Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#288
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Warburton represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Patrick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Patrick Warburton appears in 41 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Zootopia 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, animation, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Byron Howard, Justin Matthews, Jerry Seinfeld and others, Patrick Warburton 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.
Zootopia 2 (2025) as Mayor Winddancer (voice) · Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019) as Magic Mirror (voice) · The Emperor's New Groove (2000) as Kronk (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #288 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
41
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Zootopia 2
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Zootopia 2
Most frequent director
Seth MacFarlane
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Seth MacFarlane
Most common genre
Comedy
33 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
6.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Get Smart, Space Chimps — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.2
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.2
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. Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Get Smart, Space Chimps.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.81 film | 7.41 film | 5.82 films |
| Action | 6.44 films | 6.81 film | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | — | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.314 films | 6.213 films | 4.26 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Horror | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kronk (voice). 7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2014School Dance
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Robot Chicken [adult swim] 25th Anniversary Special
The current state of the argument, as Brock Sampson (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.
41 of 41 films
as Prairie Puff Man
Directed by Nick Cannon
as Kronk (voice)
Directed by Mark Dindal
as Brock Samson (voice)
Directed by Christopher McCulloch
as Mayor Winddancer (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Magic Mirror (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Prairie Puff Man
School Dance (2014)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Prairie Puff Man gives Patrick Warburton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kronk (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Performance score7.7
The Emperor's New Groove asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kronk (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Brock Samson (voice)
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
Performance score7.6
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brock Samson (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 Winddancer (voice)
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Performance score7.5
Zootopia 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mayor Winddancer (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 Prairie Puff Man
Start here. School Dance is the clearest statement of what Patrick Warburton does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick 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 Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Keeps the comedy register of School Dance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Emperor's New Groove but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Keeps the adventure register of The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mark Dindal
Director
2 films together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Seth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together
Notably Ted
Rob Sitch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dish
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream 3
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Men in Black II
Will Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Home on the Range
Pete Michels
Director
1 film together
Notably Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Sky High
Roger Allers
Director
1 film together
Notably Open Season
Simon J. Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Bee Movie
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Chimps
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Smart
Dominic Polcino
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Peter Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Bobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together
Notably Planes: Fire & Rescue
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Nick Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably School Dance
Fred Wolf
Director
1 film together
Notably Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Crackers
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Year
Christopher McCulloch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Mark A. Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Best Christmas Movies Ever!
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
Justin Matthews
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duel
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Zootopia 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mark Dindal
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Emperor's New GrooveSeth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TedByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zootopia 2Nick Cannon
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
School DanceChristopher McCulloch
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 Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon HeartDominic Polcino
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark SideMark A. Altman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Best Christmas Movies Ever!Pete Michels
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stewie Griffin: The Untold StoryPeter Shin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!Rob Sitch
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DishRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Peabody & ShermanBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men in Black IITony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal CrackersMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sky HighBobs Gannaway
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Planes: Fire & RescuePeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SmartSimon J. Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bee MovieRoger Allers
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Open SeasonWill Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home on the RangeWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scream 3Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wedding YearJustin Matthews
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuelJerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnfrostedKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space ChimpsFred Wolf
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful LoserBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Six 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
Zootopia 2
as Mayor Winddancer (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
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Magic Mirror (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 Emperor's New Groove
as Kronk (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sky High
as Royal Pain (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
School Dance
as Prairie Puff Man
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. Patrick Warburton 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
33 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
Zootopia 2
as Mayor Winddancer (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zootopia 2
as Mayor Winddancer (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Grandpa Shark (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inheritance
as Archer Monroe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Brock Samson (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Brock Samson (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Magic Mirror (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bee Movie
as Ken (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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