Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4,126
of 15,890 eligible performers
Kevin Sorbo 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.
Kevin Sorbo appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kevin. The Girl Who Believes in Miracles is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 drama, fantasy, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sean McNamara, Kevin Sorbo, Rich Correll and others, Kevin Sorbo 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 Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021) as Dr. Ben Riley · Without a Doubt (2025) as Dr. Corsi · God's Here (2024) as Detective Kent Powers
Career snapshot
Ranked #4,126 of 15,890 eligible performers in the Nutevio catalogue.
Films in Nutevio
19
2009–2027
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Average Nutevio score
4.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Without a Doubt
Most frequent director
Sean McNamara
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sean McNamara
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
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
6.2
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
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bernie the Dolphin 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. Bitch Slap.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 5.51 film | — | 4.18 films |
| Action | 5.51 film | — | 5.82 films |
| Thriller | 5.51 film | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 6.11 film | 3.12 films |
| Crime | 5.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Bitch Slap
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mr. Phoenix.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
6.9 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
2027Christmas Eve
The current state of the argument, as Capt. Tom Granger.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Tear-Drop Charlie
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
Dr. Ben Riley
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Ben Riley gives Kevin Sorbo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dr. Corsi
Without a Doubt (2025)
Performance score7.1
Without a Doubt asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Corsi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tear-Drop Charlie
Pickleball Pete (2026)
Performance score6.9
Pickleball Pete asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tear-Drop Charlie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wesley Harper
A Gunfighter's Deal (2025)
Performance score6.9
A Gunfighter's Deal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wesley Harper 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 Dr. Ben Riley
Start here. The Girl Who Believes in Miracles is the clearest statement of what Kevin Sorbo does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kevin 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 Penitent Thief (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Girl Who Believes in Miracles but asks for a colder reading of it.
Without a Doubt (2025)
Same director as The Penitent Thief, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
A Gunfighter's Deal (2025)
Same director as Without a Doubt, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Pickleball Pete (2026)
Same director as A Gunfighter's Deal, 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.
Rick Jacobson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bitch Slap
Rich Correll
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Kevin Sorbo
Director
1 film together
Notably Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Reagan
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rich Correll
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 Girl Who Believes in MiraclesSean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ReaganKevin Sorbo
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Left Behind: Rise of the AntichristRick Jacobson
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bitch SlapSix 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 Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Dr. Ben Riley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Reagan
as Rev. Ben Cleaver
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 Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Dr. Ben Riley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Reagan
as Rev. Ben Cleaver
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Dr. Ben Riley
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. Kevin Sorbo 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, 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 Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Dr. Ben Riley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bitch Slap
as Mr. Phoenix
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Reagan
as Rev. Ben Cleaver
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Penitent Thief
as King Herod
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Last Redemption
as Lord Roland
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Last Redemption
as Lord Roland
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bitch Slap
as Mr. Phoenix
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
as Rayford "Ray" Steele
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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