Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3703
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vic Chao 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.
Vic Chao appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vic. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lauren Montgomery, Shannon Tindle, Mike Mitchell and others, Vic Chao 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.
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026) as Hong (voice) · Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) as Additional Voices (voice) · Ready Player One (2018) as Goro
Career snapshot
Ranked #3703 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Most frequent director
Lauren Montgomery
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lauren Montgomery
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.7
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Ultraman: Rising, Kung Fu Panda 4 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 5.71 film | 6.82 films | 7.45 films |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 6.34 films | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hills.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
8.6 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 Hong (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.
12 of 12 films
as Hong (voice)
Directed by Lauren Montgomery
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Francisco Ruiz Velasco
as Goro
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Jin Impersonator / Goon (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as KDF Pilot #3 / Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Shannon Tindle
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
Hong (voice)
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hong (voice) gives Vic Chao a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Performance score7.4
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans 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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Goro
Ready Player One (2018)
Performance score7.4
Ready Player One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Goro is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jin Impersonator / Goon (voice)
Abominable (2019)
Performance score7.3
Abominable asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jin Impersonator / Goon (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 Hong (voice)
Start here. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is the clearest statement of what Vic Chao does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vic 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.
Ready Player One (2018)
Keeps the action register of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender but asks for a colder reading of it.
Abominable (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Ready Player One but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Abominable but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ultraman: Rising (2024)
Keeps the action register of Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Pasquin
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk of Shame
Nima Nourizadeh
Director
1 film together
Notably American Ultra
Christopher Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably Mascots
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Ready Player One
Henrique Jardim
Director
1 film together
Notably Ben Gen 10
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda 4
Shannon Tindle
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultraman: Rising
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avatar Aang: The Last AirbenderFrancisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ready Player OneShannon Tindle
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultraman: RisingMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda 4Henrique Jardim
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ben Gen 10Nima Nourizadeh
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American UltraSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk of ShameJohn 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 FabulousChristopher Guest
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MascotsSix 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
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ready Player One
as Goro
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (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. Vic Chao 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in action, 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
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
as Hong (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Bear Crime Boss / Last Ram / Tavern Patron #2 (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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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