Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11676
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Stephen Apostolina 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.
Stephen Apostolina appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stephen. Incredibles 2 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Bailey, Chris Buck, Thurop Van Orman and others, Stephen Apostolina 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.
Incredibles 2 (2018) as Additional Voices (voice) · Frozen (2013) as Additional Voices (voice) · Feast (2014) as Additional Characters (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11676 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2005–2022
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Incredibles 2
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Feast
Most frequent director
Chris Buck
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Chris Buck
Most common genre
Family
12 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
6.9
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
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Madagascar — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Madagascar.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | — | 7.41 film | 6.13 films |
| Action | — | 7.32 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 4.51 film |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.97 films | 6.61 film |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film | 6.92 films |
| Horror | — | — | 4.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Madagascar
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Police Officer (voice).
Highest rated performance
2013Frozen
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2014Feast
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2022Immanence
The current state of the argument, as Helicopter Pilot.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Additional Characters (voice)
Directed by Patrick Osborne
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Thurop Van Orman
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 Characters (voice)
Feast (2014)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Characters (voice) gives Stephen Apostolina a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Incredibles 2 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)
Frozen (2013)
Performance score7.3
Frozen 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)
Frozen II (2019)
Performance score7.1
Frozen II 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 Characters (voice)
Start here. Feast is the clearest statement of what Stephen Apostolina does — accessible, 6 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stephen 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.
Frozen (2013)
Keeps the family register of Feast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Frozen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frozen II (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Incredibles 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Frozen II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eric Darnell
Director
2 films together
Notably Madagascar
Chris Buck
Director
2 films together
Notably Frozen
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Patrick Osborne
Director
1 film together
Notably Feast
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 2
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Ross Venokur
Director
1 film together
Notably Charming
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Chris Bailey
Director
1 film together
Notably Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Buck
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
FrozenEric Darnell
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MadagascarBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Patrick Osborne
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FeastThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 2Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Peabody & ShermanChris Bailey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicRoss Venokur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CharmingSix 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
Incredibles 2
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
Frozen
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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Feast
as Additional Characters (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. Stephen Apostolina 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in family, 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
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
After Ever Happy
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charming
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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