Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2733
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rif Hutton represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Rif is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rif Hutton appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rif. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 comedy, fantasy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Phil Johnston, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Chris Bailey and others, Rif Hutton 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.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) as Additional Voices (voice) · Hotel Transylvania (2012) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2733 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
1999–2025
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.6
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
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Thirteenth Floor — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
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. The Thirteenth Floor.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | — | — | 6.81 film | 6.71 film |
| Action | — | 6.42 films | 7.92 films | 5.72 films |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | — | 6.21 film | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.52 films | 6.77 films | 5.73 films |
| Crime | — | — | — | 5.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Joe.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8.7 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
The current state of the argument, as Godsend Timer.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Peter Ramsey
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Thurop Van Orman
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
as Joe
Directed by Josef Rusnak
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Rif Hutton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Performance score7.0
The Angry Birds Movie 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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Additional Voices (voice)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Performance score6.9
Hotel Transylvania 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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Joe
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Performance score6.9
The Thirteenth Floor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joe 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Rif Hutton does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rif 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.
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Keeps the science fiction register of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Thirteenth Floor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Hotel Transylvania but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lightyear (2022)
Keeps the adventure register of The Angry Birds Movie 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Carlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together
Notably Rio
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thirteenth Floor
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Matthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious George
Alex Kurtzman
Director
1 film together
Notably People Like Us
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Lights
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Chris Bailey
Director
1 film together
Notably Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek: Section 31
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twits
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaCarlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RioPeter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseThurop 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 2Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Thirteenth FloorAlex Kurtzman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
People Like UsRob Minkoff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Peabody & ShermanChris Bailey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicMatthew O'Callaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious GeorgeBobby 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 JonesRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red LightsPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TwitsOlatunde Osunsanmi
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek: Section 31Six 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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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
Epic
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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Red Lights
as Radio Duo Male Voice (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (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. Rif Hutton 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
26 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
15 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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Thirteenth Floor
as Joe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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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