Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19797
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Sean Maher 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.
Sean Maher appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sean. Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Mednikow, Sam Liu, Jay Oliva and others, Sean Maher 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.
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019) as Nightwing (voice) · Serenity (2005) as Simon Tam · Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016) as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #19797 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2005–2019
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Most frequent director
Jay Oliva
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jay Oliva
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
6.6
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
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Serenity — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.4
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. Serenity.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 7.41 film | 7.26 films |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.22 films |
| Crime | — | 7.13 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Serenity
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Simon Tam.
Career peak
2015Batman vs. Robin
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2019Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2019Batman: Hush
The current state of the argument, as Nightwing / Dick Grayson (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.
8 of 8 films
as Nightwing (voice)
Directed by Jeff Mednikow
as Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Simon Tam
Directed by Joss Whedon
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
Nightwing (voice)
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nightwing (voice) gives Sean Maher a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
Batman: Hush (2019)
Performance score7.3
Batman: Hush asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Performance score7.3
Batman vs. Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Performance score7.2
Justice League vs. Teen Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dick Grayson / Nightwing (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 Nightwing (voice)
Start here. Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans is the clearest statement of what Sean Maher does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sean 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.
Serenity (2005)
Keeps the action register of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Keeps the action register of Serenity but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Keeps the action register of Batman vs. Robin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: Hush (2019)
Keeps the action register of Justice League vs. Teen Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joss Whedon
Director
2 films together
Notably Serenity
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman vs. Robin
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Son of Batman
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League vs. Teen Titans
Jeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman vs. RobinJoss Whedon
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SerenityJeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen TitansSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League vs. Teen TitansEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Son of BatmanSix 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
Serenity
as Simon Tam
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
as Nightwing (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
Serenity
as Simon Tam
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
as Nightwing (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
as Nightwing (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. Sean Maher 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 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
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
as Nightwing (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Hush
as Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
as Nightwing (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: Hush
as Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Serenity
as Simon Tam
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman: Bad Blood
as Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Batman vs. Robin
as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Justice League vs. Teen Titans
as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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