Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#493
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nick Kroll 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.
Nick Kroll appears in 32 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. GOAT is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyree Dillihay, Chris Miller, Jake Kasdan and others, Nick Kroll 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.
GOAT (2026) as Modo Olachenko (voice) · Sing 2 (2021) as Gunter (voice) · Come Home (2021) as Gunter (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #493 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
32
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
GOAT
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
GOAT
Most frequent director
Garth Jennings
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Garth Jennings
Most common genre
Comedy
27 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. I Love You, Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. I Love You, Man.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | — | 6.14 films | 4.81 film |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.213 films | 6.613 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.03 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009I Love You, Man
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Larry.
Highest rated performance
2021Sing 2
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022Minions & More 2
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Roommates
The current state of the argument, as Brian.
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.
32 of 32 films
as Gunter (voice)
Directed by Scott Mosier
as Modo Olachenko (voice)
Directed by Tyree Dillihay
as Gunter (voice)
Directed by Garth Jennings
as Gunter (voice)
Directed by Garth Jennings
as Gunter (voice)
Directed by Garth Jennings
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Gunter (voice)
Minions & More 2 (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gunter (voice) gives Nick Kroll a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Modo Olachenko (voice)
GOAT (2026)
Performance score7.6
GOAT asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Modo Olachenko (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gunter (voice)
Sing 2 (2021)
Performance score7.6
Sing 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gunter (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gunter (voice)
Come Home (2021)
Performance score7.6
Come Home asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gunter (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 Gunter (voice)
Start here. Minions & More 2 is the clearest statement of what Nick Kroll does — accessible, 54 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nick 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.
Sing 2 (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Minions & More 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Come Home (2021)
Same director as Sing 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Sing: Thriller (2024)
Same director as Come Home, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
GOAT (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Sing: Thriller but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Garth Jennings
Director
4 films together
Notably Sing 2
Conrad Vernon
Director
3 films together
Notably The Addams Family 2
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love You, Man
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Him to the Greek
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Dinner for Schmucks
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Fockers
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Date Night
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Adult Beginners
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight of Cups
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Vacation
Charles Stone III
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncle Drew
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Operation Finale
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Donick Cary
Director
1 film together
Notably Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably How It Ends
Scott Mosier
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More 2
Loren Bouchard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bob's Burgers Movie
Olivia Wilde
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Worry Darling
Chelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together
Notably First Time Female Director
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Red One
Chris Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs
Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together
Notably GOAT
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Garth Jennings
Director
4 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sing 2Conrad Vernon
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Addams Family 2Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GOATScott Mosier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More 2Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red OneChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2Loren Bouchard
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bob's Burgers MovieOlivia Wilde
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Worry DarlingChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Operation FinaleCharles Stone III
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uncle DrewDonick Cary
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in PsychedelicsJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love You, ManJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VacationShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date NightNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get Him to the GreekChris Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SmurfsTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight of CupsPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little FockersJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dinner for SchmucksRoss Katz
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adult BeginnersZoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How It EndsChelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together · 3.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First Time Female DirectorSix 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
Sing 2
as Gunter (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
Sing: Thriller
as Gunter (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
Sing 2
as Gunter (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Knight of Cups
as Nick
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Minions & More 2
as Gunter (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. Nick Kroll 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
27 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
GOAT
as Modo Olachenko (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Don't Worry Darling
as Dean
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Smurfs
as Chernobog (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Don't Worry Darling
as Dean
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Red One
as Ted
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Red One
as Ted
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sing: Thriller
as Gunter (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Red One
as Ted
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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