Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2895
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sherry Lynn represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Sherry is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Sherry Lynn appears in 32 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sherry. WALL·E is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Pete Docter, Kyle Balda, Chris Renaud and others, Sherry Lynn 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.
WALL·E (2008) as Additional Voices (voice) · Toy Story (1995) as Mom (voice) · Up (2009) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2895 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
32
1989–2028
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
WALL·E
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
WALL·E
Most frequent director
John Lasseter
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With John Lasseter
Most common genre
Animation
31 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.0
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
1980s
7.5 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. The Little Mermaid — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.3
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. The Little Mermaid.
Most productive era
2000s
13 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 | — | 7.33 films | — | 8.11 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 6.51 film | — | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.45 films | 7.09 films | 7.44 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | — | 7.54 films | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | 5.81 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 Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2008WALL·E
8.4 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
2028Tenchi Galaxy
The current state of the argument, as Sasami / Detective Kiyone (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.
32 of 32 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Mom (voice)
Directed by John Lasseter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by Lee Unkrich
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)
WALL·E (2008)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Sherry Lynn a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mom (voice)
Toy Story (1995)
Performance score8.0
Toy Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mom (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)
Up (2009)
Performance score7.9
Up 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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Additional Voices (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
Inside Out 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. WALL·E is the clearest statement of what Sherry Lynn does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sherry 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.
Toy Story (1995)
Keeps the family register of WALL·E but asks for a colder reading of it.
Up (2009)
Keeps the comedy register of Toy Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Up but asks for a colder reading of it.
Inside Out (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Toy Story 3 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Musker
Director
4 films together
Notably Aladdin
John Lasseter
Director
4 films together
Notably Toy Story
Pete Docter
Director
3 films together
Notably Up
Kirk Wise
Director
2 films together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
Andrew Stanton
Director
2 films together
Notably WALL·E
Phil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Jan de Bont
Director
1 film together
Notably The Haunting
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably The Iron Giant
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Robert Walker
Director
1 film together
Notably Brother Bear
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age: The Meltdown
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Lee Unkrich
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 3
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lorax
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Lasseter
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Toy StoryJohn Musker
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AladdinPete Docter
Director
3 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
UpAndrew Stanton
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
WALL·EKirk Wise
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastLee Unkrich
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 3Brad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Iron GiantMark 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 GrooveKevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TarzanRobert Walker
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brother BearCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Age: The MeltdownPhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LoraxBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Osmosis JonesKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MinionsPhil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American Tail: Fievel Goes WestJan de Bont
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HauntingSix 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
WALL·E
as Additional Voices (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
Aladdin
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
Toy Story
as Mom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cars
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
WALL·E
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. Sherry Lynn 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
39 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
31 catalogue titles in animation, 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
WALL·E
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
WALL·E
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Brother Bear
as Additional Voice (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Haunting
as Child (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Finding Nemo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Osmosis Jones
as Trudy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hercules
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story
as Mom (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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