Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#557
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kimberly Brooks 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.
Kimberly Brooks appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kimberly. Spies in Disguise 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, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Fogel, Peter Browngardt, Trey Parker and others, Kimberly Brooks 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.
Spies in Disguise (2019) as Lance's Car (voice) · Turning Red (2022) as Additional Voices (voice) · Justice League: War (2014) as Darla (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #557 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2001–2024
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Spies in Disguise
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
Most frequent director
Trey Parker
7 films together
Longest collaboration
7×
With Trey Parker
Most common genre
Animation
27 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
6.6
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Spies in Disguise, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, Manou the Swift — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 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
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Curious George, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 7.32 films | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 7.02 films | 6.718 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Zachary / Reporter / Angie / Libby's Mom (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2024The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
The current state of the argument, as Janey Powell / Lewis Clark / Various Children (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.
27 of 27 films
as Lance's Car (voice)
Directed by Troy Quane
as Kathleen Kennedy / Panderverse Mitch Murphy (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Domee Shi
as Laura Tucker / Linda Black (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Janice (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
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
Lance's Car (voice)
Spies in Disguise (2019)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lance's Car (voice) gives Kimberly Brooks a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kathleen Kennedy / Panderverse Mitch Murphy (voice)
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Performance score7.2
South Park: Joining the Panderverse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kathleen Kennedy / Panderverse Mitch Murphy (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)
Turning Red (2022)
Performance score7.2
Turning Red 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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Laura Tucker / Linda Black (voice)
South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Performance score7.1
South Park: The End of Obesity asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laura Tucker / Linda Black (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 Lance's Car (voice)
Start here. Spies in Disguise is the clearest statement of what Kimberly Brooks does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kimberly 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.
Turning Red (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Spies in Disguise but asks for a colder reading of it.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Turning Red but asks for a colder reading of it.
South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (2023)
Same director as South Park: Joining the Panderverse, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Same director as South Park (Not Suitable for Children), 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.
Trey Parker
Director
7 films together
Notably South Park: Joining the Panderverse
John A. Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Jeff McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Matthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George
Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: War
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
Troy Quane
Director
1 film together
Notably Spies in Disguise
Butch Lukic
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Adam Strange
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George: Cape Ahoy
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Jam: A New Legacy
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Darrell Van Citters
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom and Jerry: Snowman's Land
Luke Cormican
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Domee Shi
Director
1 film together
Notably Turning Red
Debbie Bruce Mahan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Peter Browngardt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Eric Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Trey Parker
Director
7 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 7 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
South Park: Joining the PanderverseTroy Quane
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spies in DisguiseDomee Shi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Turning RedJay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: WarPeter Browngardt
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes MovieBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Jam: A New LegacySam Liu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder Woman: BloodlinesDebbie Bruce Mahan
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye FaithfulLuke Cormican
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick RulesMatthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious GeorgeDarrell Van Citters
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom and Jerry: Snowman's LandJeff 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 MovieButch Lukic
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: Adam StrangeJohn A. Davis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jimmy Neutron: Boy GeniusKatie Rice
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! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseDoug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious George: Cape AhoyEric Fogel
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Megamind vs. the Doom SyndicateSix 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
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (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
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Vola (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
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (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. Kimberly Brooks 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
23 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
27 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
Turning Red
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Vola (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Turning Red
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spies in Disguise
as Lance's Car (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Vola (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Curious George: Cape Ahoy
as Gwen (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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