Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1193
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lo Mutuc 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.
Lo Mutuc appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lo. Goldie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nora Twomey, Mike Rianda, BenDavid Grabinski and others, Lo Mutuc 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.
Goldie (2019) as Goldie (voice) · The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) as Abbey Posey (voice) · Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) as Ruby (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1193 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2007–2022
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Goldie
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Steven Universe: The Movie
Most frequent director
Judd Apatow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Judd Apatow
Most common genre
Comedy
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.4
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. My Father's Dragon, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Happily — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. All About Steve, Semi-Pro, Knocked Up.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.31 film | 7.11 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.63 films | 6.67 films | 6.96 films |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 6.42 films | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Knocked Up
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jodi.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Goldie
8.0 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 Magda (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.
18 of 18 films
as Goldie (voice)
Directed by Emily Brundige
as Abbey Posey (voice)
Directed by Mike Rianda
as Ruby (voice)
Directed by Rebecca Sugar
as Chloe Park (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
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
Goldie (voice)
Goldie (2019)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Goldie (voice) gives Lo Mutuc a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Abbey Posey (voice)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
Performance score7.5
The Mitchells vs. the Machines asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abbey Posey (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ruby (voice)
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.5
Steven Universe: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruby (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mai (voice)
Next Gen (2018)
Performance score7.4
Next Gen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mai (voice) 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 Goldie (voice)
Start here. Goldie is the clearest statement of what Lo Mutuc does — accessible, 5 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lo 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.
Next Gen (2018)
Keeps the animation register of Goldie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Next Gen but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the tv movie register of Steven Universe: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of We Bare Bears: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together
Notably Knocked Up
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably All About Steve
Charlie Bean
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Ninjago Movie
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Second Act
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Jexi
Nahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Always Be My Maybe
Emily Brundige
Director
1 film together
Notably Goldie
Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together
Notably Steven Universe: The Movie
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bare Bears: The Movie
BenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Happily
Mike Rianda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Nora Twomey
Director
1 film together
Notably My Father's Dragon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Knocked UpEmily Brundige
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldieMike Rianda
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mitchells vs. the MachinesRebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steven Universe: The MovieDaniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bare Bears: The MovieWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistNora Twomey
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Father's DragonJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JexiNahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Always Be My MaybeCharlie Bean
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego Ninjago MoviePeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Second ActBenDavid Grabinski
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HappilyPhil Traill
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All About SteveSix 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
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
as Abbey Posey (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 World Tour
as Pennywhistle (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
Goldie
as Goldie (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
All About Steve
as Young Protester
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Goldie
as Goldie (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. Lo Mutuc 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
16 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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Ruby (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Goldie
as Goldie (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trolls World Tour
as Pennywhistle (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Father's Dragon
as Magda (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Next Gen
as Mai (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Next Gen
as Mai (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Pennywhistle (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jexi
as Elaine
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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