Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#79446
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Nicolas Roye represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Nicolas is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Nicolas Roye appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nicolas. You've Got This is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. 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 Karen J. Lloyd, Conrad Helten, Salvador Espinosa and others, Nicolas Roye 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.
You've Got This (2020) as Alejandro (voice) · Double Jeopardy (1999) as Bell Hop (uncredited) · Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025) as Rafa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #79446 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1999–2025
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
You've Got This
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
You've Got This
Most frequent director
Karen J. Lloyd
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Karen J. Lloyd
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 4m
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
6.3
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
1990s
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Double Jeopardy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
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. Double Jeopardy.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Thriller | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.73 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Double Jeopardy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bell Hop (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020You've Got This
7.2 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
2025Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship
The current state of the argument, as Rafa (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.
5 of 5 films
as Alejandro (voice)
Directed by Salvador Espinosa
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
Directed by Bruce Beresford
as Rafa (voice)
Directed by Karen J. Lloyd
as Octane (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Rafa / Peanut Guy / Goat Herder / Dino Guy (voice)
Directed by Conrad Helten
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
Alejandro (voice)
You've Got This (2020)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alejandro (voice) gives Nicolas Roye a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bell Hop (uncredited)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Performance score6.6
Double Jeopardy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bell Hop (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rafa (voice)
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025)
Performance score6.5
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rafa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Octane (voice)
Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Family Business" (2022)
Performance score6.5
Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Family Business" asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Octane (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Alejandro (voice)
Start here. You've Got This is the clearest statement of what Nicolas Roye does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nicolas 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.
Double Jeopardy (1999)
A deliberate change of key after You've Got This — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Family Business" (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Double Jeopardy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Barbie: Epic Road Trip (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Family Business" but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Barbie: Epic Road Trip but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Double Jeopardy
Salvador Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably You've Got This
Conrad Helten
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie: Epic Road Trip
Karen J. Lloyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Salvador Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You've Got ThisBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Double JeopardyKaren J. Lloyd
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for FriendshipConrad Helten
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barbie: Epic Road TripSix 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
You've Got This
as Alejandro (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
You've Got This
as Alejandro (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
You've Got This
as Alejandro (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Double Jeopardy
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You've Got This
as Alejandro (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. Nicolas Roye 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
26 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
3 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
Double Jeopardy
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Double Jeopardy
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You've Got This
as Alejandro (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Double Jeopardy
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
You've Got This
as Alejandro (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
You've Got This
as Alejandro (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You've Got This
as Alejandro (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Double Jeopardy
as Bell Hop (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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