Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11296
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lance Bass 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.
Lance Bass appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lance. Trolls Band Together is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, music, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with E-Type, Walt Dohrn, Ashley S Gorman and others, Lance Bass 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.
Trolls Band Together (2023) as Boom (voice) · Tropic Thunder (2008) as Lance Bass · Baby Shark's Big Movie (2024) as Lance Bass (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11296 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2001–2024
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Trolls Band Together
Average Nutevio score
4.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Trolls Band Together
Most frequent director
Ben Stiller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ben Stiller
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
2000s
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Tropic Thunder, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Zoolander — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.3
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. Tropic Thunder, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Zoolander.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 5.31 film | 6.92 films |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Zoolander
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lance Bass.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
The current state of the argument, as Lance Bass (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.
8 of 8 films
as Boom (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
as Lance Bass (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Lance Bass
Directed by Ben Stiller
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by E-Type
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
Boom (voice)
Trolls Band Together (2023)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Boom (voice) gives Lance Bass a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lance Bass (voice)
Baby Shark's Big Movie (2024)
Performance score6.6
Baby Shark's Big Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lance Bass (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lance Bass
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Performance score6.6
Tropic Thunder asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lance Bass is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self (archive footage)
E-Type: The way I wanna live (2023)
Performance score6.5
E-Type: The way I wanna live asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) 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 Boom (voice)
Start here. Trolls Band Together is the clearest statement of what Lance Bass does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lance 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.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls Band Together but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Very Boy Band Holiday (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Tropic Thunder — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
E-Type: The way I wanna live (2023)
Keeps the music register of A Very Boy Band Holiday but asks for a colder reading of it.
Baby Shark's Big Movie (2024)
Keeps the music register of E-Type: The way I wanna live but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ben Stiller
Director
2 films together
Notably Tropic Thunder
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Ross Shuman
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell and Back
Ashley S Gorman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Very Boy Band Holiday
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Band Together
E-Type
Director
1 film together
Notably E-Type: The way I wanna live
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ben Stiller
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Tropic ThunderWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Band TogetherDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & LarryRoss Shuman
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell and BackE-Type
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
E-Type: The way I wanna liveAshley S Gorman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Very Boy Band HolidaySix 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
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (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
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (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
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tropic Thunder
as Lance Bass
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (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. Lance Bass 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
23 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
6 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
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Lance Bass (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tropic Thunder
as Lance Bass
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trolls Band Together
as Boom (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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