Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1378
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rob Corddry 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.
Rob Corddry appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rob. The Way Way Back is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rod Lurie, Kyle Marvin, Donick Cary and others, Rob Corddry 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 Way Way Back (2013) as Kip · How to Be a Latin Lover (2017) as Quincy · The Senior (2025) as Sam Weston
Career snapshot
Ranked #1378 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
The Way Way Back
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
The Way Way Back
Most frequent director
Ken Marino
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ken Marino
Most common genre
Comedy
27 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.3
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
2010s
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dog Days, How to Be a Latin Lover, The Layover — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. The Winning Season, W., Semi-Pro.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 6.82 films | 5.73 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.99 films | 6.213 films | 4.55 films |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Romance | 6.04 films | 6.23 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Old School
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Warren.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013The Way Way Back
7.1 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
2026The Robot Chicken [adult swim] 25th Anniversary Special
The current state of the argument, as Dr. Blake Downs (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.
30 of 30 films
as Kip
Directed by Jim Rash
as Kurt Chapman
Directed by Ken Marino
as Warren
Directed by Lorene Scafaria
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
Kip
The Way Way Back (2013)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kip gives Rob Corddry a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sam Weston
The Senior (2025)
Performance score6.9
The Senior asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sam Weston is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kurt Chapman
Dog Days (2018)
Performance score6.8
Dog Days asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kurt Chapman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Quincy
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
Performance score6.8
How to Be a Latin Lover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Quincy 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 Kip
Start here. The Way Way Back is the clearest statement of what Rob Corddry does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rob 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.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of The Way Way Back but asks for a colder reading of it.
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog Days (2018)
Same director as How to Be a Latin Lover, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Senior (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Dog Days — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Josh Gordon
Director
2 films together
Notably Blades of Glory
Ken Marino
Director
2 films together
Notably How to Be a Latin Lover
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Old School
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Arthur and the Invisibles
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heartbreak Kid
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ten
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably What Happens in Vegas
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably W.
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Hot Tub Time Machine
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably Cedar Rapids
Lorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together
Notably Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Butter
Jim Rash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Way Way Back
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Pain & Gain
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex Tape
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets Most Wanted
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Layover
William Teitler
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Therapy
Donick Cary
Director
1 film together
Notably Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Kyle Marvin
Director
1 film together
Notably 80 for Brady
Rod Lurie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Senior
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ken Marino
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
How to Be a Latin LoverJosh Gordon
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blades of GloryJim Rash
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 Way Way BackRod Lurie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SeniorDonick Cary
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in PsychedelicsLorene Scafaria
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old SchoolLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Arthur and the InvisiblesJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets Most WantedMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pain & GainKyle Marvin
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
80 for BradyOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
W.Steve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hot Tub Time MachineTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Happens in VegasDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & LarryMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cedar RapidsJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ButterBobby Farrelly
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 Heartbreak KidWilliam H. Macy
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 LayoverJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex TapeDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenWilliam Teitler
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TherapySix 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 Way Way Back
as Kip
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Seides (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 Way Way Back
as Kip
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Old School
as Warren
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Way Way Back
as Kip
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. Rob Corddry 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
23 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
27 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
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Seides (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pain & Gain
as John Mese
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
W.
as Ari Fleischer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arthur and the Invisibles
as Seides (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pain & Gain
as John Mese
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pain & Gain
as John Mese
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
as Warren
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Failure to Launch
as Gun Salesman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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