Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4408
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Laura Marano 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.
Laura Marano appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Laura. Finding Nemo is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 drama, action, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gregory Jbara, Jesse V. Johnson, Adam Rifkin and others, Laura Marano 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.
Finding Nemo (2003) as Additional Voices (voice) · Superbad (2007) as Young Becca · Lady Bird (2017) as Diana Greenway
Career snapshot
Ranked #4408 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Finding Nemo
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Finding Nemo
Most frequent director
Gregory Jbara
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gregory Jbara
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
7.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Superbad, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Jacket — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. Superbad, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Jacket.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.82 films | 3.02 films |
| Action | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.21 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 7.22 films | 6.63 films | 6.62 films |
| Crime | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2003Finding Nemo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice). 8.1 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
2026Above & Below
The current state of the argument.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Isabella "Izzy"
Directed by Rick Jacobson
as Diana Greenway
Directed by Greta Gerwig
as Celia Lieberman
Directed by Unknown
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)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Laura Marano a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Isabella "Izzy"
The Royal Treatment (2022)
Performance score7.4
The Royal Treatment asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Isabella "Izzy" is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Diana Greenway
Lady Bird (2017)
Performance score7.2
Lady Bird asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diana Greenway is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Becca
Superbad (2007)
Performance score7.2
Superbad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Becca 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. Finding Nemo is the clearest statement of what Laura Marano does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Laura 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.
Superbad (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Finding Nemo — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Lady Bird (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Superbad but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Perfect Date (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Lady Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Royal Treatment (2022)
Keeps the romance register of The Perfect Date but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Finding Nemo
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jacket
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age: The Meltdown
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Superbad
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Bird
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Director
1 film together
Notably Saving Zoë
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The War with Grandpa
Rick Jacobson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Royal Treatment
Adam Rifkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Train to Fortune
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Above & Below
Gregory Jbara
Director
1 film together
Notably Original Sound
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finding NemoGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperbadGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady BirdCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Age: The MeltdownJohn Maybury
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JacketRick Jacobson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Royal TreatmentTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The War with GrandpaJeffrey G. Hunt
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saving ZoëAdam Rifkin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Train to FortuneGregory Jbara
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Original SoundJesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Above & BelowSix 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
Finding Nemo
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
Finding Nemo
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
Finding Nemo
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
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Finding Nemo
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. Laura Marano 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
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
The Jacket
as Young Jackie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Jacket
as Young Jackie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
as Hotel Babysitter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Jacket
as Young Jackie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
as Hotel Babysitter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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