Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3337
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Clark Duke 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.
Clark Duke appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clark. The Croods: A New Age is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joel Crawford, Clark Duke, Jon Lucas and others, Clark Duke 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 Croods: A New Age (2020) as Thunk (voice) · Superbad (2007) as Party Teenager · Kick-Ass (2010) as Marty
Career snapshot
Ranked #3337 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2007–2021
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Croods: A New Age
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Croods: A New Age
Most frequent director
Joel Crawford
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joel Crawford
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Sex Drive, Superbad — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
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. Sex Drive, Superbad.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.82 films | 5.81 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | 6.25 films | 7.12 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | 5.81 film |
| Romance | 6.41 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2007Superbad
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Party Teenager. 7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2021Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
The current state of the argument, as Thunk (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 Thunk (voice)
Directed by Joel Crawford
as Party Teenager
Directed by Greg Mottola
as Thunk (voice)
Directed by Kirk DeMicco
as Marty
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
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
Thunk (voice)
The Croods: A New Age (2020)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Thunk (voice) gives Clark Duke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Party Teenager
Superbad (2007)
Performance score7.2
Superbad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Party Teenager is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thunk (voice)
The Croods (2013)
Performance score7.1
The Croods asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thunk (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marty
Kick-Ass (2010)
Performance score7.0
Kick-Ass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marty 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 Thunk (voice)
Start here. The Croods: A New Age is the clearest statement of what Clark Duke does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clark 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.
Superbad (2007)
Keeps the comedy register of The Croods: A New Age but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sex Drive (2008)
Keeps the comedy register of Superbad but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kick-Ass (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Sex Drive — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Croods (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Kick-Ass — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Superbad
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Hot Tub Time Machine
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably A Thousand Words
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Croods
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass 2
Tristram Shapeero
Director
1 film together
Notably A Merry Friggin' Christmas
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Moms
Clark Duke
Director
1 film together
Notably Arkansas
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Croods: A New Age
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Croods: A New AgeGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperbadMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-AssKirk DeMicco
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 CroodsJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad MomsJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-Ass 2Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Thousand WordsSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hot Tub Time MachineClark Duke
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArkansasTristram Shapeero
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Merry Friggin' ChristmasSix 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
Superbad
as Party Teenager
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 Croods: A New Age
as Thunk (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
Superbad
as Party Teenager
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Superbad
as Party Teenager
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Croods: A New Age
as Thunk (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. Clark Duke 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
9 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 Croods: A New Age
as Thunk (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kick-Ass
as Marty
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Croods: A New Age
as Thunk (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arkansas
as Swin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kick-Ass
as Marty
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kick-Ass 2
as Marty / Battle Guy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Croods: A New Age
as Thunk (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Superbad
as Party Teenager
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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