Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17184
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Grant George 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.
Grant George appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Grant. Flamin' Hot is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 drama, history, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eva Longoria, Brian Goodman, Jørgen Klubien and others, Grant George 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.
Flamin' Hot (2023) as Additional Voices (voice) · Bigfoot Family (2020) as Connor Mandrake (voice) · The Academy of Magic (2020) as Miller (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #17184 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2006–2023
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Flamin' Hot
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Flamin' Hot
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Family
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
6.4
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Flamin' Hot, After Ever Happy, Last Seen Alive — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. Fly Me to the Moon, Pulse.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 5.11 film | 6.61 film | 7.13 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.74 films | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.92 films |
| Horror | 5.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Pulse
Where our catalogue meets this career, as U.S. Army Emergency Broadcaster.
Career peak
2020Bigfoot Family
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2023Flamin' Hot
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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.
14 of 14 films
as Connor Mandrake (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Eva Longoria
as Miller (voice)
Directed by Jørgen Klubien
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
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
Connor Mandrake (voice)
Bigfoot Family (2020)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Connor Mandrake (voice) gives Grant George a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Flamin' Hot (2023)
Performance score7.4
Flamin' Hot 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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Miller (voice)
The Academy of Magic (2020)
Performance score7.2
The Academy of Magic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miller (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
After We Fell (2021)
Performance score6.9
After We Fell 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Connor Mandrake (voice)
Start here. Bigfoot Family is the clearest statement of what Grant George does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Grant 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.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Keeps the family register of Bigfoot Family but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Academy of Magic (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation but asks for a colder reading of it.
After We Fell (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Academy of Magic — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
Keeps the drama register of After We Fell but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Lights
Maya Forbes
Director
1 film together
Notably Infinitely Polar Bear
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Crackers
Jørgen Klubien
Director
1 film together
Notably The Academy of Magic
Brian Goodman
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Seen Alive
Eva Longoria
Director
1 film together
Notably Flamin' Hot
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationEva Longoria
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flamin' HotJørgen Klubien
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 Academy of MagicMaya Forbes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Infinitely Polar BearBrian Goodman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Seen AliveTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal CrackersRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red LightsSix 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
Flamin' Hot
as Additional Voices (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
Flamin' Hot
as Additional Voices (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
Flamin' Hot
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Red Lights
as Presenter #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bigfoot Family
as Connor Mandrake (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. Grant George 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in family, 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
The Academy of Magic
as Miller (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Last Seen Alive
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Flamin' Hot
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pulse
as U.S. Army Emergency Broadcaster
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bigfoot Family
as Connor Mandrake (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Last Seen Alive
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Animal Crackers
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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