Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5936
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kurt Yue 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.
Kurt Yue appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kurt. The Unbreakable Boy is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 horror, family, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jon Gunn, Josh Boone, Stephen Herek and others, Kurt Yue 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 Unbreakable Boy (2025) as OI Doctor · Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) as Kellogg's Boss · Black Widow (2021) as Ross Lieutenant
Career snapshot
Ranked #5936 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Unbreakable Boy
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Unbreakable Boy
Most frequent director
Jon Gunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jon Gunn
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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. SuperFly, Venom, Tag — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. SuperFly, Venom, Tag.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | — | 6.79 films |
| Action | 6.73 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.23 films |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.65 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.42 films |
| Romance | — | 6.83 films |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sushi Chef.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.7 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
2026Faces of Death
The current state of the argument, as Neal.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Ross Lieutenant
Directed by Cate Shortland
as Doctor
Directed by Josh Boone
as Cheesy DJ
Directed by John Whitesell
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
OI Doctor
The Unbreakable Boy (2025)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. OI Doctor gives Kurt Yue a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kellogg's Boss
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
Performance score7.2
Jerry & Marge Go Large asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kellogg's Boss is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ross Lieutenant
Black Widow (2021)
Performance score7.2
Black Widow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ross Lieutenant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doctor
Regretting You (2025)
Performance score7.0
Regretting You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doctor 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 OI Doctor
Start here. The Unbreakable Boy is the clearest statement of what Kurt Yue does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kurt 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.
Holidate (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Unbreakable Boy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Widow (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Holidate — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Black Widow — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Regretting You (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Jerry & Marge Go Large but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bad Moms Christmas
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom
Director X.
Director
1 film together
Notably SuperFly
Jon Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably Irresistible
John Whitesell
Director
1 film together
Notably Holidate
Elisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together
Notably Switched Before Birth
Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Widow
Jared Cohn
Director
1 film together
Notably Vendetta
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Jerry & Marge Go Large
Justin Simien
Director
1 film together
Notably Haunted Mansion
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Juror #2
Stephen Herek
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Little Secret
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Regretting You
Jon Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unbreakable Boy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Gunn
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Unbreakable BoyDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jerry & Marge Go LargeCate Shortland
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black WidowJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Regretting YouJohn Whitesell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HolidateClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Juror #2Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VenomDirector X.
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperFlyJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagJustin Simien
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Haunted MansionElisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Switched Before BirthJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Bad Moms ChristmasStephen Herek
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Little SecretJared Cohn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VendettaJon Stewart
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IrresistibleSix 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 Unbreakable Boy
as OI Doctor
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Regretting You
as Doctor
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 Unbreakable Boy
as OI Doctor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Widow
as Ross Lieutenant
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Unbreakable Boy
as OI Doctor
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. Kurt Yue 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, 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 Unbreakable Boy
as OI Doctor
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Reptile
as Forensic Examiner
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Regretting You
as Doctor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Reptile
as Forensic Examiner
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Black Widow
as Ross Lieutenant
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Widow
as Ross Lieutenant
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Our Little Secret
as Priest
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Black Widow
as Ross Lieutenant
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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