Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3224
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gregg Berger represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Gregg is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gregg Berger appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gregg. Inside Out is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 comedy, animation, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Genndy Tartakovsky, Robert Rodriguez, Kyle Balda and others, Gregg Berger 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.
Inside Out (2015) as Additional Voices (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012) as Hank Prince / Zorak (voice) · Alita: Battle Angel (2019) as Deckman
Career snapshot
Ranked #3224 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1986–2025
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Inside Out
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Inside Out
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Animation
8 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
6.8
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Alita: Battle Angel, Despicable Me 3, Inside Out — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. The Transformers: The Movie.
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.71 film | 8.11 film | — |
| Action | 7.01 film | — | — | 6.92 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 4.61 film | 6.61 film | 7.34 films | 6.21 film |
| Crime | — | 4.61 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986The Transformers: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Grimlock (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015Inside Out
8.1 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
2025Fixed
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.
11 of 11 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Hank Prince / Zorak (voice)
Directed by Michael Goguen
as Deckman
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Grimlock (voice)
Directed by Nelson Shin
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)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Gregg Berger a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hank Prince / Zorak (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012)
Performance score7.5
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hank Prince / Zorak (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Deckman
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Performance score7.2
Alita: Battle Angel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Deckman 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)
Monsters University (2013)
Performance score7.0
Monsters University 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. Inside Out is the clearest statement of what Gregg Berger does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gregg 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 Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Keeps the adventure register of Inside Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012)
Keeps the adventure register of The Transformers: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Monsters University (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Monsters University — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nelson Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Transformers: The Movie
Alan Metter
Director
1 film together
Notably Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Chuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together
Notably Recess: School's Out
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Dreamgirls
Michael Goguen
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Inside Out
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me 3
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Alita: Battle Angel
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Fixed
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inside OutMichael Goguen
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue FalconRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alita: Battle AngelNelson Shin
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Transformers: The MovieBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DreamgirlsChuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Recess: School's OutKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable Me 3Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FixedAlan Metter
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Police Academy: Mission to MoscowSix 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
Inside Out
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
Inside Out
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
Inside Out
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
Dreamgirls
as Chicago Deejay
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inside Out
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. Gregg Berger 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
39 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
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Hank Prince / Zorak (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Hank Prince / Zorak (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dreamgirls
as Chicago Deejay
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
as Hank Prince / Zorak (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Alita: Battle Angel
as Deckman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alita: Battle Angel
as Deckman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inside Out
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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