Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13146
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Devin Ratray represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Devin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Devin Ratray appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Devin. Home Alone 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 mystery, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dan Mazer, Mika Boorem, Lucia Aniello and others, Devin Ratray 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.
Home Alone (1990) as Buzz · Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) as Buzz · Side Effects (2013) as Banks Patient #3
Career snapshot
Ranked #13146 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1990–2022
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Home Alone
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Home Alone
Most frequent director
Chris Columbus
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Chris Columbus
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
1990s
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Home Alone — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
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. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Home Alone.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.31 film | 6.22 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | 5.82 films | 3.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | 6.61 film | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | 6.31 film | 5.83 films | 4.22 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.22 films | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1990Home Alone
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Buzz. 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
2022Kimi
The current state of the argument, as Kevin.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Buzz
Directed by Chris Columbus
as Buzz
Directed by Chris Columbus
as Banks Patient #3
Directed by Unknown
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
Buzz
Home Alone (1990)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Buzz gives Devin Ratray a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Buzz
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Performance score6.9
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Buzz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Banks Patient #3
Side Effects (2013)
Performance score6.6
Side Effects asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Banks Patient #3 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kevin
Kimi (2022)
Performance score6.5
Kimi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kevin 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 Buzz
Start here. Home Alone is the clearest statement of what Devin Ratray does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Devin 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.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Same director as Home Alone, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Side Effects (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Side Effects — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kimi (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Home Sweet Home Alone — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together
Notably Home Alone
Jonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together
Notably Surrogates
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably R.I.P.D.
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Masterminds
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Mika Boorem
Director
1 film together
Notably Hollywood.Con
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Sweet Home Alone
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Home AloneJonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SurrogatesRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
R.I.P.D.Jared Hess
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MastermindsLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightDan 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 AloneMika Boorem
Director
1 film together · 3.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hollywood.ConSix 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
Home Alone
as Buzz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Buzz
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Home Alone
as Buzz
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Side Effects
as Banks Patient #3
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Home Alone
as Buzz
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. Devin Ratray 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
32 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
8 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
Home Alone
as Buzz
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Side Effects
as Banks Patient #3
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Side Effects
as Banks Patient #3
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kimi
as Kevin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Home Alone
as Buzz
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hollywood.Con
as Andy Slimmick
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Side Effects
as Banks Patient #3
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Buzz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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