Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#911
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charlie Day 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.
Charlie Day appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charlie. Kill Me is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Horvath, Travis Knight, Ethan Coen and others, Charlie Day 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.
Kill Me (2026) as Jimmy · The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Luigi (voice) · The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) as Luigi (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #911 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Kill Me
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Kill Me
Most frequent director
Aaron Horvath
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Aaron Horvath
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.4
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Hotel Artemis, Pacific Rim: Uprising — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Hotel Artemis, Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.23 films | 5.62 films |
| Action | 6.54 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 5.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.510 films | 6.78 films |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 5.51 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dan Grant.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Kill Me
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Wildwood
The current state of the argument, as Seamus (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.
23 of 23 films
as Luigi (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Luigi (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Benny (voice)
Directed by Phil Lord
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
Jimmy
Kill Me (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jimmy gives Charlie Day a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Luigi (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luigi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luigi (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Performance score8.1
The Super Mario Bros. Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luigi (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mike Veeck
The Saint of Second Chances (2023)
Performance score7.3
The Saint of Second Chances asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mike Veeck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Jimmy
Start here. Kill Me is the clearest statement of what Charlie Day does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charlie 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.
The Lego Movie (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Kill Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Lego Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Saint of Second Chances (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Super Mario Bros. Movie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Saint of Second Chances — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Going the Distance
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Bosses
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Pacific Rim
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Vacation
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hollars
Richie Keen
Director
1 film together
Notably Fist Fight
Steven S. DeKnight
Director
1 film together
Notably Pacific Rim: Uprising
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably How It Ends
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably The Saint of Second Chances
Charlie Day
Director
1 film together
Notably Fool's Paradise
Jillian Bell
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer of 69
Ethan Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Honey Don't!
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Wildwood
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MoviePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego MovieGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pacific RimMorgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Saint of Second ChancesMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible BossesJillian Bell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer of 69John Krasinski
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 HollarsJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VacationSteven S. DeKnight
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pacific Rim: UprisingNanette Burstein
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going the DistanceRichie Keen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fist FightEthan Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Honey Don't!Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How It EndsCharlie Day
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fool's ParadiseTravis Knight
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WildwoodSix 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
Kill Me
as Jimmy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Luigi (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
Kill Me
as Jimmy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
How It Ends
as Lonny
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kill Me
as Jimmy
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. Charlie Day 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
18 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
Kill Me
as Jimmy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kill Me
as Jimmy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wildwood
as Seamus (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kill Me
as Jimmy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kill Me
as Jimmy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Dr. Newton Geiszler
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Luigi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pacific Rim
as Dr. Newton Geiszler
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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