredited)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Mario (voice)
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp
as Frank (voice, uncredited)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as 4-LOM (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Carter
Obsession (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Carter gives Andy Richter a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Frank (voice, uncredited)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
Performance score7.8
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frank (voice, uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mario (voice)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
Performance score7.4
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mario (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frank (voice, uncredited)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Performance score7.4
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frank (voice, uncredited) 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 Carter
Start here. Obsession is the clearest statement of what Andy Richter does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andy 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 Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Obsession — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Same director as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eric Darnell
Director
4 films together
Notably Madagascar
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. T & the Women
Louis C.K.
Director
1 film together
Notably Pootie Tang
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Director
1 film together
Notably Scary Movie 2
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Elf
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blades of Glory
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Chris Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Fyre
Dean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together
Notably Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Chelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together
Notably First Time Female Director
Kyle Marvin
Director
1 film together
Notably 80 for Brady
Curry Barker
Director
1 film together
Notably Obsession
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eric Darnell
Director
4 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MadagascarJay Oliva
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman: The Dark Knight ReturnsCurry Barker
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ObsessionDean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marcel the Shell with Shoes OnBen Stiller
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 Secret Life of Walter MittyChris Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FyreJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElfAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky BobbyKyle 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 BradyJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blades of GloryKeenen Ivory Wayans
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scary Movie 2Louis C.K.
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pootie TangRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. T & the WomenChelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together · 3.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First Time Female DirectorSix 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
Obsession
as Carter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dr. Dolittle 2
as Eugene Wilson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Obsession
as Carter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fyre
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Obsession
as Carter
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. Andy Richter 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
26 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
18 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
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as Frank (voice, uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Obsession
as Carter
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dr. Dolittle 2
as Eugene Wilson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as Frank (voice, uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as Frank (voice, uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as 4-LOM (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Andy Richter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
as Mort (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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