Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#36241
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Colin Foo 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.
Colin Foo appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Colin. Another Cinderella Story is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 romance, comedy, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Fimognari, Mark Steven Johnson, Evan Goldberg and others, Colin Foo 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.
Another Cinderella Story (2008) as Lee-Ha · To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) as Morty · Love, Guaranteed (2020) as Mr. Yang
Career snapshot
Ranked #36241 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2000–2020
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Another Cinderella Story
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Another Cinderella Story
Most frequent director
Michael Fimognari
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Fimognari
Most common genre
Comedy
7 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
6.8
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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Love, Guaranteed — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
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. Another Cinderella Story, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Saving Silverman.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.01 film | — | — |
| Action | 6.22 films | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.43 films | 6.02 films | 6.62 films |
| Crime | 6.03 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.52 films | — | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Romeo Must Die
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Overlord.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2020Love, Guaranteed
The current state of the argument, as Mr. Yang.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Lee-Ha
Directed by Unknown
as Mr. Yang
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
as Train Passenger
Directed by Evan Goldberg
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
Lee-Ha
Another Cinderella Story (2008)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lee-Ha gives Colin Foo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Morty
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Performance score6.7
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Morty is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Yang
Love, Guaranteed (2020)
Performance score6.5
Love, Guaranteed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Yang is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Payne
37 Teen (2019)
Performance score6.5
37 Teen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Payne 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 Lee-Ha
Start here. Another Cinderella Story is the clearest statement of what Colin Foo does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Colin 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 Interview (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Another Cinderella Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
37 Teen (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Interview but asks for a colder reading of it.
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of 37 Teen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love, Guaranteed (2020)
Keeps the romance register of To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Romeo Must Die
Peter Howitt
Director
1 film together
Notably Antitrust
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Saving Silverman
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Evan Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Interview
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Guaranteed
Michael Fimognari
Director
1 film together
Notably To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Fimognari
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love YouMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, GuaranteedAndrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romeo Must DieEvan Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InterviewRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters UnleashedPeter Howitt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AntitrustDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saving SilvermanSix 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
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
as Morty
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
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. Colin Foo 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
20 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
7 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
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Romeo Must Die
as Overlord
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Investor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Antitrust
as Grocer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Another Cinderella Story
as Lee-Ha
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Love, Guaranteed
as Mr. Yang
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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