Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4830
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Leonardo Nam 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.
Leonardo Nam appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Leonardo. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 romance, drama, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katie Aselton, Kimmy Gatewood, Jennifer Phang and others, Leonardo Nam 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.
DC Showcase: Death (2019) as Vincent Omata (voice) · Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026) as Maddox Hatter · DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020) as Vincent Omata (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
DC Showcase: Death
Most frequent director
Ken Kwapis
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ken Kwapis
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
8.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. DC Showcase: Death — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
8.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
8.5
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. He's Just Not That Into You, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Vantage Point.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.46 films | 8.51 film | 4.33 films |
| Action | 6.52 films | — | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.52 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.35 films | — | 6.73 films |
| Crime | 6.33 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.52 films | — | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Roy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2026Descendants: Wicked Wonderland
The current state of the argument, as Maddox Hatter.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Vincent Omata (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Maddox Hatter
Directed by Kimmy Gatewood
as Liorn
Directed by Michael Giacchino
as Vincent Omata (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
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
Vincent Omata (voice)
DC Showcase: Death (2019)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vincent Omata (voice) gives Leonardo Nam a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maddox Hatter
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026)
Performance score7.3
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maddox Hatter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Liorn
Werewolf by Night (2022)
Performance score7.1
Werewolf by Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Liorn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Angus
Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)
Performance score7.0
Marvelous and the Black Hole asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Vincent Omata (voice)
Start here. DC Showcase: Death is the clearest statement of what Leonardo Nam does — accessible, 19 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Leonardo 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.
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Keeps the animation register of DC Showcase: Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Werewolf by Night (2022)
Keeps the action register of DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family but asks for a colder reading of it.
Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Werewolf by Night — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Marvelous and the Black Hole — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ken Kwapis
Director
2 films together
Notably He's Just Not That Into You
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perfect Score
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably 10 Items or Less
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Pete Travis
Director
1 film together
Notably Vantage Point
Sanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Death
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably YES DAY
Michael Giacchino
Director
1 film together
Notably Werewolf by Night
Ava DuVernay
Director
1 film together
Notably Origin
Jennifer Phang
Director
1 film together
Notably Descendants: The Rise of Red
Kimmy Gatewood
Director
1 film together
Notably Descendants: Wicked Wonderland
Katie Aselton
Director
1 film together
Notably Their Town
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ken Kwapis
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
He's Just Not That Into YouSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: DeathKimmy Gatewood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Descendants: Wicked WonderlandBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyMichael Giacchino
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Werewolf by NightJennifer Phang
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Descendants: The Rise of RedMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
YES DAYJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftPete Travis
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vantage PointSanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Ava DuVernay
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OriginBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10 Items or LessBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perfect ScoreKatie Aselton
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Their TownSix 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
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (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
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (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
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Origin
as Nathan Kostlin
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (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. Leonardo Nam 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
22 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Werewolf by Night
as Liorn
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Origin
as Nathan Kostlin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
as Morimoto
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
DC Showcase: Death
as Vincent Omata (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Descendants: The Rise of Red
as Maddox Hatter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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