Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3124
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Breckin Meyer represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Breckin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Breckin Meyer appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Breckin. The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III 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, romance, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Seth Barrish, BenDavid Grabinski, Rachel Lee Goldenberg and others, Breckin Meyer 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.
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (2010) as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice) · The Insider (1999) as Sharon's Son · Clueless (1995) as Travis
Career snapshot
Ranked #3124 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
Most frequent director
Seth Barrish
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Seth Barrish
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Insider, Go, 54 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Insider, Go, 54.
Most productive era
1990s
7 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.83 films | — | 5.61 film | 6.91 film |
| Action | 5.91 film | — | 7.51 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.44 films | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 6.04 films | 6.52 films | 5.84 films |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 5.71 film | — | — |
| Romance | 7.31 film | 6.13 films | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 6.02 films | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Spencer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999The Insider
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
2026Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
The current state of the argument, as Self - Audience Member.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sharon's Son
Directed by Michael Mann
as Travis
Directed by Amy Heckerling
as Mark
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
as Tiny
Directed by Doug Liman
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
Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (2010)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice) gives Breckin Meyer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sharon's Son
The Insider (1999)
Performance score7.3
The Insider asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sharon's Son is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Travis
Clueless (1995)
Performance score7.2
Clueless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Travis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mark
Unpregnant (2020)
Performance score7.1
Unpregnant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mark 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 Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
Start here. The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III is the clearest statement of what Breckin Meyer does — accessible, 45 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Breckin 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.
Clueless (1995)
Keeps the comedy register of The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Insider (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Clueless — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Go (1999)
Keeps the thriller register of The Insider but asks for a colder reading of it.
Unpregnant (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Go but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rachel Talalay
Director
1 film together
Notably Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Amy Heckerling
Director
1 film together
Notably Clueless
John Carpenter
Director
1 film together
Notably Escape from L.A.
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably The Craft
Mark Christopher
Director
1 film together
Notably 54
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Go
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Insider
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Kate & Leopold
Angela Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Herbie Fully Loaded
Peter Hewitt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Maiden Heist
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Simon Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Mars Needs Moms
Seth Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Changeland
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Unpregnant
BenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Happily
Seth Barrish
Director
1 film together
Notably Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InsiderAmy Heckerling
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CluelessDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnpregnantAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CraftJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kate & LeopoldMark Christopher
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
54Simon Wells
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mars Needs MomsMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghosts of Girlfriends PastSeth Barrish
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the RideJohn Carpenter
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Escape from L.A.BenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HappilyAngela Robinson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Herbie Fully LoadedPeter Hewitt
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Maiden HeistSeth Green
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChangelandRachel Talalay
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freddy's Dead: The Final NightmareSix 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 Insider
as Sharon's Son
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
54
as Greg Randazzo
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 Insider
as Sharon's Son
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Insider
as Sharon's Son
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (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. Breckin Meyer 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
35 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
13 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
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Ray Peyton Jr.
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Go
as Tiny
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Boba Fett / Admiral Ackbar / Rebel (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Ray Peyton Jr.
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
54
as Greg Randazzo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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