Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26798
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rick D. Wasserman 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.
Rick D. Wasserman appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rick. Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, science fiction, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brandon Vietti, Michael Giacchino, Jeff Wamester and others, Rick D. Wasserman 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.
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018) as Mictlantecuhtli (voice) · Watchmen: Chapter I (2024) as Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (voice) · Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021) as Bodyguard (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #26798 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2010–2024
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
Most frequent director
Brandon Vietti
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Brandon Vietti
Most common genre
Animation
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
2020s
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Watchmen: Chapter II, Watchmen: Chapter I, Werewolf by Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Norm of the North.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | — | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.73 films | 7.03 films |
| Comedy | 5.02 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.41 film |
| Horror | 7.71 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rocky (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
7.7 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 Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (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.
9 of 9 films
as Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as Edward Blake / Comedian (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Bodyguard (voice)
Directed by Chris Palmer
as Weather Wizard (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
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
Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mictlantecuhtli (voice) gives Rick D. Wasserman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Edward Blake / Comedian (voice)
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Performance score7.2
Watchmen: Chapter II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Edward Blake / Comedian (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (voice)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Performance score7.2
Watchmen: Chapter I asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bodyguard (voice)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Performance score7.2
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bodyguard (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 Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
Start here. Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie is the clearest statement of what Rick D. Wasserman does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rick 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.
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Keeps the action register of Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Keeps the action register of Justice League vs. Teen Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Keeps the mystery register of Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two but asks for a colder reading of it.
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Same director as Watchmen: Chapter II, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together
Notably Watchmen: Chapter I
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League vs. Teen Titans
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
Jeff Wamester
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Lantern: Beware My Power
Michael Giacchino
Director
1 film together
Notably Werewolf by Night
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Watchmen: Chapter IDoug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Constantine: City of Demons - The MovieChris Palmer
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part TwoSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League vs. Teen TitansMichael Giacchino
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Werewolf by NightJeff Wamester
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green Lantern: Beware My PowerBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty GaloreSix 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
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
as Mictlantecuhtli (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
Watchmen: Chapter I
as Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (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
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
as Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Rocky (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
as Mictlantecuhtli (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. Rick D. Wasserman 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
7 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
Watchmen: Chapter II
as Edward Blake / Comedian (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
as Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Watchmen: Chapter I
as Edward Blake / Comedian / Male Citizen #1 / Photographer #2 (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Watchmen: Chapter II
as Edward Blake / Comedian (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
as Mictlantecuhtli (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Rocky (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Rocky (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Werewolf by Night
as Narrator (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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