Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17273
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Roger Rose 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.
Roger Rose appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roger. Justice League: War is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ethan Spaulding, Jay Oliva, George Miller, Roger Rose 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.
Justice League: War (2014) as Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice) · Happy Feet (2006) as Leopard Seal (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #17273 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
1998–2019
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Justice League: War
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Justice League: War
Most frequent director
George Miller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With George Miller
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.5
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. Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, Justice League: War — 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
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Babe: Pig in the City.
Most productive era
2010s
2 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.71 film | — | — |
| Action | — | — | 7.41 film |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 6.41 film | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Character Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 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
2019Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
The current state of the argument, as Lead Cat Person / 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.
4 of 4 films
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Leopard Seal (voice)
Directed by George Miller
as Additional Character Voices (voice)
Directed by George Miller
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
Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
Justice League: War (2014)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice) gives Roger Rose a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019)
Performance score6.9
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Leopard Seal (voice)
Happy Feet (2006)
Performance score6.5
Happy Feet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leopard Seal (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 Character Voices (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Performance score6.5
Babe: Pig in the City asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Character 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 Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
Start here. Justice League: War is the clearest statement of what Roger Rose does — accessible, 79 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roger 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.
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Justice League: War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Happy Feet (2006)
Same director as Babe: Pig in the City, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Happy Feet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Miller
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Happy FeetJay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: WarEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie IslandSix 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
Justice League: War
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (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
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (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
Justice League: War
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babe: Pig in the City
as Additional Character Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Justice League: War
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (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. Roger Rose 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
21 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
3 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
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
as Lead Cat Person / Narrator (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League: War
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: War
as Pinstriped Loudmouth (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Babe: Pig in the City
as Additional Character Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Happy Feet
as Leopard Seal (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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