Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12658
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Erica Luttrell 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.
Erica Luttrell appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Erica. Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, adventure, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Liu, Todd Grimes, Erik Kling and others, Erica Luttrell 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.
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020) as Erica (voice) · Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) as Sapphire (voice) · The Death of Superman (2019) as Mercy Graves (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12658 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1997–2021
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Steven Universe: The Movie
Most frequent director
Jake Castorena
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Castorena
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.7
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Steven Universe: The Movie, Reign of the Supermen, The Death of Superman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
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. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Action | — | 7.13 films | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 6.61 film | 7.22 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jody.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
8.0 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
2021Batman: Soul of the Dragon
The current state of the argument, as Silver St. Cloud (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.
9 of 9 films
as Erica (voice)
Directed by Todd Grimes
as Sapphire (voice)
Directed by Rebecca Sugar
as Mercy Graves (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Mercy Graves (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Silver St. Cloud (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
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
Erica (voice)
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Erica (voice) gives Erica Luttrell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sapphire (voice)
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.5
Steven Universe: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sapphire (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mercy Graves (voice)
The Death of Superman (2019)
Performance score7.3
The Death of Superman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mercy Graves (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mercy Graves (voice)
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Performance score6.9
Reign of the Supermen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mercy Graves (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 Erica (voice)
Start here. Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama is the clearest statement of what Erica Luttrell does — accessible, 37 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Erica 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.
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Death of Superman (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Steven Universe: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Same director as The Death of Superman, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021)
Keeps the action register of Reign of the Supermen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together
Notably The Death of Superman
Dean Cundey
Director
1 film together
Notably Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
Kevin Peaty
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together
Notably Steven Universe: The Movie
Erik Kling
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
Todd Grimes
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Soul of the Dragon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Death of SupermanTodd Grimes
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-RamaRebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steven Universe: The MovieSam Liu
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: Soul of the DragonKevin Peaty
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-weenErik Kling
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Mega BlissmasDean Cundey
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Honey, We Shrunk OurselvesSix 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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Sapphire (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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Sapphire (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
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Erica (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Death of Superman
as Mercy Graves (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Erica (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. Erica Luttrell 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
24 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
8 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
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Erica (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Death of Superman
as Mercy Graves (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Sapphire (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Erica (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Death of Superman
as Mercy Graves (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman: Soul of the Dragon
as Silver St. Cloud (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Batman: Soul of the Dragon
as Silver St. Cloud (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Death of Superman
as Mercy Graves (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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