Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2720
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sumire Uesaka 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.
Sumire Uesaka appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sumire. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 music, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kozo Kaiho, Akitaro Daichi, Ken Yamamoto and others, Sumire Uesaka 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.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Love Comedy Roboco (voice) · Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024) as Agnes Tachyon (voice) · VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025) as Vespa (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2720 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Kunihiko Ikuhara
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kunihiko Ikuhara
Most common genre
Animation
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.4
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
6.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary LIVE「In the name of BanG Dream!」, TJPW Grand Princess '26, Patlabor EZY: File 1 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.2
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.2
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. Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars, Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2, BanG Dream! FILM LIVE.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | — | 7.36 films |
| Action | 6.23 films | 5.95 films |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 7.110 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lisa (voice).
Career peak
2024Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Towa Kuga (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.
21 of 21 films
as Agnes Tachyon (voice)
Directed by Ken Yamamoto
as Love Comedy Roboco (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Shalltear Bloodfallen (voice)
Directed by Minoru Ashina
as Sanae Dekomori (voice)
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
as Vespa (voice)
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
Agnes Tachyon (voice)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era (2024)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Agnes Tachyon (voice) gives Sumire Uesaka a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Love Comedy Roboco (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.6
Me & Roboco: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Love Comedy Roboco (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shalltear Bloodfallen (voice)
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Performance score7.9
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shalltear Bloodfallen (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sanae Dekomori (voice)
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Performance score7.8
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sanae Dekomori (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Agnes Tachyon (voice)
Start here. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era is the clearest statement of what Sumire Uesaka does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sumire 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.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era but asks for a colder reading of it.
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World but asks for a colder reading of it.
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together
Notably BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage
Kunihiko Ikuhara
Director
2 films together
Notably RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
Junji Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably Mazinger Z: Infinity
Tatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2
Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together
Notably Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
Takaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2
Shinya Watada
Director
1 film together
Notably Hula Fulla Dance
Kohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together
Notably BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Minoru Ashina
Director
1 film together
Notably Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another World
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together
Notably Oomuro-ke: Dear Sisters
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Ken Yamamoto
Director
1 film together
Notably Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Kozo Kaiho
Director
1 film together
Notably Patlabor EZY: File 1
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kunihiko Ikuhara
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
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival TacticTomomi Umetsu
Director
2 films together · 4.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd StageAkitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieKen Yamamoto
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New EraTatsuya Ishihara
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On MeMinoru Ashina
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isekai Quartet the Movie: Another WorldTakaharu Ozaki
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's CrownMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMJunji Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mazinger Z: InfinityShinya Watada
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hula Fulla DanceNaoyuki Tatsuwa
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oomuro-ke: Dear SistersKohdai Kakimoto
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seitokai Yakuindomo the Movie 2Yuta Tanaka
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of StarsKozo Kaiho
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Patlabor EZY: File 1Six 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Agnes Tachyon (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
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Yuni / Cure Cosmo (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
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Love Comedy Roboco (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
TJPW Grand Princess '26
as Sumire Uesaka
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Agnes Tachyon (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. Sumire Uesaka 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
19 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
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Agnes Tachyon (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Love Comedy Roboco (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Star☆Twinkle PreCure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars
as Yuni / Cure Cosmo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
RE:cycle of the PENGUINDRUM Part 1: Your Train Is the Survival Tactic
as Purin-Chu-Penguin (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl
as Vespa (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown
as Noble Fencer (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era
as Agnes Tachyon (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mazinger Z: Infinity
as Lisa (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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