Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#876
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Micucci 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.
Kate Micucci appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. The Clerks 3 Documentary 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, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Hastings, Kevin Smith, Cecilia Aranovich and others, Kate Micucci 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.
The Clerks 3 Documentary (2022) · Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) as Velma Dinkley (voice) · Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019) as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #876 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
2010–2025
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Most frequent director
Kevin Smith
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kevin Smith
Most common genre
Comedy
28 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
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
6.6
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Dog Man, The 4:30 Movie, Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. Steven Universe: The Movie, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island.
Most productive era
2010s
20 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 | 7.21 film | 6.01 film |
| Action | 6.73 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.719 films | 6.79 films |
| Crime | 5.91 film | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 7.01 film | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010When in Rome
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Stacy.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
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.
Most recent film
2025Dog Man
The current state of the argument, as Dippy (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.
33 of 33 films
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Directed by Tim Divar
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Directed by Maxwell Atoms
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The Clerks 3 Documentary (2022)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Kate Micucci a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Velma Dinkley (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
Performance score7.9
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Velma Dinkley (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Velma Dinkley (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (2016)
Performance score7.9
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Velma Dinkley (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Velma Dinkley (voice)
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Performance score7.8
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Velma Dinkley (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
Start here. The Clerks 3 Documentary is the clearest statement of what Kate Micucci does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kate 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.
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Clerks 3 Documentary — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost but asks for a colder reading of it.
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Keeps the mystery register of Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Cecilia Aranovich
Director
3 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
Kevin Smith
Director
3 films together
Notably Clerks III
Ethan Spaulding
Director
2 films together
Notably LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably When in Rome
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably Rudderless
Bobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together
Notably Planes: Fire & Rescue
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Rio 2
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Tim Divar
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
Rick Morales
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Show Dogs
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together
Notably Steven Universe: The Movie
Maxwell Atoms
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
Jonathan Stern
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
Lena Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Flora & Ulysses
Melchior Zwyer
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob
Audie Harrison
Director
1 film together
Notably Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Cecilia Aranovich
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th GhostKevin Smith
Director
3 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Clerks IIIEthan Spaulding
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach BashDoug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet GhostMaxwell Atoms
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!Matt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's ShowdownJonathan Stern
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, Where Are You Now!Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steven Universe: The MovieMelchior Zwyer
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the ScoobTim Divar
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed DemonPeter Hastings
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog ManRick Morales
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted HollywoodJake Castorena
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the BoldWilliam H. Macy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RudderlessAudie Harrison
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!Lena Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flora & UlyssesCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rio 2Bobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Planes: Fire & RescueMike Mitchell
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 SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of WaterRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Show DogsMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When in RomeSix 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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Sadie Miller (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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
as Mooby's Fun-ployee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Clerks 3 Documentary
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. Kate Micucci 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
28 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
The Clerks 3 Documentary
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Clerks 3 Documentary
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Sadie Miller (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Clerks 3 Documentary
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog Man
as Dippy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dog Man
as Dippy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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