Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3670
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lombardo Boyar represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Lombardo is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Lombardo Boyar appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lombardo. Coco is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 mystery, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gavin O'Connor, Reginald Hudlin, Zack Ward and others, Lombardo Boyar 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.
Coco (2017) as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice) · Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) as Terry · The Accountant² (2025) as Tomas
Career snapshot
Ranked #3670 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
1998–2025
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Coco
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Coco
Most frequent director
George Miller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With George Miller
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.5
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
1990s
7.1 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Gia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
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. Gia.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 7.11 film | 5.72 films | 7.31 film | 6.11 film |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | 7.31 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film | 7.31 film | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.93 films | 5.92 films | 6.13 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film | — | 7.11 film |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.01 film | 5.61 film | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Gia
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hood #2.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Coco
8.4 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
2025The Accountant²
The current state of the argument, as Tomas.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
Directed by Lee Unkrich
as Terry
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Tomas
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
as Hood #2
Directed by Michael Cristofer
as Scott
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
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
Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
Coco (2017)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice) gives Lombardo Boyar a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Terry
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Performance score7.2
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Terry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tomas
The Accountant² (2025)
Performance score7.0
The Accountant² asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tomas is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hood #2
Gia (1998)
Performance score7.0
Gia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hood #2 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 Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
Start here. Coco is the clearest statement of what Lombardo Boyar does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lombardo 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.
Gia (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Coco — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Gia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Accountant² (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Candy Cane Lane — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably Happy Feet
Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together
Notably Gia
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably S1m0ne
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably What Just Happened
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Some Kind of Beautiful
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Lee Unkrich
Director
1 film together
Notably Coco
Alejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together
Notably Satanic Hispanics
Michael Cusack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
Zack Ward
Director
1 film together
Notably The Keepers of the 5 Kingdoms
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Candy Cane Lane
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Accountant²
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Miller
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Happy FeetLee Unkrich
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CocoMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dawn of the Planet of the ApesGavin O'Connor
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 Accountant²Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GiaMichael Cusack
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Candy Cane LaneAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
S1m0neAlejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Satanic HispanicsZack Ward
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Keepers of the 5 KingdomsTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Some Kind of BeautifulBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Just HappenedSix 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
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (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
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (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
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Paramedic
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (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. Lombardo Boyar 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
27 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Accountant²
as Tomas
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Endings, Beginnings
as Fruit Stand Vendor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Accountant²
as Tomas
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Paramedic
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Coco
as Plaza Mariachi / Gustavo (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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