Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6589
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
April Stewart 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.
April Stewart appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without April. South Park (Not Suitable for Children) is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, tv movie, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Trey Parker, Chris Palmer, Mike Mitchell and others, April Stewart 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.
South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023) as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice) · South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023) as Sharon Marsh / Shelly Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alien Liane Cartman (voice) · South Park: The End of Obesity (2024) as Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alexis Testaburger (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6589 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2011–2024
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
Most frequent director
Trey Parker
7 films together
Longest collaboration
7×
With Trey Parker
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 11m
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
2020s
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. South Park: The End of Obesity, South Park (Not Suitable for Children), South Park: Joining the Panderverse — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 7.12 films | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 7.37 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
7.5 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
2024South Park: The End of Obesity
The current state of the argument, as Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alexis Testaburger (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.
12 of 12 films
as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Sharon Marsh / Shelly Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alien Liane Cartman (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alexis Testaburger (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Liane Cartman / Sharon Marsh / Shelly Marsh / Bus Driver (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
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
Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice)
South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice) gives April Stewart a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sharon Marsh / Shelly Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alien Liane Cartman (voice)
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Performance score7.8
South Park: Joining the Panderverse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sharon Marsh / Shelly Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alien Liane Cartman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alexis Testaburger (voice)
South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Performance score7.7
South Park: The End of Obesity asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh / Liane Cartman / Alexis Testaburger (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh (voice)
South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID (2021)
Performance score7.7
South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wendy Testaburger / Sharon Marsh / Shelley Marsh (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice)
Start here. South Park (Not Suitable for Children) is the clearest statement of what April Stewart does — accessible, 47 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet April 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.
South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID (2021)
Same director as South Park (Not Suitable for Children), different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
South Park the Streaming Wars (2022)
Same director as South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Same director as South Park the Streaming Wars, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Same director as South Park: Joining the Panderverse, 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.
Trey Parker
Director
7 films together
Notably South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Trey Parker
Director
7 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 7 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Man of TomorrowDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd DimensionBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Ghost ProtocolMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of WaterSix 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
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Swedish Translator (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
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
as Seagull (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
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Swedish Translator (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (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. April Stewart 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in animation, 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
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
as Sharon Marsh / Liane Cartman (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Swedish Translator (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
as Seagull (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
as Seagull (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
as Seagull (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2
as Various Characters (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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