Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18877
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Sarah Sherman 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.
Sarah Sherman appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sarah. Nimona is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 family, animation, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian McElhaney, Morgan Neville, Beth McCarthy-Miller and others, Sarah Sherman 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.
Nimona (2023) as Coriander Cadaverish (voice) · Will & Harper (2024) as Self (uncredited) · Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) as Kris' Agent
Career snapshot
Ranked #18877 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2018–2027
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Nimona
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Nimona
Most frequent director
Brian McElhaney
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brian McElhaney
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
6.1
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
5.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. CoComelon: The Movie, Pizza Movie, Lorne — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.5
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.5
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. The Uncle No Rules Show.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | — | 6.51 film |
| Action | — | 7.61 film |
| Comedy | — | 5.78 films |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film |
| Horror | — | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sarah Slime.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Nimona
7.6 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 (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.
12 of 12 films
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Directed by Troy Quane
as Self (uncredited)
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
as Kris' Agent
Directed by Unknown
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
Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Nimona (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Coriander Cadaverish (voice) gives Sarah Sherman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (uncredited)
Will & Harper (2024)
Performance score7.2
Will & Harper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kris' Agent
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
Performance score7.1
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kris' Agent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Lorne (2026)
Performance score6.7
Lorne asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Start here. Nimona is the clearest statement of what Sarah Sherman does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sarah 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.
Will & Harper (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Nimona — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Will & Harper but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lorne (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Roommates (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Lorne — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sammi Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Troy Quane
Director
1 film together
Notably Nimona
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Will & Harper
Jack Bensinger
Director
1 film together
Notably Straight Line
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Brian McElhaney
Director
1 film together
Notably Pizza Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Troy Quane
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NimonaJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Will & HarperMorgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LorneBrian McElhaney
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pizza MovieSammi Cohen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat MitzvahBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertJack Bensinger
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Straight LineSix 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
Will & Harper
as Self (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (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
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (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. Sarah Sherman 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pizza Movie
as Frankie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nimona
as Coriander Cadaverish (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
as Self / Sarah Squirm
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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