Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17116
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Benjamin Plessala 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.
Benjamin Plessala appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Benjamin. Turning Red is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 fantasy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sean Charmatz, André Øvredal, Domee Shi and others, Benjamin Plessala 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.
Turning Red (2022) as Additional Voices (voice) · The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) as Additional Voices (Voice) · The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) as Additional Voices (Voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #17116 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2020–2024
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Turning Red
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Most frequent director
Sean Charmatz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sean Charmatz
Most common genre
Family
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.4
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Tiger's Apprentice, Orion and the Dark, The Last Voyage of the Demeter — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Tiger's Apprentice, Orion and the Dark, The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Action | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | 7.25 films |
| Crime | 7.31 film |
| Horror | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2020The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (Voice). 7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022The Sea Beast
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 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.
11 of 11 films
as Child 1 (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Additional Voices (Voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Domee Shi
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Kyle Balda
as Additional Voices (Voice)
Directed by Tim Hill
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
Child 1 (voice)
The Sea Beast (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Child 1 (voice) gives Benjamin Plessala a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (Voice)
The Tiger's Apprentice (2024)
Performance score7.2
The Tiger's Apprentice 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 Voices (voice)
Turning Red (2022)
Performance score7.2
Turning Red 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 Voices (voice)
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Performance score7.2
Minions: The Rise of Gru 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 Child 1 (voice)
Start here. The Sea Beast is the clearest statement of what Benjamin Plessala does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Benjamin 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 SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of The Sea Beast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Turning Red (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run but asks for a colder reading of it.
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Turning Red but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Tiger's Apprentice (2024)
Keeps the family register of Minions: The Rise of Gru but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Pinocchio
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sea Beast
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions: The Rise of Gru
Domee Shi
Director
1 film together
Notably Turning Red
André Øvredal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Orion and the Dark
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Domee Shi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Turning RedTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the RunKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions: The Rise of GruChris Williams
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 Sea BeastAndré Øvredal
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Voyage of the DemeterSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Orion and the DarkRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PinocchioSix 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 Sea Beast
as Child 1 (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 Tiger's Apprentice
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
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
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
Pinocchio
as Additional Voices (Voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Sea Beast
as Child 1 (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. Benjamin Plessala 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in family, 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 Tiger's Apprentice
as Additional Voices (Voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Sea Beast
as Child 1 (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Tiger's Apprentice
as Additional Voices (Voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Tiger's Apprentice
as Additional Voices (Voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Sea Beast
as Child 1 (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sea Beast
as Child 1 (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
as Additional Voices (Voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Turning Red
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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