Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8973
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Darin De Paul 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.
Darin De Paul appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Darin. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 action, fantasy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kang Hei Chul, Jeff Wamester, Christopher Berkeley and others, Darin De Paul 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.
DC Showcase: Death (2019) as Professor (voice) · Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) as Quan Chi (voice) · Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) as Narrator (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8973 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 20m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.8
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. DC Showcase: Death, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Julie & Julia, Robots.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 8.51 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 7.07 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.11 film | 7.71 film |
| Romance | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Robots
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2025The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
The current state of the argument, as Captain (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.
13 of 13 films
as Professor (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Lex Luthor / Starro (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Quan Chi (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Brainiac (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
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
Professor (voice)
DC Showcase: Death (2019)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Professor (voice) gives Darin De Paul a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lex Luthor / Starro (voice)
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
Performance score7.7
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lex Luthor / Starro (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Quan Chi (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)
Performance score7.6
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Quan Chi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Narrator (voice)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Performance score7.5
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Narrator (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 Professor (voice)
Start here. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest statement of what Darin De Paul does — accessible, 19 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Darin 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.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of DC Showcase: Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
Keeps the animation register of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of Justice Society: World War II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Keeps the science fiction register of Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together
Notably Justice Society: World War II
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Robots
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Julie & Julia
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Death
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
Christopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Kang Hei Chul
Director
1 film together
Notably The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice Society: World War IISam Liu
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: DeathEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's RevengeMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super SonsBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyKang Hei Chul
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 Witcher: Sirens of the DeepChristopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: The Doom That Came to GothamNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Julie & JuliaChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RobotsSix 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
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Quan Chi (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
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (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
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Julie & Julia
as GI
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (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. Darin De Paul 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.
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
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Quan Chi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Thomas Wayne (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
as Quan Chi (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Thomas Wayne (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
DC Showcase: Death
as Professor (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Robots
as Additional Voices
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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