Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2351
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Yuri Lowenthal 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.
Yuri Lowenthal appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yuri. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jacob Sluka, Brandon Vietti, Joaquim Dos Santos and others, Yuri Lowenthal 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.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice) · Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013) as The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice) · Big Hero 6 (2014) as Additional Voice (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2351 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Richard Rich
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Richard Rich
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
2010s
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, Incredibles 2, Smurfs: The Lost Village — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | — | 7.32 films |
| Action | 7.12 films | 7.57 films | 7.16 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.22 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Scarface / Japanese Biker (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8.5 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
2026Afternoon Super
The current state of the argument, as Billy/KT.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Additional Voice (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Kobra (voice)
Directed by Rick Morales
as Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
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
Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Insomniac Spider-Man (voice) gives Yuri Lowenthal a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voice (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score7.8
Big Hero 6 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voice (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
Performance score7.8
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kobra (voice)
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (2022)
Performance score7.7
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kobra (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 Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Yuri Lowenthal does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yuri 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.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
Same director as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Keeps the action register of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (2022)
Keeps the action register of Big Hero 6 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Oliva
Director
3 films together
Notably Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Richard Rich
Director
3 films together
Notably The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
Sam Liu
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Henrique Jardim
Director
2 films together
Notably Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
Brandon Vietti
Director
2 films together
Notably Watchmen: Chapter I
Heather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Fuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together
Notably Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs: The Lost Village
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Injustice
Rick Morales
Director
1 film together
Notably Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind
Jeff Wamester
Director
1 film together
Notably Legion of Super-Heroes
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Jacob Sluka
Director
1 film together
Notably Afternoon Super
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Oliva
Director
3 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman: The Dark Knight ReturnsRichard Rich
Director
3 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Swan Princess: A Royal WeddingBrandon Vietti
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Watchmen: Chapter ISam Liu
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: Gods and MonstersHenrique Jardim
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The MovieJoaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseChris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6Rick Morales
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow BlindBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Matt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InjusticeHeather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans: Trouble in TokyoFuminori Kizaki
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Afro Samurai: ResurrectionJeff Wamester
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legion of Super-HeroesKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smurfs: The Lost VillageJacob Sluka
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Afternoon SuperSix 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
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Insomniac Spider-Man (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 Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
as Prince Derek (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
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Insomniac Spider-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. Yuri Lowenthal 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
20 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
22 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
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as The Son of Batman / Rookie Police Officer (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding
as Prince Derek (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Watchmen: Chapter II
as Seymour / Knot Top #2 / Bully #1 (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Big Hero 6
as Additional Voice (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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