Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8210
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Neil Crone represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Neil is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Neil Crone appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Neil. The Fire Inside is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 romance, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jason Biggs, Rachel Morrison, Molly McGlynn and others, Neil Crone 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 Fire Inside (2024) as Spokane MC · PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) as Tony / Additional Voices (Voice) · It (2017) as Chief Borton
Career snapshot
Ranked #8210 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1999–2026
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Fire Inside
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Fire Inside
Most frequent director
Andy Muschietti
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andy Muschietti
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. It Chapter Two, It — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Pushing Tin.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 5.91 film | 6.42 films | 7.02 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | — | 6.41 film | — | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.52 films | 7.02 films | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 6.71 film | — | 6.46 films |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.71 film | — | 5.92 films |
| Horror | — | 4.51 film | 7.02 films | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Pushing Tin
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tom.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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.
Most recent film
2026Untitled Home Invasion Romance
The current state of the argument, as Terry.
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 Spokane MC
Directed by Rachel Morrison
as Tony / Additional Voices (Voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Chief Borton
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as Tony (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Chief Borton
Directed by Andy Muschietti
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
Spokane MC
The Fire Inside (2024)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Spokane MC gives Neil Crone a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tony / Additional Voices (Voice)
PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
Performance score7.2
PAW Patrol: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tony / 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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Chief Borton
It (2017)
Performance score7.1
It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chief Borton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tony (voice)
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)
Performance score6.8
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tony (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 Spokane MC
Start here. The Fire Inside is the clearest statement of what Neil Crone does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Neil 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.
It (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Fire Inside but asks for a colder reading of it.
It Chapter Two (2019)
Same director as It, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
A deliberate change of key after It Chapter Two — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)
Same director as PAW Patrol: The Movie, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together
Notably It
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably Pushing Tin
Morgan J. Freeman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Psycho II: All American Girl
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Recruit
Allen Coulter
Director
1 film together
Notably Hollywoodland
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Hairspray
Roshan Sethi
Director
1 film together
Notably World's Best
Molly McGlynn
Director
1 film together
Notably Fitting In
Rachel Morrison
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fire Inside
Jason Biggs
Director
1 film together
Notably Untitled Home Invasion Romance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ItRachel Morrison
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 Fire InsideAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HairsprayMolly McGlynn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fitting InRoger Donaldson
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 RecruitRoshan Sethi
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
World's BestAllen Coulter
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HollywoodlandMike Newell
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pushing TinJason Biggs
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Untitled Home Invasion RomanceMorgan J. Freeman
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American Psycho II: All American GirlSix 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
It
as Chief Borton
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 Fire Inside
as Spokane MC
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Tony / 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 Fire Inside
as Spokane MC
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Fire Inside
as Spokane MC
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. Neil Crone 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
27 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
8 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 Fire Inside
as Spokane MC
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
It
as Chief Borton
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Fire Inside
as Spokane MC
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hollywoodland
as Chuck
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Tony / Additional Voices (Voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Tony / Additional Voices (Voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
PAW Patrol: The Movie
as Tony / Additional Voices (Voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fitting In
as Male Doctor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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