Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11606
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gregg Turkington 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.
Gregg Turkington appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gregg. The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special 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 horror, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Notarnicola, Peyton Reed, David Wain, Gregg Turkington 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.
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special (2026) as Gregg Turkington · Ant-Man (2015) as Dale · Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006) as Neil Hamburger
Career snapshot
Ranked #11606 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
Most frequent director
Peyton Reed
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Peyton Reed
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Ant-Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
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. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.51 film | 5.31 film |
| Action | — | 7.31 film | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.51 film | 7.72 films |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Neil Hamburger.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
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. The current state of the argument, as Gregg Turkington.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Gregg Turkington
Directed by Eric Notarnicola
as Dale
Directed by Peyton Reed
as Neil Hamburger
Directed by Unknown
as 911 Operator / Dispatch (voice)
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
Gregg Turkington
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gregg Turkington gives Gregg Turkington a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dale
Ant-Man (2015)
Performance score7.2
Ant-Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dale is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Neil Hamburger
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Performance score6.7
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Neil Hamburger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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911 Operator / Dispatch (voice)
Static Windows (2026)
Performance score6.5
Static Windows asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 911 Operator / Dispatch (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 Gregg Turkington
Start here. The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special is the clearest statement of what Gregg Turkington does — accessible, 188 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gregg 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.
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Keeps the comedy register of The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ant-Man (2015)
Keeps the adventure register of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Ant-Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Static Windows (2026)
Same director as Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peyton Reed
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
Ant-ManEric Notarnicola
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar SpecialDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Futile and Stupid GestureSix 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
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Neil Hamburger
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
as Advertiser
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
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. Gregg Turkington 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
4 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 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Neil Hamburger
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Neil Hamburger
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
as Gregg Turkington
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ant-Man
as Dale
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Neil Hamburger
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ant-Man
as Dale
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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