Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#51202
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Kevin G. Schmidt 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.
Kevin G. Schmidt appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kevin. Princess Protection Program is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 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, fantasy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Betty Thomas, Allison Liddi-Brown, Adam Shankman and others, Kevin G. Schmidt 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.
Princess Protection Program (2009) as Bull · Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) as Henry Baker · Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) as Henry Baker
Career snapshot
Ranked #51202 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2003–2009
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Princess Protection Program
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Princess Protection Program
Most frequent director
Betty Thomas
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Betty Thomas
Most common genre
Family
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.1
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
6.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Princess Protection Program, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Princess Protection Program, Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.42 films |
| Action | 5.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.24 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Henry Baker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2009Princess Protection Program
6.6 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. The current state of the argument, as Bull.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Bull
Directed by Allison Liddi-Brown
as Ryan
Directed by Betty Thomas
as Henry Baker
Directed by Adam Shankman
as Skip
Directed by Bart Freundlich
as Henry Baker
Directed by Shawn Levy
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
Bull
Princess Protection Program (2009)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bull gives Kevin G. Schmidt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ryan
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
Performance score6.5
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Henry Baker
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Performance score6.5
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henry Baker is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Skip
Catch That Kid (2004)
Performance score6.5
Catch That Kid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skip 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 Bull
Start here. Princess Protection Program is the clearest statement of what Kevin G. Schmidt does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kevin 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.
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Keeps the comedy register of Princess Protection Program but asks for a colder reading of it.
Catch That Kid (2004)
Keeps the family register of Cheaper by the Dozen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Keeps the adventure register of Catch That Kid but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
Keeps the comedy register of Cheaper by the Dozen 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen
Bart Freundlich
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch That Kid
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Allison Liddi-Brown
Director
1 film together
Notably Princess Protection Program
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Allison Liddi-Brown
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Princess Protection ProgramShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the DozenAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the Dozen 2Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The SqueakquelBart Freundlich
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch That KidSix 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
Princess Protection Program
as Bull
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Ryan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Princess Protection Program
as Bull
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
as Henry Baker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Princess Protection Program
as Bull
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. Kevin G. Schmidt 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in family, 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
Princess Protection Program
as Bull
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Princess Protection Program
as Bull
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Ryan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Ryan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Catch That Kid
as Skip
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Catch That Kid
as Skip
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Ryan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Ryan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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