Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1647
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jack McBrayer 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.
Jack McBrayer appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jack. Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicholas Stoller, Jerry Seinfeld, Oz Rodríguez and others, Jack McBrayer 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.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) as Farmbot (voice) · Despicable Me (2010) as Carnival Barker / Tourist Dad (voice) · Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) as Felix (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1647 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Most frequent director
Nicholas Stoller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Nicholas Stoller
Most common genre
Comedy
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.51 film | 6.11 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.44 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 6.314 films | 6.46 films |
| Crime | — | 7.51 film | 6.51 film |
| Romance | 6.51 film | 5.81 film | 5.91 film |
| Horror | — | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Glenn.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
7.7 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 Leslie.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Farmbot (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Felix (voice)
Directed by Phil Johnston
as Carnival Barker / Tourist Dad (voice)
Directed by Chris Renaud
as Police Officer (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Irving (voice)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
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
Farmbot (voice)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Farmbot (voice) gives Jack McBrayer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Felix (voice)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Performance score7.3
Ralph Breaks the Internet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Felix (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carnival Barker / Tourist Dad (voice)
Despicable Me (2010)
Performance score7.3
Despicable Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carnival Barker / Tourist Dad (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Police Officer (voice)
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (2017)
Performance score7.1
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Police Officer (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 Farmbot (voice)
Start here. Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation is the clearest statement of what Jack McBrayer does — accessible, 82 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jack 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.
Despicable Me (2010)
Keeps the science fiction register of Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
Keeps the science fiction register of Despicable Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together
Notably Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Tim Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Ramaa Mosley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brass Teapot
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Campaign
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably A Thousand Words
Maggie Carey
Director
1 film together
Notably The To Do List
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably They Came Together
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs: The Lost Village
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Oz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Forgetting Sarah MarshallChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable MePhil 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 InternetEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach BashDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd DimensionTim Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda HolidayJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the ReverendKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smurfs: The Lost VillageAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky BobbyOz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Rock: A One-Time SpecialBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Thousand WordsRamaa Mosley
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Brass TeapotMaggie Carey
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The To Do ListJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CampaignDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
They Came TogetherJerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnfrostedBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty GaloreBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Six 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
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Farmbot (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
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Darald
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Farmbot (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Movie 43
as Brian (segment "iBabe")
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Farmbot (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. Jack McBrayer 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
23 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
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
as Police Officer (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
as Police Officer (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Darald
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
as Police Officer (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Felix (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Irving (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Irving (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Despicable Me
as Carnival Barker / Tourist Dad (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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