Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8622
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kim Roberts 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.
Kim Roberts appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kim. Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jenna MacMillan, Jamie Whitney, Charles E. Bastien and others, Kim Roberts 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.
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event (2022) as Mayor Goodway · A Paw Patrol Christmas (2025) as Mayor Goodway (voice) · PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) as Mayor Goodway (Voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8622 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
Most frequent director
Darren Lynn Bousman
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Darren Lynn Bousman
Most common genre
Comedy
7 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
6.8
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kindness of Strangers, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S, Carrie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Charlie Bartlett, Saw IV, I'm Not There.
Most productive era
2000s
7 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 | 6.62 films | 6.22 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | 6.42 films | — | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.14 films | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.13 films | 7.31 film | 4.73 films |
| Crime | 6.42 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 7.31 film | — |
| Horror | 6.63 films | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002The Tuxedo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as ER Nurse.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
7.5 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
2026Julián
The current state of the argument, as Anabel (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.
17 of 17 films
as Mayor Goodway
Directed by Charles E. Bastien
as Mayor Goodway (voice)
Directed by Jamie Whitney
as Mayor Goodway (Voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Eliza's Mom
Directed by Paul Hoen
as Cora
Directed by Zack Snyder
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
Mayor Goodway
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event (2022)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mayor Goodway gives Kim Roberts a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Mayor Goodway (voice)
A Paw Patrol Christmas (2025)
Performance score7.2
A Paw Patrol Christmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mayor Goodway (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mayor Goodway (Voice)
PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
Performance score7.2
PAW Patrol: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mayor Goodway (Voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eliza's Mom
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
Performance score7.2
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eliza's Mom 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 Mayor Goodway
Start here. Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event is the clearest statement of what Kim Roberts does — accessible, 68 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kim 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.
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Dawn of the Dead — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Z-O-M-B-I-E-S but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Paw Patrol Christmas (2025)
Keeps the adventure register of PAW Patrol: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
2 films together
Notably Saw III
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Dawn of the Dead
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Man of the Year
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Not There
Jon Poll
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie Bartlett
Kimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together
Notably Carrie
Paul Hoen
Director
1 film together
Notably Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kindness of Strangers
Charles E. Bastien
Director
1 film together
Notably Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
Jamie Whitney
Director
1 film together
Notably A Paw Patrol Christmas
Jenna MacMillan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Snake
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Saw IIICharles E. Bastien
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive EventJamie Whitney
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Paw Patrol ChristmasPaul Hoen
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Z-O-M-B-I-E-SZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dawn of the DeadJon Poll
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie BartlettTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Not ThereLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kindness of StrangersKimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CarrieBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Man of the YearJenna MacMillan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SnakeSix 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
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
as Eliza's Mom
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
I'm Not There
as Mrs. Arvin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
as Mayor Goodway
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Saw IV
as Nurse Deborah
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
as Mayor Goodway
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. Kim Roberts 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
24 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
7 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
Cat Pack: A PAW Patrol Exclusive Event
as Mayor Goodway
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dawn of the Dead
as Cora
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
I'm Not There
as Mrs. Arvin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Is There a Killer in My Family?
as Mrs. Palmer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Mayor Goodway (Voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Mayor Goodway (Voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charlie Bartlett
as Dr. Linda Jenkins
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saw III
as Deborah
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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