Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7025
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Marcelo Tubert represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Marcelo is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Marcelo Tubert appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marcelo. The Book of Life is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with William Teitler, Sam Liu, Jorge R. Gutierrez and others, Marcelo Tubert 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.
The Book of Life (2014) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) as Additional Voices (voice) · Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015) as Tough Guy (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7025 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1990–2026
Career length
36 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Book of Life
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Book of Life
Most frequent director
William Teitler
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With William Teitler
Most common genre
Comedy
6 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
6.9
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Justice League: Gods and Monsters, The Book of Life, G.I. Joe: Retaliation — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Vampire in Brooklyn, Postcards from the Edge.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | — | — | 4.31 film |
| Action | — | 5.71 film | 6.03 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.42 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.82 films | 6.22 films | — | 5.32 films |
| Crime | — | — | 5.11 film | — |
| Romance | 5.11 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | 5.11 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sound Editor.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014The Book of Life
7.5 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
2026Idiotka
The current state of the argument, as Oleg.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Kirk Wise
as Tough Guy (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick
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)
The Book of Life (2014)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Marcelo Tubert a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Performance score7.1
The Hunchback of Notre Dame asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tough Guy (voice)
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
Performance score7.0
Justice League: Gods and Monsters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tough Guy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Over the Hedge (2006)
Performance score6.6
Over the Hedge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. The Book of Life is the clearest statement of what Marcelo Tubert does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marcelo 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.
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
A deliberate change of key after The Book of Life — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Keeps the drama register of Postcards from the Edge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Over the Hedge (2006)
Keeps the family register of The Hunchback of Notre Dame but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
Keeps the adventure register of Over the Hedge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Postcards from the Edge
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Vampire in Brooklyn
Kirk Wise
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunchback of Notre Dame
John Pasquin
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Over the Hedge
Rob Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Alex Cross
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Life
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Gods and Monsters
William Teitler
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Therapy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of LifeKirk Wise
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunchback of Notre DameSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: Gods and MonstersKarey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over the HedgeMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Postcards from the EdgeJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
G.I. Joe: RetaliationJohn Pasquin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and FabulousRob Cohen
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alex CrossWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vampire in BrooklynWilliam Teitler
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TherapySix 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 Book of Life
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
The Book of Life
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
The Book of Life
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
The Book of Life
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Book of Life
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. Marcelo Tubert 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
36 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
6 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 Book of Life
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
as Tough Guy (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Book of Life
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Alex Cross
as Cloche
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
as Tough Guy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
as Tough Guy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Over the Hedge
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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