Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4526
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Max Mittelman 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.
Max Mittelman appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Max. The Wild Robot 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, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Zac Moncrief, Chris Sanders, Chris Williams and others, Max Mittelman 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 Wild Robot (2024) as Weasel 2 (voice) · The Death of Superman (2019) as Jimmy Olsen (voice) · Incredibles 2 (2018) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4526 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
The Wild Robot
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Wild Robot
Most frequent director
Jake Castorena
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Castorena
Most common genre
Animation
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.4
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Frozen II, Reign of the Supermen, The Death of Superman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Frozen II, Reign of the Supermen, The Death of Superman.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.32 films | — |
| Action | 7.24 films | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024The Wild Robot
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
2025A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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.
13 of 13 films
as Weasel 2 (voice)
Directed by Chris Sanders
as Jimmy Olsen (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Brad Bird
as Young Sailor (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
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
Weasel 2 (voice)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Weasel 2 (voice) gives Max Mittelman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jimmy Olsen (voice)
The Death of Superman (2019)
Performance score7.3
The Death of Superman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimmy Olsen (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)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Performance score7.3
Incredibles 2 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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Young Sailor (voice)
The Sea Beast (2022)
Performance score7.2
The Sea Beast asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Sailor (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 Weasel 2 (voice)
Start here. The Wild Robot is the clearest statement of what Max Mittelman does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Max 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.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of The Wild Robot but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Death of Superman (2019)
Keeps the action register of Incredibles 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frozen II (2019)
Keeps the animation register of The Death of Superman but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Sea Beast (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of Frozen II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together
Notably The Death of Superman
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs: The Lost Village
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen II
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Christo Stamboliev
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sea Beast
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Robot
Zac Moncrief
Director
1 film together
Notably A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Castorena
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
The Death of SupermanChris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild RobotBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2Chris Williams
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sea BeastChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frozen IIChristo Stamboliev
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 Boss Baby: Christmas BonusKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smurfs: The Lost VillageZac Moncrief
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Chuck E. Cheese ChristmasKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 5.9 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 MultiverseSix 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 Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (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
The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus
as Adult Tim (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
The Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (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. Max Mittelman 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
13 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
The Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus
as Adult Tim (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Sea Beast
as Young Sailor (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Incredibles 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Death and Return of Superman
as Jimmy Olsen (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Frozen II
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wild Robot
as Weasel 2 (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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