Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5320
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Richard Steven Horvitz represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Richard is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Richard Steven Horvitz appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Richard. Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 music, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joe DeMaio, Charlie Haskell, Jake Wyatt and others, Richard Steven Horvitz 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.
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway (2025) as Self · Mulan (1998) as Additional Voices (voice) · Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019) as Zim (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5320 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1998–2025
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
Most frequent director
Joe DeMaio
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joe DeMaio
Most common genre
Family
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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
6.5
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
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Mulan — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.9
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. Mulan.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | — | 6.21 film | 7.31 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.02 films | 7.11 film | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.03 films | 7.33 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 7.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Mulan
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Career peak
2019Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2025Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Zim (voice)
Directed by Jake Wyatt
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tony Bancroft
as Lowe's Salesman #3
Directed by Glenn Ficarra
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Thurop Van Orman
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
Self
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Richard Steven Horvitz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Zim (voice)
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
Performance score8.0
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zim (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)
Mulan (1998)
Performance score7.8
Mulan 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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Lowe's Salesman #3
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Performance score7.2
Crazy, Stupid, Love. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lowe's Salesman #3 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 Self
Start here. Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway is the clearest statement of what Richard Steven Horvitz does — accessible, 46 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Richard 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.
Mulan (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Mulan — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Crazy, Stupid, Love. but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Jake Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
Charlie Haskell
Director
1 film together
Notably Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always
Joe DeMaio
Director
1 film together
Notably Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joe DeMaio
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hazbin Hotel: Live on BroadwayTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MulanJake Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Invader Zim: Enter the FlorpusGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crazy, Stupid, Love.Thurop Van Orman
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 Angry Birds Movie 2Charlie Haskell
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & AlwaysBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Osmosis JonesSix 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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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
Mulan
as Additional Voices (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
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
as Self
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. Richard Steven Horvitz 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.
Family Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in family, 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
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Osmosis Jones
as Additional Character Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as Lowe's Salesman #3
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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