Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#30654
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Alex D. Linz 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.
Alex D. Linz appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alex. Tarzan is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 horror, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brett Ratner, Gary Goldman, Don Roos and others, Alex D. Linz 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.
Tarzan (1999) as Young Tarzan (voice) · Red Dragon (2002) as Young Dolarhyde (voice) · Titan A.E. (2000) as Young Cale (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #30654 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1996–2002
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Tarzan
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Tarzan
Most frequent director
Brett Ratner
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brett Ratner
Most common genre
Family
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Red Dragon, Titan A.E., Bounce — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Tarzan, Home Alone 3, The Cable Guy.
Most productive era
1990s
4 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 | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.01 film | 5.81 film |
| Action | — | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.03 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.11 film |
| Romance | 6.51 film | 5.81 film |
| Horror | — | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996The Cable Guy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tony (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999Tarzan
7.5 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
2002Red Dragon
The current state of the argument, as Young Dolarhyde (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.
7 of 7 films
as Young Tarzan (voice)
Directed by Kevin Lima
as Young Dolarhyde (voice)
Directed by Brett Ratner
as Sammy Parker, Melanie's son
Directed by Michael Hoffman
as Young Cale (voice)
Directed by Gary Goldman
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
Young Tarzan (voice)
Tarzan (1999)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Young Tarzan (voice) gives Alex D. Linz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Dolarhyde (voice)
Red Dragon (2002)
Performance score7.0
Red Dragon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Dolarhyde (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sammy Parker, Melanie's son
One Fine Day (1996)
Performance score6.7
One Fine Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sammy Parker, Melanie's son is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Cale (voice)
Titan A.E. (2000)
Performance score6.6
Titan A.E. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Cale (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 Young Tarzan (voice)
Start here. Tarzan is the clearest statement of what Alex D. Linz does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alex 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.
One Fine Day (1996)
A deliberate change of key after Tarzan — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Titan A.E. (2000)
A deliberate change of key after One Fine Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bounce (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Titan A.E. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Red Dragon (2002)
A deliberate change of key after Bounce — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably One Fine Day
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cable Guy
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Alone 3
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan
Don Roos
Director
1 film together
Notably Bounce
Gary Goldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Titan A.E.
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dragon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TarzanBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DragonGary Goldman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Titan A.E.Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Fine DayBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cable GuyDon Roos
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BounceRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Alone 3Six 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
Red Dragon
as Young Dolarhyde (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
Tarzan
as Young Tarzan (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
Tarzan
as Young Tarzan (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Cable Guy
as Tony (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tarzan
as Young Tarzan (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. Alex D. Linz 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
3 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
Tarzan
as Young Tarzan (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Red Dragon
as Young Dolarhyde (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bounce
as Scott Janello
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Dragon
as Young Dolarhyde (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tarzan
as Young Tarzan (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Titan A.E.
as Young Cale (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Cable Guy
as Tony (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Home Alone 3
as Alex Pruitt
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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