Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2954
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Thomas Middleditch 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.
Thomas Middleditch appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Thomas. The Wolf of Wall Street 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 science fiction, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joseph Bennett, Dan Povenmire, Michael Dougherty and others, Thomas Middleditch 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 Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie · DC League of Super-Pets (2022) as Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (voice) · Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020) as Garnoz (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2954 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2010–2022
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Wolf of Wall Street
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street
Most frequent director
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Replicas, Tag — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Replicas, Tag.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | 6.75 films | — |
| Action | 6.35 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.83 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.311 films | 6.83 films |
| Crime | 8.31 film | — |
| Horror | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010The Other Guys
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gallery Attendee.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (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.
19 of 19 films
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Garnoz (voice)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
as Rookie Cop
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
as Harold (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
Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stratton Broker in a Bowtie gives Thomas Middleditch a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (voice)
DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Performance score7.1
DC League of Super-Pets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Garnoz (voice)
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
Performance score7.1
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Garnoz (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rookie Cop
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Performance score6.9
The Kings of Summer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rookie Cop 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 Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
Start here. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest statement of what Thomas Middleditch does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Thomas 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.
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of The Kings of Summer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
2 films together
Notably The Kings of Summer
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Guys
Ramaa Mosley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brass Teapot
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Flynn
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Campaign
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
Todd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Final Girls
Robb Cullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time in Venice
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Replicas
Michael Dougherty
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
Joseph Bennett
Director
1 film together
Notably Mitch
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
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
The Kings of SummerMartin Scorsese
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 Wolf of Wall StreetDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the UniverseMichael Dougherty
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: King of the MonstersJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagTodd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Final GirlsAdam McKay
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 Other GuysPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being FlynnRamaa Mosley
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Brass TeapotJeffrey Nachmanoff
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ReplicasJay Roach
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 CampaignRobb Cullen
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time in VeniceJoseph Bennett
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MitchSix 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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
DC League of Super-Pets
as Keith / Ice Guinea Pig (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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Other Guys
as Gallery Attendee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
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. Thomas Middleditch 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
14 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 Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Being Flynn
as Richard
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Once Upon a Time in Venice
as John
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kong: Skull Island
as Jerry (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Broker in a Bowtie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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