Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16155
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Greg Finley 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 Finley appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Greg. Lilo & Stitch 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Renny Harlin, Joel Schumacher, Dean DeBlois and others, Greg Finley 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.
Lilo & Stitch (2002) as Additional Voices (voice) · Phone Booth (2003) as (voice) · Defending Your Life (1991) as Used Car Salesman
Career snapshot
Ranked #16155 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1988–2009
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Lilo & Stitch
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Lilo & Stitch
Most frequent director
Renny Harlin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Renny Harlin
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Defending Your Life — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Oliver & Company.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.91 film | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.12 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | 6.82 films | 7.61 film |
| Crime | — | 6.71 film | 6.42 films |
| Romance | — | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1988Oliver & Company
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voice (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2002Lilo & Stitch
7.6 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
200912 Rounds
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.
8 of 8 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Dean DeBlois
as (voice)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
as Used Car Salesman
Directed by Albert Brooks
as Mascot (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by Tom Shadyac
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Greg Finley a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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(voice)
Phone Booth (2003)
Performance score6.8
Phone Booth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Used Car Salesman
Defending Your Life (1991)
Performance score6.8
Defending Your Life asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Used Car Salesman 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)
Dinosaur (2000)
Performance score6.6
Dinosaur 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Lilo & Stitch is the clearest statement of what Greg Finley does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.6 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.
Defending Your Life (1991)
Keeps the comedy register of Lilo & Stitch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Keeps the comedy register of Defending Your Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dinosaur (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Ace Ventura: Pet Detective — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Phone Booth (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Dinosaur — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Scribner
Director
1 film together
Notably Oliver & Company
Albert Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Defending Your Life
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Dean DeBlois
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Phone Booth
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dean DeBlois
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phone BoothAlbert Brooks
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Defending Your LifeTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ace Ventura: Pet DetectiveGeorge Scribner
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oliver & CompanyRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsSix 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
Lilo & Stitch
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
Defending Your Life
as Used Car Salesman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Lilo & Stitch
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
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Mascot (voice) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Lilo & Stitch
as Additional Voices (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 Finley 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
21 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 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
Lilo & Stitch
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Phone Booth
as (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dinosaur
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Mascot (voice) (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Lilo & Stitch
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Defending Your Life
as Used Car Salesman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
as Mascot (voice) (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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