Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17305
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jonathan Kite 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.
Jonathan Kite appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonathan. Meeting Your Maker is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rob Edwards, Jeff Wadlow, Teppo Airaksinen and others, Jonathan Kite 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.
Meeting Your Maker (2026) as Otis / Voice of Otis · Smallfoot (2018) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) as Mr. Skinner
Career snapshot
Ranked #17305 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Meeting Your Maker
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Meeting Your Maker
Most frequent director
Rob Edwards
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rob Edwards
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.2
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Smallfoot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Smallfoot.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 2.12 films |
| Action | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 5.25 films |
| Horror | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Smallfoot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Otis / Voice of Otis.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick
as Whiz / Lucas (voice)
Directed by Rob Edwards
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
Otis / Voice of Otis
Meeting Your Maker (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Otis / Voice of Otis gives Jonathan Kite a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Smallfoot (2018)
Performance score6.7
Smallfoot 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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Whiz / Lucas (voice)
Sneaks (2025)
Performance score6.5
Sneaks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Whiz / Lucas (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Angus
James the Second (2025)
Performance score6.5
James the Second asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angus 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 Otis / Voice of Otis
Start here. Meeting Your Maker is the clearest statement of what Jonathan Kite does — accessible, 18 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jonathan 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.
Smallfoot (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Meeting Your Maker — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Smallfoot but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sneaks (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of The Curse of Bridge Hollow but asks for a colder reading of it.
James the Second (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Sneaks — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Smallfoot
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably Deported
Teppo Airaksinen
Director
1 film together
Notably Supercool
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Rob Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Sneaks
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SmallfootJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Curse of Bridge HollowRob Edwards
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SneaksTeppo Airaksinen
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SupercoolTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 3.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeportedSix 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
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Smallfoot
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
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deported
as Photographer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
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. Jonathan Kite 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
6 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
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Smallfoot
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Smallfoot
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Meeting Your Maker
as Otis / Voice of Otis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supercool
as Uber Driver
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Smallfoot
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supercool
as Uber Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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