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Paul Walter Hauser

Paul Walter Hauser

Actor, also producer · Born October 15, 1986 (40) · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Primetime Emmy winner · Golden Globe winner · Screen Actors Guild Award nominee · 1 other major award body

Paul Walter Hauser (born October 15, 1986) is an American actor and wrestler. He is best known for portraying Stingray in the Netflix series Cobra Kai and providing the voice of Embarrassment in Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024). He played supporting roles in the films Super Troopers 2 (2018), Beats (2019), Adam (2020), Cruella (2021) and Old Dads (2023). In 2019, Hauser had his breakout performance as the title character in Clint Eastwood's drama film Richard Jewell. Hauser starred as murderer Larry Hall in the 2022 miniseries Black Bird, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. As an occasional professional wrestler, Hauser is signed to Major League Wrestling.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
October 15, 1986 (40)
From
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Works as
Actor, also producer
Titles
46 on MovieCove · 68 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 55% in 30 days

What are Paul Walter Hauser's films like?

Across their 32 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.

Genres

Biography6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 78th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Adventure4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 48th percentile
: browse their Adventure movies
Comedy4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 46th percentile
: browse their Comedy movies
Action3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 58th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Drama3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 59th percentile
: browse their Drama movies
Animation2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 55th percentile
: browse their Animation movies
Documentary2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 90th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Documentary movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
31%
Morality
19%
Bonds
18%
Survival
11%
Society
11%
Ideas
7%
Power
3%
Survival7 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition6 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship6 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice6 titles, browse their movies with this themeSelf-worth5 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds5 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity5 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception5 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 26 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 10 · Serious 6 · Dark 10

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 13 · Stylized 9 · Heightened 4

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 2 · Charged 15 · Intense 9

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 8 · Shifting 11 · Whiplash 7

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 11 · Some laughs 9 · Funny 6

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 18 · Relentless 2

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 7 · Engaged 18 · Full focus 1

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 10 · Affecting 7 · Heavy 9

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 19 · Open-ended 6 · Ambiguous 1

Roles they play

15 analyzed roles

Usually the Hero: 4 of 15 analyzed roles.

Hero
4 of 15
Trickster
4 of 15
Ally
4 of 15
Herald
1 of 15
Shadow
1 of 15
Mentor
1 of 15
Show the 15 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
20
Melancholic
13
Absurd
10
Hopeful
10
Contemplative
9
Other
34

How their films linger

Hopeful11 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good12 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking10 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet11 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 6 with a twist

  • Happy7
  • Bittersweet21
  • Ambiguous4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Paul Walter Hauser's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 41 of their 46 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (10).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Paul Walter Hauser's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

68 credits, 46 with a MovieCove page; 14 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Resident Evil(2026)

    as Paul

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • Maple Leaf Pro: Multiverse 2026 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • PROGRESS Chapter 193: PROGRESS Las Vegas II (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Balls Up(2026)

    as Elijah

    Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films

  • MLW Battle Riot VIII (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Orange Crush & JCW: Superpower Slam 2026 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Playdate(2025)

    as Zach G

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere(2025)

    as Mike Batlan

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • The Chosen Adventures(2025)

    Show 14 episodes · as Sheep (voice)

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows

  • ROH Death Before Dishonor 2025 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Americana(2023)

    as Lefty Ledbetter

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • The Naked Gun(2025)

    as Ed Hocken Jr.

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps(2025)

    as Harvey Elder / Mole Man

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • The Luckiest Man in America(2024)

    Executive Producer · as Michael

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • AEW Revolution 2025: Zero Hour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • MLW SuperFight 6 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • MLW Kings of Colosseum 2025 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Eric Bischoff's One Shot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    as Paul Walter Hauser

  • The Instigators(2024)

    as Booch

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films

  • Inside Out 2(2024)

    as Embarrassment (voice)

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • Orion and the Dark(2024)

    as Dark (voice)

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • Old Dads(2023)

    as Tracy

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • All Elite Wrestling: Collision (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 1 episode · as Paul Walter Hauser

  • Bupkis(2023)

    Show 1 episode · as Hauser

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows

  • The Magic Of Passion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    as Howard

  • Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm(2022)

    as Elmer (voice)

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Delia's Gone(2022)

    as Bo

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • Black Bird(2022)

    Show 6 episodes · as Larry Hall

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • Hey! (EW)(2022)

    Show 1 episode · as Paul Walter Hauser

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Afterparty(2022)

    Show 10 episodes · as Travis

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows

  • Queenpins(2021)

    as Ken

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • Cruella(2021)

    as Horace

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • Calls(2021)

