Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11744
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Kimberly Bailey represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Kimberly is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kimberly Bailey appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kimberly. Curious George: Royal Monkey 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, emotional range. 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, Jared Hess, Chris Buck and others, Kimberly Bailey 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.
Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019) as Additional Voices (voice) · Incredibles 2 (2018) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Secret Life of Bees (2008) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11744 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1995–2025
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Curious George: Royal Monkey
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Curious George: Royal Monkey
Most frequent director
Peter Hastings
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Peter Hastings
Most common genre
Family
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.8
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Frozen II, Curious George: Royal Monkey, Incredibles 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Babe.
Most productive era
2000s
3 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film | 7.51 film | — | — |
| Action | — | 5.91 film | 7.51 film | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.42 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | — | 7.42 films | 7.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.42 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Babe
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sheep (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Curious George: Royal Monkey
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 Gym (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.
10 of 10 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
as Gym (voice)
Directed by Peter Hastings
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
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)
Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Kimberly Bailey a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Incredibles 2 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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Additional Voices (voice)
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Performance score7.3
The Secret Life of Bees 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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Gym (voice)
Dog Man (2025)
Performance score7.2
Dog Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gym (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. Curious George: Royal Monkey is the clearest statement of what Kimberly Bailey does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kimberly 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.
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Keeps the adventure register of Curious George: Royal Monkey but asks for a colder reading of it.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of The Secret Life of Bees but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frozen II (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Incredibles 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog Man (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Frozen II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chris Noonan
Director
1 film together
Notably Babe
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Phone Booth
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Bees
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George: Royal Monkey
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen II
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Thelma the Unicorn
Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious George: Royal MonkeyBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Gina Prince-Bythewood
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 Secret Life of BeesPeter 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 ManChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frozen IIJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thelma the UnicornJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phone BoothChris Noonan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabeRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsSix 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
Incredibles 2
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
The Secret Life of Bees
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
Curious George: Royal Monkey
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
Phone Booth
as (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Curious George: Royal Monkey
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. Kimberly Bailey 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
30 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
8 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
The Secret Life of Bees
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Phone Booth
as (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thelma the Unicorn
as Cheryl (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Phone Booth
as (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog Man
as Gym (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dog Man
as Gym (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Babe
as Sheep (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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