Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#814
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Flula Borg 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.
Flula Borg appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Flula. Luck is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 Mark Steven Johnson, Peter Segal, Todd Komarnicki and others, Flula Borg 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.
Luck (2022) as Jeff the Unicorn (voice) · Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Suicide Squad (2021) as Javelin
Career snapshot
Ranked #814 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Luck
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Ron's Gone Wrong
Most frequent director
James Gunn
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Comedy
17 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
6.8
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Lucky, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ferdinand — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Lucky, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ferdinand.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.53 films |
| Action | 7.21 film | 7.02 films |
| Comedy | 6.85 films | 6.612 films |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Man Behind Mask.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Luck
7.8 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 Otto Moller.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Jean-Philippe Vine
as Javelin
Directed by James Gunn
as DJ Herzogenaurach (voice)
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
as Dickory (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
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
Jeff the Unicorn (voice)
Luck (2022)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jeff the Unicorn (voice) gives Flula Borg a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
Performance score7.5
Ron's Gone Wrong asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Javelin
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Performance score7.3
The Suicide Squad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javelin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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DJ Herzogenaurach (voice)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Performance score7.1
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. DJ Herzogenaurach (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 Jeff the Unicorn (voice)
Start here. Luck is the clearest statement of what Flula Borg does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Flula 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.
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Luck but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls World Tour but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Ron's Gone Wrong but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The Suicide Squad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Gunn
Director
2 films together
Notably The Suicide Squad
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Pitch Perfect 2
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferdinand
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
William Teitler
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Therapy
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Jean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together
Notably Ron's Gone Wrong
Careen Ingle
Director
1 film together
Notably King Tweety
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Burger 2
Todd Komarnicki
Director
1 film together
Notably Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably My Spy The Eternal City
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Champagne Problems
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Gunn
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Suicide SquadJean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ron's Gone WrongWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerdinandAkiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue RangersTodd Komarnicki
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. AssassinElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pitch Perfect 2Careen Ingle
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King TweetyPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Spy The Eternal CityPhil 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 2Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Champagne ProblemsWilliam Teitler
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TherapySix 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 Suicide Squad
as Javelin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trolls World Tour
as Dickory (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
Luck
as Jeff the Unicorn (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
as Man Behind Mask
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Luck
as Jeff the Unicorn (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. Flula Borg 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
17 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
Luck
as Jeff the Unicorn (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Suicide Squad
as Javelin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trolls World Tour
as Dickory (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
King Tweety
as Harold / Thaddeus Fishley, Esq. / Enthusiastic Guy in the Crowd (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Suicide Squad
as Javelin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Suicide Squad
as Javelin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Dickory (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Champagne Problems
as Otto Moller
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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