Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2549
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nat Faxon 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.
Nat Faxon appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nat. Ready or Not 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, animation, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tiffany Ford, Jay Chandrasekhar, Sean Charmatz and others, Nat Faxon 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.
Ready or Not (2019) as Justin (voice) · The Way Way Back (2013) as Roddy · Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) as Jim Hartson (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2549 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Ready or Not
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Comedy
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.3
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
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Slammin' Salmon, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Orange County — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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. The Slammin' Salmon, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Orange County.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 7.01 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.39 films | 5.67 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | — | 5.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Orange County
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kip.
Highest rated performance
2019Ready or Not
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Super Troopers 3
The current state of the argument, as Captain Markowski.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
Directed by Todd Grimes
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Directed by Erik Kling
as Justin (voice)
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Directed by Kevin Peaty
as Jim Hartson (voice)
Directed by Albert Calleros
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
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice) gives Nat Faxon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas (2020)
Performance score7.1
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Justin (voice)
Ready or Not (2019)
Performance score7.1
Ready or Not asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Justin (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween (2019)
Performance score7.1
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (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 Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
Start here. Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama is the clearest statement of what Nat Faxon does — accessible, 37 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nat 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 or Not (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Ready or Not but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween but asks for a colder reading of it.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Kasdan
Director
4 films together
Notably Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Ben Falcone
Director
2 films together
Notably Life of the Party
Kevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Slammin' Salmon
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably Zookeeper
Jim Rash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Way Way Back
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Kevin Peaty
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together
Notably Ready or Not
Erik Kling
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
Todd Grimes
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably YES DAY
Albert Calleros
Director
1 film together
Notably Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Orion and the Dark
Jay Chandrasekhar
Director
1 film together
Notably Super Troopers 3
Tiffany Ford
Director
1 film together
Notably Greetings From Samson
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
4 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryBen Falcone
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Life of the PartyMatt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ready or NotJim Rash
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Way Way BackAlbert Calleros
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the UniverseMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
YES DAYTodd Grimes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-RamaSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Orion and the DarkElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsErik Kling
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain Underpants Mega BlissmasKevin Peaty
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-weenJay Chandrasekhar
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Super Troopers 3Kevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Slammin' SalmonFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZookeeperTiffany Ford
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Greetings From SamsonSix 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
Ready or Not
as Justin (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
Orion and the Dark
as Insomnia (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
Ready or Not
as Justin (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ready or Not
as Justin (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (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. Nat Faxon 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
24 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
19 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
Ready or Not
as Justin (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ready or Not
as Justin (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Orion and the Dark
as Insomnia (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Super Troopers 3
as Captain Markowski
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Charlie's Angels
as Peter Fleming
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Charlie's Angels
as Peter Fleming
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Orion and the Dark
as Insomnia (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Super Troopers 3
as Captain Markowski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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