Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#483
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nolan North 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.
Nolan North appears in 31 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nolan. Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, rewatchability. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Logic, Zac Moncrief, Jeff Wamester and others, Nolan North 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.
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020) as Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice) · Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019) as Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) as David (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #483 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
31
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Most frequent director
Matt Peters
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Matt Peters
Most common genre
Animation
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief, TMNT, Ultimate Avengers: The Movie.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.93 films | 6.96 films | 6.87 films |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.82 films | 7.17 films | 6.66 films |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hank Pym / Giant Man (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
8.0 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
2025A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas
The current state of the argument, as Jasper T. Jowls / Rooftop Driver (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.
31 of 31 films
as Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice)
Directed by Todd Grimes
as Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice)
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich
as David (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Hans (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Jor-El (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
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
Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice)
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice) gives Nolan North a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
Performance score7.7
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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David (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
Performance score7.6
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hans (voice)
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
Performance score7.5
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hans (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 Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice)
Start here. Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama is the clearest statement of what Nolan North does — accessible, 37 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nolan 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.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
Keeps the mystery register of Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown but asks for a colder reading of it.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
Keeps the animation register of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matt Peters
Director
4 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Cecilia Aranovich
Director
2 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
Jeff Wamester
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Déjà Vu
Dick Sebast
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultimate Avengers 2
Steven E. Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
Craig Shapiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
Michael Chang
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman vs. The Elite
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek Into Darkness
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Assault on Arkham
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Don Michael Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Brian Presley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Alaskan Race
Kevin Wotton
Director
1 film together
Notably Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas
Erik Kling
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Todd Grimes
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncharted
Zac Moncrief
Director
1 film together
Notably A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas
Logic
Director
1 film together
Notably Paradise Records
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Peters
Director
4 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's ShowdownCecilia Aranovich
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th GhostJeff Wamester
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
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part OneTodd Grimes
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-RamaEthan 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 ArkhamJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek Into DarknessBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnchartedMichael Chang
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman vs. The EliteSteven E. Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultimate Avengers: The MovieTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Déjà VuKevin Wotton
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of ChristmasDick Sebast
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultimate Avengers 2Erik Kling
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Mega BlissmasZac Moncrief
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Chuck E. Cheese ChristmasDon Michael Paul
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death Race: Beyond AnarchyMike 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 WaterBrian Presley
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great Alaskan RaceCraig Shapiro
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the ChiefLogic
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paradise RecordsSix 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
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Vengeance Bridge Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Hans (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
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Déjà Vu
as Voice of Ex-Fiance (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Lee Dingman / Hugo Mouthingwad (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. Nolan North 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
23 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
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
as Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
as Asmodeus / Mortifer / Farmer Morgan (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Hans (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
as Computer / Joker / Superman (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Trek Into Darkness
as U.S.S. Vengeance Bridge Officer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Uncharted
as Hotel Guest
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Hans (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
as Hal Jordan / Amazo / Homeless Man (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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