Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5168
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Matt Berry 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.
Matt Berry appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matt. The Wild Robot is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. 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 Jared Hess, Jeff Fowler, Duncan Jones and others, Matt Berry 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 Wild Robot (2024) as Paddler (voice) · Moon (2009) as Overmeyers · The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) as King Poseidon (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5168 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2009–2027
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
The Wild Robot
Average Nutevio score
4.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Wild Robot
Most frequent director
Jared Hess
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jared Hess
Most common genre
Family
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
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
2000s
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Moon — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.6
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. Moon.
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 | 7.61 film | 7.41 film | 3.12 films |
| Action | — | — | 0.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.72 films | 2.36 films |
| Romance | — | 7.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Moon
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Overmeyers.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024The Wild Robot
8.4 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.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Paddler (voice)
Directed by Chris Sanders
as Overmeyers
Directed by Duncan Jones
as King Poseidon (voice)
Directed by Tim Hill
as Policeman Bobby
Directed by Marc Forster
as Aaron
Directed by Lone Scherfig
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
Paddler (voice)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Paddler (voice) gives Matt Berry a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Overmeyers
Moon (2009)
Performance score7.4
Moon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Overmeyers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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King Poseidon (voice)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)
Performance score7.2
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. King Poseidon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Policeman Bobby
Christopher Robin (2018)
Performance score7.2
Christopher Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Policeman Bobby 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 Paddler (voice)
Start here. The Wild Robot is the clearest statement of what Matt Berry does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matt 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.
Moon (2009)
Keeps the science fiction register of The Wild Robot but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Day (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Moon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christopher Robin (2018)
A deliberate change of key after One Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Christopher Robin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Duncan Jones
Director
2 films together
Notably Moon
Jared Hess
Director
2 films together
Notably A Minecraft Movie
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably One Day
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Christopher Robin
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Jim Capobianco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Inventor
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Robot
Erica Rivinoja
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat in the Hat
Jeff Fowler
Director
1 film together
Notably Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Duncan Jones
Director
2 films together · 3.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MoonJared Hess
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Minecraft MovieChris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild RobotTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the RunLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One DayMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christopher RobinJim Capobianco
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InventorMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of WaterJeff Fowler
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sonic the Hedgehog 4Erica Rivinoja
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 Cat in the HatSix 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 Wild Robot
as Paddler (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
One Day
as Aaron
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 Wild Robot
as Paddler (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Minecraft Movie
as Nitwit (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wild Robot
as Paddler (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. Matt Berry 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in family, 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 Wild Robot
as Paddler (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wild Robot
as Paddler (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Inventor
as Pope Leo XI (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
as King Poseidon (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Wild Robot
as Paddler (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rogue Trooper
as (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Inventor
as Pope Leo XI (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Minecraft Movie
as Nitwit (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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