Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#979
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hynden Walch represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Hynden is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Hynden Walch appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hynden. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Katie Rice, Peter Rida Michail and others, Hynden Walch 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.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) as Harley Quinn (voice) · Tangled (2010) as Additional Voices (voice) · Groundhog Day (1993) as Debbie (as Hynden Walsh)
Career snapshot
Ranked #979 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1993–2026
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Most frequent director
Ethan Spaulding
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ethan Spaulding
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.8
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, Batman: Hush, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Jerry Maguire, Groundhog Day.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Action | — | 7.31 film | 7.46 films | 6.92 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 7.42 films | 6.51 film | 7.44 films | 6.53 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Romance | 7.42 films | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1993Groundhog Day
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Debbie (as Hynden Walsh).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
7.9 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
2026Toy Story 5
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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.
18 of 18 films
as Harley Quinn (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Starfire (voice)
Directed by Jeff Mednikow
as Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Debbie (as Hynden Walsh)
Directed by Harold Ramis
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
Harley Quinn (voice)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Harley Quinn (voice) gives Hynden Walch a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Starfire (voice)
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Performance score7.6
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Starfire (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voice)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Performance score7.6
Batman: Assault on Arkham asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Tangled (2010)
Performance score7.6
Tangled asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (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 Harley Quinn (voice)
Start here. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest statement of what Hynden Walch does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hynden 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.
Groundhog Day (1993)
Keeps the fantasy register of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tangled (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Groundhog Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Keeps the animation register of Tangled but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Keeps the action register of Batman: Assault on Arkham but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Heather A. Maxwell
Director
2 films together
Notably Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Ethan Spaulding
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman: Assault on Arkham
Harold Ramis
Director
1 film together
Notably Groundhog Day
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Jerry Maguire
Jeff McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Tangled
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Jeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Peter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: The Flashpoint ParadoxHeather A. Maxwell
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Big Top Scooby-Doo!Ethan Spaulding
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
Batman: Assault on ArkhamMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League Dark: Apokolips WarByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TangledHarold Ramis
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Groundhog DayJeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen TitansAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 5Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! To the MoviesCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jerry MaguireJeff McGrath
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild Thornberrys MoviePeter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! See Space JamKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseSix 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
Groundhog Day
as Debbie (as Hynden Walsh)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tangled
as Additional Voices (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
Groundhog Day
as Debbie (as Hynden Walsh)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Toy Story 5
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Harley Quinn (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. Hynden Walch 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
33 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in animation, 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 Top Scooby-Doo!
as Lena / Joan (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Assault on Arkham
as Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tangled
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
as Lena / Joan (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Harley Quinn (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Harley Quinn (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Jerry Maguire
as Women's Group Member
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tangled
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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