Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6191
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mick Wingert 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.
Mick Wingert appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mick. The King of Kings is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for adventure, family, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mike Mitchell, Ken Cunningham, Sol Choi and others, Mick Wingert 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 King of Kings (2025) as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice) · David (2025) as Zaydel (voice) · Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019) as Mayor / Nature Show Narrator / Worker (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6191 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The King of Kings
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The King of Kings
Most frequent director
Mike Mitchell
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mike Mitchell
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.6
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
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. David, The King of Kings, Kung Fu Panda 4 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.5
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. The Princess and the Frog.
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 | — | — | 8.01 film |
| Action | — | 6.94 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.95 films | 7.01 film |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Romance | 7.31 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Travis (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
8.3 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. The current state of the argument, as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (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.
14 of 14 films
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Mayor / Nature Show Narrator / Worker (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as Joker Security Guy (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Travis (voice)
Directed by John Musker
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
Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
The King of Kings (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice) gives Mick Wingert a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Zaydel (voice)
David (2025)
Performance score7.8
David asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zaydel (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mayor / Nature Show Narrator / Worker (voice)
Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019)
Performance score7.4
Curious George: Royal Monkey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mayor / Nature Show Narrator / Worker (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joker Security Guy (voice)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Performance score7.2
Batman: Assault on Arkham asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joker Security 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
Start here. The King of Kings is the clearest statement of what Mick Wingert does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mick 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.
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Keeps the fantasy register of The King of Kings but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Keeps the animation register of The Princess and the Frog but asks for a colder reading of it.
Curious George: Royal Monkey (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Batman: Assault on Arkham but asks for a colder reading of it.
David (2025)
Keeps the adventure register of Curious George: Royal Monkey but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Princess and the Frog
Tim Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Assault on Arkham
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda 3
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George: Royal Monkey
Sol Choi
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron
Ken Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda 4
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious George: Royal MonkeyEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Assault on ArkhamJohn Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Princess and the FrogMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda 4Tim Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda HolidayJennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda 3Ken Cunningham
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code RedSol Choi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Rising: Heart of IronSix 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 King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (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 King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (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 King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
David
as Zaydel (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (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. Mick Wingert 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in animation, 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 King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Assault on Arkham
as Joker Security Guy (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
David
as Zaydel (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The King of Kings
as Gaspar / Pharisee Mahaliell (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Old Bunny Patron (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Old Bunny Patron (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Princess and the Frog
as Travis (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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