Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#90
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
John DiMaggio represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and John is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
John DiMaggio appears in 56 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without John. Zootopia is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Darin McGowan, Chris Renaud, Jeff Wamester and others, John DiMaggio 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.
Zootopia (2016) as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice) · Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) as King Shark / Trigon (voice) · The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) as Uncle Arthur (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #90 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
56
1996–2025
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Zootopia
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Most frequent director
Henrique Jardim
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Henrique Jardim
Most common genre
Animation
50 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.7
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Minion Scouts, Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Eddie.
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 5.51 film | 6.56 films | 7.09 films | 7.012 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 6.19 films | 7.310 films | 7.010 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.23 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | — | 5.31 film | 5.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Eddie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Construction Worker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Zootopia
8.0 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
2025A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
The current state of the argument, as Flip / Mr. Grouse / Patchy Drizzle (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.
56 of 56 films
as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as King Shark / Trigon (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Friz / GPS / Msicellaneous Bikers (voice)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
as Uncle Arthur (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Scout Master (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
Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice)
Zootopia (2016)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice) gives John DiMaggio a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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King Shark / Trigon (voice)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Performance score7.7
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. King Shark / Trigon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Friz / GPS / Msicellaneous Bikers (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
Performance score7.7
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Friz / GPS / Msicellaneous Bikers (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Uncle Arthur (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Performance score7.6
The Super Mario Bros. Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Uncle Arthur (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 Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice)
Start here. Zootopia is the clearest statement of what John DiMaggio does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet John 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.
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
Keeps the comedy register of Zootopia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Minion Scouts (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Minion Scouts but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Henrique Jardim
Director
3 films together
Notably Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
Ethan Spaulding
Director
2 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur
Byron Howard
Director
2 films together
Notably Zootopia
Jake Castorena
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tony Cervone
Director
2 films together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Jeff Wamester
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Andrew R. Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably The Animatrix
Scott Jeralds
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster
Steve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together
Notably Barnyard
Simon J. Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Bee Movie
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman
Klay Hall
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Green Arrow
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Fockers
Michael Goguen
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Age of Extinction
Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Bad Blood
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Eddie Rosas
Director
1 film together
Notably A Trash Truck Christmas
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
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
Ken Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales
Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
Cinco Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More Volume 1
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions: The Rise of Gru
Christopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Steven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Kyle Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me 4
Darin McGowan
Director
1 film together
Notably A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Henrique Jardim
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The MovieAaron Horvath
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
The Super Mario Bros. MovieEthan Spaulding
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
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the PhantosaurTony Cervone
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
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-DooByron Howard
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
ZootopiaJake Castorena
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesJeff Wamester
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part ThreeMatt 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 WarMichael Goguen
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue FalconChris Palmer
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part TwoSteven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Rise of the BeastsKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions: The Rise of GruScott Jeralds
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness MonsterDarin McGowan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or NicePhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetLauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WomanAndrew R. Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AnimatrixChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable Me 4Kyle Marshall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to Spy: A Loud House MovieBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyJoaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: Green ArrowCinco Paul
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More Volume 1Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Bad BloodKen Cunningham
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying TalesKlay Hall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinker Bell and the Lost TreasureChristopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: The Doom That Came to GothamSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Gotham by GaslightSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kim Possible: A Sitch in TimeChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicEddie Rosas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Trash Truck ChristmasPeter 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 JamSimon J. Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bee MovieMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Age of ExtinctionSteve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarnyardPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little FockersSix 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
Zootopia
as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (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
Secret of the Wings
as Minister of Autumn (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
Zootopia
as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Underdog
as Bulldog / Supershep 4 (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zootopia
as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (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. John DiMaggio 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
29 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
50 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
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
as Groundskeeper Amos (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
as Mad Hatter (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as Pinecone Jinn (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
as Groundskeeper Amos (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as King Shark / Trigon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
as Mr. Grouse / Flop / Henchman Mo (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Uncle Arthur (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Zootopia
as Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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