Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3625
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tom McGrath 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.
Tom McGrath appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tom. The Boss Baby: Family Business is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, comedy, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mike Mitchell, Chris Bailey, Tom McGrath and others, Tom McGrath 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 Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice) · Madagascar (2005) as Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice) · Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3625 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2005–2024
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Most frequent director
Eric Darnell
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Eric Darnell
Most common genre
Family
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Kung Fu Panda 4, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, The Boss Baby: Family Business — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
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
2020s
7.0
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. Monsters vs Aliens, Merry Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | — | 6.82 films | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.74 films | 6.76 films | 7.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Madagascar
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice).
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021The Boss Baby: Family Business
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2024Kung Fu Panda 4
The current state of the argument, as Croc Crime Boss (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.
15 of 15 films
as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice)
Directed by Tom McGrath
as Skipper (voice)
Directed by Eric Darnell
as Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice)
Directed by Eric Darnell
as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Directed by Mike Mitchell
as Lord Scott / Prison Guard (voice)
Directed by Tom McGrath
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
Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice)
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice) gives Tom McGrath a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Skipper (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Performance score7.2
Penguins of Madagascar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skipper (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice)
Madagascar (2005)
Performance score7.0
Madagascar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Performance score6.9
Kung Fu Panda 4 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Croc Crime Boss (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 Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice)
Start here. The Boss Baby: Family Business is the clearest statement of what Tom McGrath does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tom 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.
Madagascar (2005)
Keeps the comedy register of The Boss Baby: Family Business but asks for a colder reading of it.
Megamind (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Madagascar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Megamind but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Penguins of Madagascar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eric Darnell
Director
4 films together
Notably Madagascar
Tom McGrath
Director
3 films together
Notably The Boss Baby: Family Business
Chris Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably Puss in Boots
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Monsters vs Aliens
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Chris Bailey
Director
1 film together
Notably Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda 4
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eric Darnell
Director
4 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MadagascarTom McGrath
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Boss Baby: Family BusinessChris Miller
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
Puss in BootsMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda 4Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Peabody & ShermanChris Bailey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monsters vs AliensSix 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
The Boss Baby: Family Business
as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (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
Merry Madagascar
as Skipper (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
The Boss Baby: Family Business
as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shrek the Third
as Gary (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Boss Baby: Family Business
as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (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. Tom McGrath 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in family, 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 Boss Baby: Family Business
as Dr. Tiffany Hamilton (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Merry Madagascar
as Skipper (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Shrek the Third
as Gary (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Croc Crime Boss (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Monsters vs Aliens
as Wilson (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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