Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3830
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Robert Clotworthy represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Robert is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Robert Clotworthy appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. 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 action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Elizabeth Banks, Brad Bird, Clint Eastwood and others, Robert Clotworthy 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 Iron Giant (1999) as Additional Voices (voice) · Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) as Fury Car Voice (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1987–2021
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Mulan
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Iron Giant
Most frequent director
Brad Bird
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Brad Bird
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.8
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
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Iron Giant, Mulan — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Who's That Girl.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.91 film | 6.13 films | — | — |
| Action | — | — | — | 6.95 films | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.62 films | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | — | 7.71 film | 6.02 films | 6.71 film |
| Crime | — | — | — | 5.61 film | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | — | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1987Who's That Girl
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lawyer.
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
2021Red Notice
The current state of the argument, as Opening Narrator (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.
14 of 14 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tony Bancroft
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
as Fury Car Voice (voice)
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Mark Dindal
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
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 Robert Clotworthy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Performance score7.7
The Iron Giant 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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Fury Car Voice (voice)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Performance score7.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fury Car Voice (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)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Performance score7.5
The Emperor's New Groove 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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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 Robert Clotworthy 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 Robert 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 Iron Giant (1999)
Keeps the family register of Mulan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Keeps the family register of The Iron Giant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Keeps the adventure register of The Emperor's New Groove but asks for a colder reading of it.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Keeps the action register of Captain America: The Winter Soldier but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brad Bird
Director
2 films together
Notably The Iron Giant
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Who's That Girl
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Mark Romanek
Director
1 film together
Notably One Hour Photo
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Rendition
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Buried
Michel Gondry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Green Hornet
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably American Sniper
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brad Bird
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Iron GiantTony 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
MulanAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: The Winter SoldierMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Emperor's New GrooveClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American SniperMark Romanek
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Hour PhotoRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BuriedElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RenditionJames Foley
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Who's That GirlMichel Gondry
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Green HornetSix 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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Fury Car Voice (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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Fury Car Voice (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. Robert Clotworthy 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
34 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in action, 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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Fury Car Voice (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pulse
as Calvin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Fury Car Voice (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Charlie's Angels
as Charlie (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Emperor's New Groove
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Who's That Girl
as Lawyer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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