Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#23543
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Spencer Breslin represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Spencer is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Spencer Breslin appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Spencer. Stuck in Love is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, horror, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Cullen Bressack, Josh Boone, M. Night Shyamalan and others, Spencer Breslin 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.
Stuck in Love (2013) as Jason · The Kid (2000) as Rusty Duritz · The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) as Prince Jacques Dubé
Career snapshot
Ranked #23543 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Stuck in Love
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Stuck in Love
Most frequent director
Garry Marshall
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Garry Marshall
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
2010s
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Stuck in Love — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. The Happening, The Shaggy Dog, Zoom.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.52 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Action | 5.31 film | — | 5.51 film |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | — | 5.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.07 films | 7.41 film | 5.31 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.51 film |
| Romance | 6.53 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Meet the Parents
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Little Boy.
Career peak
2000The Kid
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2013Stuck in Love
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Skate to Hell
The current state of the argument, as Buddy.
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 Jason
Directed by Josh Boone
as Rusty Duritz
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
as Prince Jacques Dubé
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Little Boy
Directed by Jay Roach
as Buddy
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Jason
Stuck in Love (2013)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jason gives Spencer Breslin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rusty Duritz
The Kid (2000)
Performance score7.2
The Kid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rusty Duritz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Prince Jacques Dubé
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Performance score6.6
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Prince Jacques Dubé is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Little Boy
Meet the Parents (2000)
Performance score6.6
Meet the Parents asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Little Boy 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 Jason
Start here. Stuck in Love is the clearest statement of what Spencer Breslin does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Spencer 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 Kid (2000)
Keeps the comedy register of Stuck in Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
Meet the Parents (2000)
Keeps the comedy register of The Kid but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Keeps the romance register of Meet the Parents but asks for a colder reading of it.
Skate to Hell (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Garry Marshall
Director
2 films together
Notably The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet the Parents
Bo Welch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat in the Hat
Peter Hewitt
Director
1 film together
Notably Zoom
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Shaggy Dog
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Happening
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck in Love
James Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together
Notably Darkness of Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Garry Marshall
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal EngagementJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck in LoveJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet the ParentsJames Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Darkness of ManM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HappeningBo Welch
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cat in the HatPeter Hewitt
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZoomBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Shaggy DogSix 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
Stuck in Love
as Jason
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 Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Prince Jacques Dubé
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Stuck in Love
as Jason
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Meet the Parents
as Little Boy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stuck in Love
as Jason
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. Spencer Breslin 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.
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
Stuck in Love
as Jason
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Stuck in Love
as Jason
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Prince Jacques Dubé
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Kid
as Rusty Duritz
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stuck in Love
as Jason
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Zoom
as Tucker Willams / Mega-Boy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Prince Jacques Dubé
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Cat in the Hat
as Conrad Walden
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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