Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3668
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Karin Konoval 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.
Karin Konoval appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Karin. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 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 science fiction, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Alex Zamm, Matt Reeves and others, Karin Konoval 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.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as Maurice / Court Clerk · Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) as Maurice · War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) as Maurice
Career snapshot
Ranked #3668 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Most frequent director
Matt Reeves
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Matt Reeves
Most common genre
Science Fiction
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.5
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. War for the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. 2012, In the Land of Women, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 5.91 film | 7.33 films | 5.71 film |
| Action | 6.11 film | 7.32 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 6.31 film | 6.81 film |
| Romance | 5.91 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Aggie Wilkins.
Highest rated performance
2011Rise of the Planet of the Apes
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2017War for the Planet of the Apes
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 Claire's Mom.
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 Maurice
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Maurice
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Maurice / Court Clerk
Directed by Rupert Wyatt
as Ingrid Ravensworth
Directed by Alex Zamm
as Claire's Mom
Directed by Andrew Stanton
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
Maurice
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maurice gives Karin Konoval a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maurice
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Performance score7.2
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maurice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maurice / Court Clerk
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Performance score7.2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maurice / Court Clerk is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ingrid Ravensworth
Under Wraps (2021)
Performance score6.7
Under Wraps asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ingrid Ravensworth 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 Maurice
Start here. War for the Planet of the Apes is the clearest statement of what Karin Konoval does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Karin 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.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Keeps the science fiction register of War for the Planet of the Apes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Keeps the action register of Rise of the Planet of the Apes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Under Wraps (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
In the Blink of an Eye (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Under Wraps — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matt Reeves
Director
2 films together
Notably Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Jon Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Land of Women
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably 2012
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Alex Zamm
Director
1 film together
Notably Under Wraps
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Blink of an Eye
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Reeves
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dawn of the Planet of the ApesRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the Planet of the ApesAlex Zamm
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Under WrapsThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy KidRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
2012Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters UnleashedJon Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Land of WomenAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Blink of an EyeSix 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
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
In the Land of Women
as Dr. Ida Rosen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice / Court Clerk
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
2012
as Sally - President's Secretary
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
War for the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice
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. Karin Konoval 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
22 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice / Court Clerk
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice / Court Clerk
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
In the Land of Women
as Dr. Ida Rosen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Aggie Wilkins
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Maurice / Court Clerk
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
2012
as Sally - President's Secretary
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
In the Land of Women
as Dr. Ida Rosen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
2012
as Sally - President's Secretary
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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