Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#455
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Piotr Michael 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.
Piotr Michael appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Piotr. The Wild Robot is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 action, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Travis Knight, Chris Appelhans, Dan Trachtenberg and others, Piotr Michael 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.
The Wild Robot (2024) as Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (voice) · To: Gerard (2020) as The Great Vivonti (voice) · KPop Demon Hunters (2025) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #455 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
The Wild Robot
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Wild Robot
Most frequent director
Travis Knight
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Travis Knight
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
6.4
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
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Lucky, Incredibles 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Lucky, Incredibles 2.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.92 films |
| Action | 7.51 film | 7.36 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.68 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Incredibles 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Career peak
2020To: Gerard
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2024The Wild Robot
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Ship (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.
19 of 19 films
as The Great Vivonti (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (voice)
Directed by Chris Sanders
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Appelhans
as Gunnar (voice)
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
as Pop Pop / Boat Henchman / Karaoke Patron (voice)
Directed by Kyle Marshall
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
The Great Vivonti (voice)
To: Gerard (2020)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Great Vivonti (voice) gives Piotr Michael a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (voice)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Performance score8.1
The Wild Robot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (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)
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Performance score7.8
KPop Demon Hunters 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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Gunnar (voice)
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
Performance score7.6
Predator: Killer of Killers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gunnar (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 The Great Vivonti (voice)
Start here. To: Gerard is the clearest statement of what Piotr Michael does — accessible, 7 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Piotr 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 Wild Robot (2024)
Keeps the family register of To: Gerard but asks for a colder reading of it.
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie (2024)
Keeps the adventure register of The Wild Robot but asks for a colder reading of it.
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
Keeps the animation register of KPop Demon Hunters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Bill & Ted Face the Music
Jeremy Konner
Director
1 film together
Notably Waffles + Mochi's Holiday Feast
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Ryan Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Taz: Quest for Burger
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon 5: The Road Home
Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Studio
Kyle Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Robot
Darin McGowan
Director
1 film together
Notably A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
Dan Trachtenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Predator: Killer of Killers
Chris Appelhans
Director
1 film together
Notably KPop Demon Hunters
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Masters of the Universe
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild RobotChris Appelhans
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KPop Demon HuntersDan Trachtenberg
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Predator: Killer of KillersDan Abraham
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a StudioFrancisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Travis Knight
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Masters of the UniverseDarin McGowan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or NiceKyle Marshall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to Spy: A Loud House MovieChris Palmer
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Man of TomorrowMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Babylon 5: The Road HomeRyan Kramer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Taz: Quest for BurgerDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bill & Ted Face the MusicJeremy Konner
Director
1 film together · 2.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Waffles + Mochi's Holiday FeastSix 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
The Wild Robot
as Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (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
To: Gerard
as The Great Vivonti (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 Wild Robot
as Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
To: Gerard
as The Great Vivonti (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. Piotr Michael 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
15 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
The Wild Robot
as Broadfoot / Weasel 3 (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Gunnar (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
To: Gerard
as The Great Vivonti (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Bellroc (Male Voice) / Skrael (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Bellroc (Male Voice) / Skrael (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
as Pop Pop / Boat Henchman / Karaoke Patron (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
KPop Demon Hunters
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Masters of the Universe
as Ship (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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