Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4367
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Matt Lanter 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.
Matt Lanter appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matt. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, rewatchability. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Wamester, Ken Cunningham, Matt Peters and others, Matt Lanter 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.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice) · The Death of Superman (2019) as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice) · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024) as Blue Beetle / Ultraman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4367 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2008–2024
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Animation
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | — | 6.52 films | — |
| Action | 6.21 film | 7.13 films | 7.05 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.41 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film | 6.42 films |
| Horror | — | 5.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Anakin Skywalker (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
7.9 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
2024Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
The current state of the argument, as Blue Beetle (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.
14 of 14 films
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Blue Beetle / Ultraman (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
as Sled (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Blue Beetle (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
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
Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice) gives Matt Lanter a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
The Death of Superman (2019)
Performance score7.3
The Death of Superman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blue Beetle / Ultraman (voice)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Performance score7.2
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blue Beetle / Ultraman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sled (voice)
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Performance score7.2
Secret of the Wings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sled (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 Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Start here. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest statement of what Matt Lanter does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matt 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.
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Keeps the fantasy register of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Death of Superman (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Secret of the Wings but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Keeps the action register of The Death of Superman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Same director as Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One, 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.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Jake Castorena
Director
2 films together
Notably The Death of Superman
Ken Cunningham
Director
2 films together
Notably LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Dave Filoni
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part OneJake Castorena
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Death of SupermanKen Cunningham
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
LEGO Star Wars Holiday SpecialMatt 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 WarEthan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: Throne of AtlantisDave Filoni
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Clone WarsSix 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (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 Sled (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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
as Blue Beetle (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (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. Matt Lanter 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
12 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Secret of the Wings
as Sled (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Secret of the Wings
as Sled (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Arthur Curry / Aquaman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Secret of the Wings
as Sled (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
as Blue Beetle / Ultraman (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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