Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#51878
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Lee Eddy 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.
Lee Eddy appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lee. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 action, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Macon Blair, Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez and others, Lee Eddy 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.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) as Mom · I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) as Angie · The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025) as CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest
Career snapshot
Ranked #51878 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2016–2025
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Most frequent director
Macon Blair
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Macon Blair
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.1
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
2020s
6.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Toxic Avenger Unrated, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, We Can Be Heroes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
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
2020s
6.3
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. Mercy Black, Sister Aimee, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 7.01 film |
| Action | 5.51 film | 6.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 6.33 films |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — |
| Horror | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Lazer Team
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Radio Dispatcher (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
7.0 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 CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Mom
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Angie
Directed by Macon Blair
as CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest
Directed by Macon Blair
as Administrator
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
as Mrs. Bellows
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Mom
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mom gives Lee Eddy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Angie
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Performance score6.6
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest
The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025)
Performance score6.5
The Toxic Avenger Unrated asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Administrator
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
Performance score6.5
We Can Be Heroes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Administrator 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 Mom
Start here. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is the clearest statement of what Lee Eddy does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lee 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.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mercy Black (2019)
A deliberate change of key after I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Mercy Black — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025)
Keeps the action register of We Can Be Heroes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Macon Blair
Director
2 films together
Notably I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Matt Hullum
Director
1 film together
Notably Lazer Team
Samantha Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Sister Aimee
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably We Can Be Heroes
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Macon Blair
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
I Don't Feel at Home in This World AnymoreRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Apollo 10½: A Space Age ChildhoodRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Can Be HeroesSamantha Buck
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sister AimeeMatt Hullum
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lazer TeamSix 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
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as 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
Sister Aimee
as Hazel
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Mom
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
as CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Mom
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. Lee Eddy 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
5 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
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Mom
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mercy Black
as Mrs. Bellows
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sister Aimee
as Hazel
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mercy Black
as Mrs. Bellows
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Mom
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Lazer Team
as Radio Dispatcher (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
as Angie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
as Angie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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