Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12950
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Susan Leslie 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.
Susan Leslie appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Susan. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Horvath, Anthony Russo, Matt Danner and others, Susan Leslie 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.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Additional Voices (voice) · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025) as Additional Voices (voice) · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12950 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Most frequent director
Aaron Horvath
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Aaron Horvath
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.5
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Electric State, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. The Family Stone, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.31 film | — |
| Action | 5.71 film | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 7.14 films |
| Romance | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005The Family Stone
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Voice Actor (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
8.3 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. The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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.
7 of 7 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Matt Danner
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Luke Cormican
as Mrs. Scissors (voice)
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Swinton O. Scott III
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)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Susan Leslie a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025)
Performance score6.7
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw 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)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
Performance score6.7
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 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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Mrs. Scissors (voice)
The Electric State (2025)
Performance score6.5
The Electric State asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Scissors (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. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest statement of what Susan Leslie does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Susan 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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Diary of a Wimpy Kid but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Electric State (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Pasquin
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Thomas Bezucha
Director
1 film together
Notably The Family Stone
Swinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Matt Danner
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electric State
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MovieMatt Danner
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last StrawLuke Cormican
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick RulesAnthony Russo
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 Electric StateSwinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy KidThomas Bezucha
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Family StoneJohn Pasquin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and FabulousSix 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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as Reporter #2A
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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. Susan Leslie 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
21 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
6 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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Electric State
as Mrs. Scissors (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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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