Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1458
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andy Daly 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.
Andy Daly appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andy. Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, history, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jerry Seinfeld, Marc Turtletaub, Claire Scanlon and others, Andy Daly 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.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) as Officer Keys (voice) · Jules (2023) as Anchor Aaron Campbell · Big Miracle (2012) as Don Davis
Career snapshot
Ranked #1458 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2004–2024
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Most frequent director
Jim Field Smith
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jim Field Smith
Most common genre
Comedy
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2010s
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Table 19, Butter, Big Miracle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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 Informant!, Post Grad, Semi-Pro.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 5.62 films | 6.32 films | 6.02 films |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 5.86 films | 6.04 films | 6.16 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 5.53 films | 6.62 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Husband.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2024Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
7.7 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. The current state of the argument, as Officer Keys (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.
19 of 19 films
as Officer Keys (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Anchor Aaron Campbell
Directed by Marc Turtletaub
as Don Davis
Directed by Ken Kwapis
as Isaiah Lamb
Directed by Jerry Seinfeld
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
Officer Keys (voice)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Officer Keys (voice) gives Andy Daly a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Anchor Aaron Campbell
Jules (2023)
Performance score7.0
Jules asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anchor Aaron Campbell is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Don Davis
Big Miracle (2012)
Performance score6.6
Big Miracle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Don Davis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Isaiah Lamb
Unfrosted (2024)
Performance score6.5
Unfrosted asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Isaiah Lamb 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 Officer Keys (voice)
Start here. Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation is the clearest statement of what Andy Daly does — accessible, 82 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andy 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.
Big Miracle (2012)
Keeps the adventure register of Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kimi (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Big Miracle — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jules (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Kimi — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Unfrosted (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Jules but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jim Field Smith
Director
2 films together
Notably She's Out of My League
Joe Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas with the Kranks
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably School for Scoundrels
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably What Happens in Vegas
Vicky Jenson
Director
1 film together
Notably Post Grad
Eric Brevig
Director
1 film together
Notably Yogi Bear
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Miracle
Jeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Table 19
Rachel Winter
Director
1 film together
Notably The Space Between
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Sweet Home Alone
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably The People We Hate at the Wedding
Marc Turtletaub
Director
1 film together
Notably Jules
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jim Field Smith
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
She's Out of My LeagueMarc Turtletaub
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JulesKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big MiracleClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The People We Hate at the WeddingMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Dark of the MoonJoe Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas with the KranksTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Happens in VegasJeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Table 19Eric Brevig
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yogi BearTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
School for ScoundrelsJerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnfrostedRachel Winter
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Space BetweenVicky Jenson
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Post GradDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Sweet Home AloneSix 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
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Officer Keys (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
Big Miracle
as Don Davis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Officer Keys (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Mailroom Worker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Officer Keys (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. Andy Daly 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
20 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
16 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
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Officer Keys (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kimi
as Christian Holloway
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Big Miracle
as Don Davis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kimi
as Christian Holloway
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Officer Keys (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Mailroom Worker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Post Grad
as Lloyd Hastings
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The People We Hate at the Wedding
as Bill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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