Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2057
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Greg Cipes 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.
Greg Cipes appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Greg. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 horror, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katie Rice, Henrique Jardim, Peter Rida Michail and others, Greg Cipes 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.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) as Time Life Employee (uncredited) · Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) as Beast Boy (voice) · Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019) as Beast Boy (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2057 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Most frequent director
Henrique Jardim
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Henrique Jardim
Most common genre
Action
7 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
6.4
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
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Fast & Furious, The Onion Movie, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | — | 7.41 film | 6.02 films |
| Action | 7.02 films | 7.22 films | 6.53 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 5.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 7.23 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2006Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Beast Boy (voice). Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2013The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025Spirit Springs
The current state of the argument, as Ryan.
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 Beast Boy (voice)
Directed by Heather A. Maxwell
as Beast Boy (voice)
Directed by Jeff Mednikow
as Beast Boy (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
Directed by Ben Stiller
as Beast Boy (voice)
Directed by Peter Rida Michail
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
Beast Boy (voice)
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Beast Boy (voice) gives Greg Cipes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Beast Boy (voice)
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Performance score7.8
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beast Boy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beast Boy (voice)
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Performance score7.7
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beast Boy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Time Life Employee (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Time Life Employee (uncredited) 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 Beast Boy (voice)
Start here. Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo is the clearest statement of what Greg Cipes does — accessible, 75 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Greg 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Keeps the action register of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021)
Keeps the science fiction register of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Henrique Jardim
Director
2 films together
Notably Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
Heather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious
Taylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Vile
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Jeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Peter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Henrique Jardim
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The MovieBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Walter MittyHeather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans: Trouble in TokyoJeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen TitansAaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! To the MoviesJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & FuriousPeter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! See Space JamKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseTaylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VileSix 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
as Beast Boy (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. Greg Cipes 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast & Furious
as Dwight
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
as Beast Boy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
as Kevin Levin / Quad Smack / Bashmouth / Crystalfist / Rush / Hot Shot / Dark Matter / Bootleg (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Time Life Employee (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
I'm Charlie Walker
as Zephyr
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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