Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7598
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Peter Renaday represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 51 years in, and Peter is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Peter Renaday appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Peter. Mulan 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for animation, romance, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Musker, Tony Bancroft, Bruce Timm and others, Peter Renaday 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.
Mulan (1998) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Princess and the Frog (2009) as Additional Voices (voice) · Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7598 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1968–2019
Career length
51 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Mulan
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Mulan
Most frequent director
John Musker
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With John Musker
Most common genre
Family
8 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
7.1
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
7.0
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
7.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Mulan, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Love Bug.
Most productive era
1970s
3 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | — | — | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 6.72 films | — | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | 7.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | — | 7.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1968The Love Bug
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Policeman on Bridge.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1998Mulan
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
The current state of the argument, as Forever Tree.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tony Bancroft
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Bruce Timm
as Milkman / Le Petit Café Cook / Truck Movers (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Mulan (1998)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Peter Renaday a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Performance score7.2
The Princess and the Frog asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 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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Additional Voices (voice)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Performance score7.2
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 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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Milkman / Le Petit Café Cook / Truck Movers (voice) (uncredited)
The Aristocats (1970)
Performance score7.2
The Aristocats asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Milkman / Le Petit Café Cook / Truck Movers (voice) (uncredited) 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Mulan is the clearest statement of what Peter Renaday does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Peter 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 Aristocats (1970)
Keeps the adventure register of Mulan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Keeps the animation register of The Aristocats but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Keeps the animation register of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm but asks for a colder reading of it.
Piney: The Lonesome Pine (2019)
Keeps the animation register of The Princess and the Frog but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Stevenson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Love Bug
Robert Butler
Director
1 film together
Notably The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Aristocats
Art Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rescuers
Norman Tokar
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat from Outer Space
Richard Rich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Black Cauldron
Bruce Timm
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Princess and the Frog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MulanJohn Musker
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 Princess and the FrogBruce Timm
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: Mask of the PhantasmWolfgang Reitherman
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 AristocatsArt Stevens
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 RescuersRobert Stevenson
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Love BugRichard Rich
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Black CauldronRobert Butler
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Computer Wore Tennis ShoesNorman Tokar
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 Cat from Outer SpaceSix 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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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
Mulan
as 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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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. Peter Renaday 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
51 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in family, 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
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Princess and the Frog
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Princess and the Frog
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Lt. Hannah
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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