Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4959
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kyle Mooney 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.
Kyle Mooney appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kyle. Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chloe Domont, Adam Shankman, Kitao Sakurai and others, Kyle Mooney 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.
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019) as Michelangelo (voice) · Brigsby Bear (2017) as James Pope · Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) as Existential Gnome (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4959 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2014–2027
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Most frequent director
Chloe Domont
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Chloe Domont
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
5.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Unicorn, Never Goin' Back — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.9
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Unicorn, Never Goin' Back.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.11 film | 2.32 films |
| Action | 6.12 films | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 3.22 films |
| Comedy | 5.97 films | 5.37 films |
| Crime | 7.21 film | 4.61 film |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | 5.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Playing It Cool
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Other Dude.
Career peak
2017Brigsby Bear
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2019Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027A Place in Hell
The current state of the argument.
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.
17 of 17 films
as James Pope
Directed by Dave McCary
as Michelangelo (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Existential Gnome (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Jody
Directed by Gene Stupnitsky
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
James Pope
Brigsby Bear (2017)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. James Pope gives Kyle Mooney a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Michelangelo (voice)
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
Performance score7.3
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michelangelo (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)
Performance score7.0
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Existential Gnome (voice)
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
Performance score6.7
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Existential Gnome (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 James Pope
Start here. Brigsby Bear is the clearest statement of what Kyle Mooney does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kyle 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.
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Brigsby Bear but asks for a colder reading of it.
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of No Hard Feelings but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Zoolander 2
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Dave McCary
Director
1 film together
Notably Brigsby Bear
Augustine Frizzell
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Goin' Back
Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unicorn
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Gene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together
Notably No Hard Feelings
Sam Wrench
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter
Jerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Unfrosted
Kyle Mooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Y2K
Kitao Sakurai
Director
1 film together
Notably Street Fighter
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Bag
Chloe Domont
Director
1 film together
Notably A Place in Hell
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesDave McCary
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brigsby BearSam Wrench
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina CarpenterGene Stupnitsky
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Hard FeelingsAugustine Frizzell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Goin' BackNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Neighbors 2: Sorority RisingJerry Seinfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnfrostedKyle Mooney
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Y2KBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zoolander 2Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The UnicornChloe Domont
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Place in HellAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the BagKitao Sakurai
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Street FighterSix 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
Brigsby Bear
as James Pope
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
as Existential Gnome (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
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spree
as Miles Manderville
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Brigsby Bear
as James Pope
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. Kyle Mooney 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.
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
14 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
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
as Existential Gnome (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
as Existential Gnome (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Michelangelo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Playing It Cool
as Other Dude
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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