Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2822
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Zach Cherry 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.
Zach Cherry appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Zach. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, family, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Appel, Tim Story, Zach Cregger and others, Zach Cherry 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: Homecoming (2017) as Street Vendor · Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) as Klev · Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) as Will
Career snapshot
Ranked #2822 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Most frequent director
Eric Appel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eric Appel
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.1
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Unsane, Irreplaceable You, Spider-Man: Homecoming — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Unsane, Irreplaceable You, Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 7.01 film | 3.12 films |
| Action | 7.61 film | 7.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 5.66 films |
| Crime | — | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.82 films |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 3.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Street Vendor. 7.6 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.
Most recent film
2026Resident Evil
The current state of the argument, as Dave.
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 Street Vendor
Directed by Jon Watts
as Klev
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
as Jim
Directed by Stephanie Laing
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
Street Vendor
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Street Vendor gives Zach Cherry a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Will
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
Performance score7.3
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Will is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Klev
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Performance score7.3
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Klev is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barry
72 HOURS (2026)
Performance score7.1
72 HOURS asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barry 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 Street Vendor
Start here. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest statement of what Zach Cherry does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Zach 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.
Irreplaceable You (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Homecoming — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Irreplaceable You — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
72 HOURS (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Stephanie Laing
Director
1 film together
Notably Irreplaceable You
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Nicole Holofcener
Director
1 film together
Notably You Hurt My Feelings
Patrick Willems
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dinner Plan
Zach Cregger
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably 72 HOURS
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Breadwinner
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingDestin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsStephanie Laing
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irreplaceable YouEric Appel
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BreadwinnerTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
72 HOURSNicole Holofcener
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Hurt My FeelingsZach Cregger
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident EvilPatrick Willems
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dinner PlanSix 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: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
You Hurt My Feelings
as Jim
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: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
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. Zach Cherry 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
7 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
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Klev
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You Hurt My Feelings
as Jim
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Klev
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Klev
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Irreplaceable You
as Jim
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Street Vendor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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