Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3026
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Seth Meyers 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.
Seth Meyers appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Seth. Will & Harper 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, comedy, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Morgan Neville, Brent Hodge, Josh Greenbaum and others, Seth Meyers 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.
Will & Harper (2024) as Self · Lorne (2026) as Self · Bros (2022) as Harvey Milk (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3026 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Will & Harper
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Will & Harper
Most frequent director
Morgan Neville
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Morgan Neville
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.2
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
5.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Late Night, The Interview, New Year's Eve — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.9
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. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, American Dreamz.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.11 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Action | 6.11 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.93 films | 5.94 films | 4.05 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 5.62 films | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006American Dreamz
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chet Krogl.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Will & Harper
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
2026Lorne
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Self
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
as Harvey Milk (uncredited)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
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
Self
Will & Harper (2024)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Seth Meyers a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
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.
View movie#3
Harvey Milk (uncredited)
Bros (2022)
Performance score6.6
Bros asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvey Milk (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Self
Downey Wrote That (2025)
Performance score6.5
Downey Wrote That 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 Self
Start here. Will & Harper is the clearest statement of what Seth Meyers does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Seth 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.
Bros (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Will & Harper but asks for a colder reading of it.
Late Night Nightmare (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Bros but asks for a colder reading of it.
Downey Wrote That (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Late Night Nightmare but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lorne (2026)
Keeps the documentary register of Downey Wrote That but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Dreamz
Peter Sollett
Director
1 film together
Notably Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Eric Brevig
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey to the Center of the Earth
Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably I Don't Know How She Does It
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably New Year's Eve
Evan Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Interview
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably Late Night
Jay Karas
Director
1 film together
Notably Feeding America Comedy Festival
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Bros
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Will & Harper
Brent Hodge
Director
1 film together
Notably Downey Wrote That
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Josh 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
LorneNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrosNisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Late NightPeter Sollett
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nick and Norah's Infinite PlaylistEvan Goldberg
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 InterviewEric Brevig
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey to the Center of the EarthGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New Year's EveJay Karas
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Feeding America Comedy FestivalDouglas McGrath
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Don't Know How She Does ItPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American DreamzBrent Hodge
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Downey Wrote ThatSix 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
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
as Drunk Guy in Yugo
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Will & Harper
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bros
as Harvey Milk (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Will & Harper
as Self
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. Seth Meyers 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
12 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
Will & Harper
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Will & Harper
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
as Drunk Guy in Yugo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Will & Harper
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Will & Harper
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Professor Alan Kitzens
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
as Drunk Guy in Yugo
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
I Don't Know How She Does It
as Chris Bunce
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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