Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8069
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ego Nwodim 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.
Ego Nwodim appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ego. Hoppers is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for family, animation, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Daniel Chong, Mike Roberts, Matt Spicer and others, Ego Nwodim 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.
Hoppers (2026) as Fish Queen (voice) · The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020) as Harvard · Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) as Carol
Career snapshot
Ranked #8069 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2020–2027
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Hoppers
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Hoppers
Most frequent director
Daniel Chong
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Daniel Chong
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.1
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
5.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. CoComelon: The Movie, Hoppers, Backyard Sports: The Animated Special — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.7
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.7
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. CoComelon: The Movie, Hoppers, Backyard Sports: The Animated Special.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 |
|---|---|
| Comedy | 6.114 films |
| Romance | 6.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2020Magic Camp
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Volunteer (at Andy's Show).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Hoppers
8.1 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
The current state of the argument, as (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.
15 of 15 films
as Fish Queen (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Twiggy (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Fish Queen (voice)
Hoppers (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fish Queen (voice) gives Ego Nwodim a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Harvard
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Performance score7.0
The Broken Hearts Gallery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carol
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
Performance score6.9
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carol is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lenore
Little Brother (2026)
Performance score6.7
Little Brother asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lenore 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 Fish Queen (voice)
Start here. Hoppers is the clearest statement of what Ego Nwodim does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ego 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 Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Hoppers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The Broken Hearts Gallery but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile but asks for a colder reading of it.
Little Brother (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Natalie Krinsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Broken Hearts Gallery
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Magic Camp
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Burger 2
Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever
Leah McKendrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrambled
Matt Spicer
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Brother
Mike Roberts
Director
1 film together
Notably Backyard Sports: The Animated Special
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably Hoppers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoppersNatalie Krinsky
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Broken Hearts GalleryJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lyle, Lyle, CrocodileMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Magic CampLuke Cormican
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin FeverMatt Spicer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little BrotherPhil Traill
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Burger 2Leah McKendrick
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScrambledMike Roberts
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Backyard Sports: The Animated SpecialSix 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
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (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
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Leah (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
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Magic Camp
as Volunteer (at Andy's Show)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (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. Ego Nwodim 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
14 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
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Leah (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Magic Camp
as Volunteer (at Andy's Show)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hoppers
as Fish Queen (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Leah (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Little Brother
as Lenore
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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