Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4281
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kelly Stables 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.
Kelly Stables appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kelly. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Pierre Perifel, Peter Hastings, David Wachtenheim and others, Kelly Stables 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.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Bad Guys 2 (2025) as Maureen / Jenny (voice) · Dog Man (2025) as Harold (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4281 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2003–2025
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Bad Guys 2
Most frequent director
Pierre Perifel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Pierre Perifel
Most common genre
Comedy
12 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
6.9
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Bad Guys 2, Dog Man, Leo — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Hoodwinked!, The Ring Two, The Haunted Mansion.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.81 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Action | — | 7.11 film | 7.23 films |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | — | 7.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 6.74 films | 7.16 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | 7.51 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Queen Ghost (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
7.6 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 Harold (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.
15 of 15 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Francisco Ruiz Velasco
as Maureen / Jenny (voice)
Directed by Pierre Perifel
as Harold (voice)
Directed by Peter Hastings
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
as TikTok Voice (voice)
Directed by Will Merrick
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)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Kelly Stables a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maureen / Jenny (voice)
The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
Performance score7.3
The Bad Guys 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maureen / Jenny (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harold (voice)
Dog Man (2025)
Performance score7.2
Dog Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harold (voice) 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)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.2
Leo 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. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is the clearest statement of what Kelly Stables does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kelly 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.
Leo (2023)
Keeps the family register of Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Missing (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Leo — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Missing — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dog Man (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of The Bad Guys 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Haunted Mansion
Hideo Nakata
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ring Two
Cody Cameron
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Nora Twomey
Director
1 film together
Notably My Father's Dragon
Chris Bailey
Director
1 film together
Notably Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Will Merrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Missing
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Man
Pierre Perifel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bad Guys 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansPierre Perifel
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bad Guys 2Peter 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 ManDavid Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoWill Merrick
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MissingThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Nora Twomey
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Father's DragonChris Bailey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleCody Cameron
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2Hideo Nakata
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 Ring TwoRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Haunted MansionSix 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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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. Kelly Stables 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
12 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
Missing
as TikTok Voice (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Missing
as TikTok Voice (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Haunted Mansion
as Queen Ghost (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog Man
as Harold (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Bad Guys 2
as Maureen / Jenny (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Leo
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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