Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#753
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rob Riggle 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 Riggle appears in 39 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rob. Midnight Sun is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Leone, Josh Greenbaum, Jeff Wadlow and others, Rob Riggle 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.
Midnight Sun (2018) as Jack Price · The Hangover (2009) as Officer Franklin · Status Update (2018) as Darryl Moore
Career snapshot
Ranked #753 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
39
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Midnight Sun
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Midnight Sun
Most frequent director
Adam McKay
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Adam McKay
Most common genre
Comedy
34 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Hangover, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Step Brothers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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 Hangover, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Step Brothers.
Most productive era
2010s
26 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 | — | 6.66 films | 3.52 films |
| Action | — | 6.46 films | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.222 films | 5.98 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | 5.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.47 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jack Telmont.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Midnight Sun
7.8 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
2026Jimmy
The current state of the argument, as U.S. Army Colonel Terrill.
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.
39 of 39 films
as Jack Price
Directed by Scott Speer
as Officer Franklin
Directed by Todd Phillips
as Dr. Serano
Directed by Christopher Leone
as Darryl Moore
Directed by Scott Speer
as Rolf (voice)
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Jack Price
Midnight Sun (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jack Price gives Rob Riggle a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Officer Franklin
The Hangover (2009)
Performance score7.4
The Hangover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Franklin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Serano
Code 3 (2025)
Performance score7.2
Code 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Serano is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Darryl Moore
Status Update (2018)
Performance score7.2
Status Update asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Darryl Moore 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 Jack Price
Start here. Midnight Sun is the clearest statement of what Rob Riggle does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.8 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.
The Hangover (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Midnight Sun — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Status Update (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of The Hangover but asks for a colder reading of it.
Strays (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Status Update but asks for a colder reading of it.
Code 3 (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Strays but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Adam McKay
Director
3 films together
Notably Step Brothers
Phil Lord
Director
2 films together
Notably 21 Jump Street
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
Scott Speer
Director
2 films together
Notably Midnight Sun
Jeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together
Notably The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Neal Brennan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hangover
Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Going the Distance
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Killers
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Furry Vengeance
Tom Hanks
Director
1 film together
Notably Larry Crowne
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Miracle
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lorax
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Internship
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb and Dumber To
Ross Shuman
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell and Back
Courteney Cox
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Before I Go
Terry Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Anything
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Be a Latin Lover
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Night School
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The War with Grandpa
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Strays
Christopher Leone
Director
1 film together
Notably Code 3
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Adam McKay
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Step BrothersScott Speer
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Midnight SunGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaPhil Lord
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
21 Jump StreetJeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Curse of Bridge HollowTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HangoverJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StraysChristopher Leone
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Code 3Ken Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Be a Latin LoverKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big MiracleChris Renaud
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 LoraxTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The War with GrandpaCourteney Cox
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just Before I GoShawn Levy
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 InternshipMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night SchoolNanette Burstein
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going the DistanceKirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2Tom Hanks
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Larry CrowneRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KillersTerry Jones
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely AnythingBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb and Dumber ToNeal Brennan
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 Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardRoss Shuman
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell and BackRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furry VengeanceSix 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
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
22 Jump Street
as Mr. Walters (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
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 Riggle 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
20 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
34 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
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
21 Jump Street
as Mr. Walters
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Midnight Sun
as Jack Price
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Big Miracle
as Dean Glowacki
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Code 3
as Dr. Serano
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
22 Jump Street
as Mr. Walters (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Just Before I Go
as Rawly Stansfield
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Hangover
as Officer Franklin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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