Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7910
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Liza Koshy 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.
Liza Koshy appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Liza. VOMO: Vote or Miss Out is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 comedy, horror, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Bacon, Adam Shankman, John Hamburg and others, Liza Koshy 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.
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020) as Self · KPop Demon Hunters (2025) as Host (voice) · My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) as Zipp Storm (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7910 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2020–2026
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
Most frequent director
Kevin Bacon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kevin Bacon
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.2
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
5.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Family Movie, The Man with the Bag, Focker-in-Law — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.6
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Family Movie, The Man with the Bag, Focker-in-Law.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film |
| Action | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | 5.514 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 3.93 films |
| Horror | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Self. The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Focker-in-Law
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.
15 of 15 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Host (voice)
Directed by Chris Appelhans
as Jasmine Hale
Directed by Laura Terruso
as Zipp Storm (voice)
Directed by José Luis Ucha
as Margo (voice)
Directed by Kirk DeMicco
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
Self
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Liza Koshy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Host (voice)
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Performance score7.8
KPop Demon Hunters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Host (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Jasmine Hale
Work It (2020)
Performance score7.8
Work It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jasmine Hale is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Zipp Storm (voice)
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)
Performance score7.7
My Little Pony: A New Generation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zipp Storm (voice) 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 Self
Start here. VOMO: Vote or Miss Out is the clearest statement of what Liza Koshy does — accessible, 45 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Liza 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.
Work It (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of VOMO: Vote or Miss Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Work It but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of My Little Pony: A New Generation but asks for a colder reading of it.
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Laura Terruso
Director
1 film together
Notably Work It
José Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: A New Generation
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Burger 2
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Cat Person
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Steven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together
Notably A Family Affair
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Naked Gun
Jillian Bell
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer of 69
Chris Appelhans
Director
1 film together
Notably KPop Demon Hunters
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Focker-in-Law
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Bag
Kevin Bacon
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Appelhans
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KPop Demon HuntersJosé Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: A New GenerationLaura Terruso
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Work ItSteven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Rise of the BeastsKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ruby Gillman, Teenage KrakenJillian Bell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer of 69Akiva Schaffer
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 Naked GunPhil Traill
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Burger 2Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Family AffairSusanna Fogel
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cat PersonKevin Bacon
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family MovieAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the BagJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Focker-in-LawSix 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
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Zipp Storm (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
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Good Burger 2
as Wilma the Technician
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
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. Liza Koshy 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
14 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
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Zipp Storm (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
KPop Demon Hunters
as Host (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Arcee (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
KPop Demon Hunters
as Host (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Arcee (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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