Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#329
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bobby Moynihan 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.
Bobby Moynihan appears in 37 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bobby. Hoppers is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jesse Moynihan, Brian McElhaney, Daniel Chong and others, Bobby Moynihan 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.
Hoppers (2026) as King George (voice) · Inside Out (2015) as Forgetter Bobby (voice) · Inside Out 2 (2024) as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #329 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
37
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Hoppers
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Hoppers
Most frequent director
Daniel Chong
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Daniel Chong
Most common genre
Comedy
33 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Super Gidget — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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 Invention of Lying, Mystery Team.
Most productive era
2010s
18 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 | — | 6.84 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | — | 4.81 film | 5.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 6.315 films | 6.216 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | — | 5.71 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 5.91 film | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Assistant.
Highest rated performance
2015Inside Out
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2026Hoppers
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Phillips (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.
37 of 37 films
as King George (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Panda (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as John
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
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
King George (voice)
Hoppers (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. King George (voice) gives Bobby Moynihan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Panda (voice)
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Performance score7.8
We Bare Bears: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Panda (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
Inside Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Forgetter Bobby (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Performance score7.4
Inside Out 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Forgetter Bobby (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 King George (voice)
Start here. Hoppers is the clearest statement of what Bobby Moynihan does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bobby 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.
Inside Out (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Hoppers but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Book of Henry (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Inside Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Book of Henry — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of We Bare Bears: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chris Renaud
Director
2 films together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Daniel Chong
Director
2 films together
Notably Hoppers
Dan Eckman
Director
1 film together
Notably Mystery Team
Ricky Gervais
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invention of Lying
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably When in Rome
Ramaa Mosley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brass Teapot
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Grown Ups 2
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Adult Beginners
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Annie
Seth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together
Notably Ted 2
Jason Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Sisters
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Inside Out
Taran Killam
Director
1 film together
Notably Killing Gunther
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Henry
Brent Hodge
Director
1 film together
Notably Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
Lena Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Flora & Ulysses
Matt Thompson
Director
1 film together
Notably America: The Motion Picture
Scott Mosier
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More 2
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Clerks III
Christian Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably IF
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Cordially Invited
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Fixed
Pierre Coffin
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & Monsters
Brian McElhaney
Director
1 film together
Notably Pizza Movie
Jesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together
Notably Hungy Ghost
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Daniel Chong
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
HoppersChris Renaud
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2Pete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inside OutColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of HenryScott Mosier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More 2Brent Hodge
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chris Farley: Anything for a LaughJohn Krasinski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IFPierre Coffin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & MonstersBrian McElhaney
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pizza MovieLena Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flora & UlyssesSeth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ted 2Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FixedWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnieDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grown Ups 2Ricky Gervais
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Invention of LyingRamaa Mosley
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 Brass TeapotDan Eckman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mystery TeamKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clerks IIIJason Moore
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SistersNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Cordially InvitedMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When in RomeMatt Thompson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
America: The Motion PictureChristian Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful HeistJerry 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
UnfrostedRoss Katz
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adult BeginnersTaran Killam
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killing GuntherJesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hungy GhostSix 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
Hoppers
as King George (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
Inside Out
as Forgetter Bobby (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
Inside Out
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Grown Ups 2
as Male Cheerleader
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hoppers
as King George (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. Bobby Moynihan 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
33 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
The Book of Henry
as John
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Book of Henry
as John
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Inside Out
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Book of Henry
as John
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Inside Out
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
America: The Motion Picture
as Paul Revere (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Minions & Monsters
as Phillips (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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