    Show 1 episode · as Floyd (voice)

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows

  • Silk Road(2021)

    as Curtis Clark Green

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Songbird(2020)

    as Dozer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Eat Wheaties!(2020)

    as James Fisk

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Adam(2020)

    as Trent

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Da 5 Bloods(2020)

    as Simon

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Reno 911! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 6 episodes · as Jeffy Renee Chisholm

  • Richard Jewell(2019)

    as Richard Jewell

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • 7 Days to Vegas(2019)

    as Puppet Hank

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films

  • Heirloom (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Director · Producer · Writer · as Ralph

  • Beats(2019)

    as Terrence

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Late Night(2019)

    as Mancuso

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • BlacKkKlansman(2018)

    as Ivanhoe

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films

  • Cobra Kai(2018)

    Show 10 episodes · as Raymond · as Raymond 'Stingray' Porter

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows

  • Super Troopers 2(2018)

    as Lonnie Laloush

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • I, Tonya(2017)

    as Shawn

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films

  • A Midsummer's Nightmare(2017)

    as Nick Bottoms

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Corridor Defended (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    as Local Yokel

  • Superstore(2015)

    Show 1 episode · as Vince

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows

  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt(2015)

    Show 2 episodes · as Tripp Knob

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows

  • Kingdom(2014)

    Show 26 episodes · as Keith

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

  • The Night Shift(2014)

    Show 1 episode · as Oren Edwards

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows

  • Betas(2013)

    Show 4 episodes · as Dashawn

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows

  • iSteve (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    as Pastey Jones

  • Key and Peele(2012)

    Show 1 episode · as Overweight Guy · as Person at People Park #3

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows

  • Demoted(2011)

    as Bothered Salesman (uncredited)

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films

  • Virginia(2010)

    as Dale

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • Community(2009)

    Show 1 episode · as Student #3

    Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows

  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia(2005)

    Show 1 episode · as Richie

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows

  • A Chris Farley Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Chris Farley

  • Deep Eddy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Pug Browder

  • Fruitcake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • The Official Mistress (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as King Louis XVI

  • The Very Best People (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Executive Producer · Actor

  • Tommy Karate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Jim Hunt

  • Turpentine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 68 titles, 61 of them dated from 2005 to 2026; peak year 2025.

Biggest box office

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

$522M worldwide

Highest rated

I, Tonya (2017)

Midcredits 96th

Most popular right now

Resident Evil (2026)

Film career

MilestoneBreakoutNomination
20052026

Peak 2025 · their film career is on the way up. Top draw in 11 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting68 of 68: 65 only acting, 3 with another role · typical Midcredits score60thDirecting1 of 68: 0 only directing, 1 with another roleWriting1 of 68: 0 only writing, 1 with another roleProducing3 of 68: 0 only producing, 3 with another role

68 titles, 3 with more than one role — acting and producing overlap on 3 of them.

By decade

2000s2 · acting2010s20 · 20 acting · 1 crew2020s39 · 39 acting · 1 crew

Billing

usually 5th · top billed in 7% of 27 roles
102025

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

Awards

a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe and 1 other major award from 5 major nominations, 2021–2023.

WinNomination
  1. 2023
    • Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
    • Golden Globe, won · Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
    • +1 other major body · 1 win
      • Critics Choice Award, won · Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television
  2. 2021
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Paul Walter Hauser's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 53rd percentile, the median of all 31; across their 26 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 62nd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

62ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 26

Approval · how many liked their films

54thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 26

Reach · how many have seen their films

90thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 26

Midcredits score across 46 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up15
  • 50th to 74th16
  • 25th to 49th9
  • Below 25th6

Shape of the crowd

15 of their 46 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved11
  • Loved with Detractors1
  • Divisive2
  • Crowd Pleaser15
  • Broadly Agreed5
  • Mixed12

Most divisive · actor

A Midsummer's Nightmare (2017)

97th percentile spread · 38% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

I, Tonya (2017)

Midcredits 96th · 85% liked

Reviewers score the acting 72/100 in their films, across 23 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Paul Walter Hauser's work okay for kids?

Across up to 24 MovieCove titles with content scores, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore21 titles17–88 · median 52 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity24 titles11–61 · median 26 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity22 titles32–91 · median 71 · intenseheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs20 titles8–71 · median 37 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense20 titles20–74 · median 49 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Paul Walter Hauser work with?

People who share at least 2 of Paul Walter Hauser's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Craig Gillespie shares the most, 2.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles