Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2477
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Robbie Amell 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.
Robbie Amell appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robbie. Float is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 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 action, science fiction, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Chan, Sherren Lee, April Mullen and others, Robbie Amell 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.
Float (2024) as Blake Hamilton · When We First Met (2018) as Ethan · Code 8 Part II (2024) as Connor
Career snapshot
Ranked #2477 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2005–2024
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
Float
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
Float
Most frequent director
McG
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With McG
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.3
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
2000s
6.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | — | 6.21 film | 6.22 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.24 films | 6.14 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film | 6.43 films |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | 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 Daniel Murtaugh.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2024Float
6.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Blake Hamilton.
Career peak
2024Code 8 Part II
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
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 Connor
Directed by Jeff Chan
as Blake Hamilton
Directed by Sherren Lee
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
Connor
Code 8 Part II (2024)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Connor gives Robbie Amell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Blake Hamilton
Float (2024)
Performance score7.1
Float asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blake Hamilton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Graham
EXmas (2023)
Performance score6.9
EXmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Graham is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Max
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Performance score6.8
The Babysitter: Killer Queen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Max 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 Connor
Start here. Code 8 Part II is the clearest statement of what Robbie Amell does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Robbie 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.
When We First Met (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Code 8 Part II — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of When We First Met but asks for a colder reading of it.
EXmas (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Babysitter: Killer Queen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Float (2024)
Keeps the romance register of EXmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Brian Dannelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Struck by Lightning
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine Lives
LP
Director
1 film together
Notably Desperados
April Mullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Simulant
Sherren Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Float
Jeff Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Code 8 Part II
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
McG
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
The Babysitter: Killer QueenSherren Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FloatJeff Chan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Code 8 Part IIBrian Dannelly
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Struck by LightningAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cheaper by the Dozen 2LP
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DesperadosApril Mullen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SimulantBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nine LivesSix 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
Float
as Blake Hamilton
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Float
as Blake Hamilton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Float
as Blake Hamilton
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
as Daniel Murtaugh
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Code 8 Part II
as Connor
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. Robbie Amell 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 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
Float
as Blake Hamilton
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Code 8 Part II
as Connor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Float
as Blake Hamilton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nine Lives
as David Brand
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Code 8 Part II
as Connor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
as Chris Redfield
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Float
as Blake Hamilton
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Code 8 Part II
as Connor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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