Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3597
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ava Acres 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.
Ava Acres appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ava. Frozen 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Wachtenheim, Luke Cormican, Peter Billingsley and others, Ava Acres 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.
Frozen (2013) as Additional Voices (voice) · Leo (2023) as Additional Voices (voice) · Monsters University (2013) as Additional Children's Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3597 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2011–2023
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Frozen
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Leo
Most frequent director
David Wachtenheim
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With David Wachtenheim
Most common genre
Comedy
11 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
6.9
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Wyrm, Term Life, The Angry Birds Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Wyrm, Term Life, The Angry Birds Movie.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.84 films | — |
| Action | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.73 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.69 films | 7.12 films |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Happy Feet Two
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Erik (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Frozen
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
2023Leo
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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.
17 of 17 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
as Additional Children's Voices (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Renaud
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Luke Cormican
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Frozen (2013)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Ava Acres a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.2
Leo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Children's Voices (voice)
Monsters University (2013)
Performance score7.0
Monsters University asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Children's Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Performance score6.9
Despicable Me 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Frozen is the clearest statement of what Ava Acres does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ava 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.
Monsters University (2013)
Keeps the fantasy register of Frozen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of Monsters University but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Despicable Me 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Leo (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Feet Two
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me 2
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably White Bird in a Blizzard
Eric Darnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Penguins of Madagascar
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 2
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions
Peter Billingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Term Life
Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrozenDavid Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable Me 2Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick RulesGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 2Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Peabody & ShermanEric Darnell
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Penguins of MadagascarKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MinionsGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Bird in a BlizzardGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Feet TwoPeter Billingsley
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Term LifeSix 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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Monsters University
as Additional Children's Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Frozen
as Additional Voices (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. Ava Acres 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
11 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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Term Life
as Cate (age 12)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Term Life
as Cate (age 12)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Term Life
as Cate (age 12)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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