Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3315
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Will Friedle 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.
Will Friedle appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Will. My Little Pony: A New Generation is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Wamester, Ken Cunningham, Katie Rice and others, Will Friedle 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.
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice) · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024) as Batman Beyond / Kamandi (voice) · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two (2024) as Batman Beyond / Kamandi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3315 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2003–2024
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
My Little Pony: A New Generation
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
My Little Pony: A New Generation
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Animation
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 14m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three, LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.
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 | 6.61 film | 6.61 film | 6.54 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.61 film | 6.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ron Stoppable (voice).
Highest rated performance
2021My Little Pony: A New Generation
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2024LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
The current state of the argument, as Batman Beyond / Kamandi (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.
8 of 8 films
as Dennis / Demolition Man (voice)
Directed by Ken Cunningham
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
Directed by José Luis Ucha
as Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Ron Stoppable (voice)
Directed by Steve Loter
as Batman Beyond / Kamandi (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
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
Dennis / Demolition Man (voice)
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition (2024)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dennis / Demolition Man (voice) gives Will Friedle a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)
Performance score7.1
My Little Pony: A New Generation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice)
LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters (2019)
Performance score7.0
LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dick Grayson / Nightwing (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ron Stoppable (voice)
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003)
Performance score7.0
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ron Stoppable (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 Dennis / Demolition Man (voice)
Start here. LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition is the clearest statement of what Will Friedle does — accessible, 45 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Will 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.
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003)
Keeps the science fiction register of LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition but asks for a colder reading of it.
LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters (2019)
Keeps the action register of Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Keeps the animation register of My Little Pony: A New Generation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ken Cunningham
Director
2 films together
Notably LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
Jeff Wamester
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters
José Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: A New Generation
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
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
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part ThreeKen Cunningham
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission DemolitionJosé Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: A New GenerationMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO DC Batman: Family MattersSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kim Possible: A Sitch in TimeKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseSix 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
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (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
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (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
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
as Dennis / Demolition Man (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. Will Friedle 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
8 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
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
as Batman Beyond / Kamandi (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
as Ron Stoppable (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
as Ron Stoppable (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Little Pony: A New Generation
as Skye Silver / Glitter Cupcake / Comet Tail (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
as Lex Luthor / Aquaman (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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