Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8374
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
America Young 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.
America Young appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without America. Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. 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 Karen J. Lloyd, Ron Myrick, Conrad Helten and others, America Young 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.
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams (2021) as Malibu (Barbie) (voice) · Barbie: Princess Adventure (2020) as Barbie (voice) · Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025) as Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8374 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Barbie: Princess Adventure
Most frequent director
Conrad Helten
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Conrad Helten
Most common genre
Family
7 titles
Average runtime
0h 56m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Tinker Bell — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Tinker Bell.
Most productive era
2020s
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 2.01 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Tinker Bell
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wendy (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Barbie: Princess Adventure
7.0 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
2025Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship
The current state of the argument, as Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts (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.
8 of 8 films
as Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Barbie (voice)
Directed by Conrad Helten
as Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts (voice)
Directed by Karen J. Lloyd
as Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
Directed by Ron Myrick
as Barbie (Malibu) (voice)
Directed by Conrad Helten
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
Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Malibu (Barbie) (voice) gives America Young a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Barbie (voice)
Barbie: Princess Adventure (2020)
Performance score7.6
Barbie: Princess Adventure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barbie (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts (voice)
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025)
Performance score7.3
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
Barbie: Mermaid Power (2022)
Performance score7.3
Barbie: Mermaid Power asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Malibu (Barbie) (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 Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
Start here. Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams is the clearest statement of what America Young does — accessible, 62 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet America 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.
Barbie: Princess Adventure (2020)
Keeps the music register of Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barbie: Mermaid Power (2022)
Keeps the family register of Barbie: Princess Adventure but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barbie: Epic Road Trip (2022)
Keeps the family register of Barbie: Mermaid Power but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Barbie: Epic Road Trip but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Conrad Helten
Director
2 films together
Notably Barbie: Princess Adventure
Bradley Raymond
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinker Bell
Taryn O'Neill
Director
1 film together
Notably Live
Ron Myrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie: Mermaid Power
Karen J. Lloyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Conrad Helten
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Barbie: Princess AdventureKaren J. Lloyd
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for FriendshipBradley Raymond
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinker BellRon Myrick
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barbie: Mermaid PowerTaryn O'Neill
Director
1 film together · 2.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LiveSix 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
Barbie: Princess Adventure
as Barbie (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
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
as Malibu (Barbie) (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
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
as Malibu (Barbie) (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. America Young 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
7 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
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
as Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
as Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tinker Bell
as Wendy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Barbie: Princess Adventure
as Barbie (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams
as Malibu (Barbie) (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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