Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7191
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Al Rodrigo 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.
Al Rodrigo appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Al. 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joaquim Dos Santos, Joel Crawford, Michael Cusack and others, Al Rodrigo 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) · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Additional Voices (voice) · Coco (2017) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7191 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2001–2023
Career length
22 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
7.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Joaquim Dos Santos
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joaquim Dos Santos
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.1
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
2020s
7.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.6
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. House of Sand and Fog, Osmosis Jones.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 7.21 film | — | — |
| Action | 6.51 film | 7.82 films | 8.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 6.93 films | 7.42 films |
| Crime | — | 7.51 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Osmosis Jones
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Frank Police Department Walkie Talkie (voice).
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
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (voice).
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.
12 of 12 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Peter Ramsey
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Lee Unkrich
as Bartender (voice)
Directed by Joel Crawford
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez
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 Al Rodrigo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.2
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 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)
Coco (2017)
Performance score8.1
Coco 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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Bartender (voice)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Performance score8.0
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bartender (voice) 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 Al Rodrigo 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 Al 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 Book of Life (2014)
Keeps the animation register of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Coco (2017)
Keeps the family register of The Book of Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Keeps the adventure register of Coco but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me
Rob Minkoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Life
Eric Darnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Penguins of Madagascar
Lee Unkrich
Director
1 film together
Notably Coco
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Michael Cusack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together
Notably Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter 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-VerseJoaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseLee Unkrich
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CocoJoel Crawford
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Puss in Boots: The Last WishJorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of LifeChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable MeRob 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 & ShermanEric Darnell
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Penguins of MadagascarBobby 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 JonesMichael Cusack
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Six 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
Coco
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
Coco
as Additional Voices (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. Al Rodrigo 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
22 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
11 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
Coco
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Book of Life
as Additional Voices (voice)
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: Across the Spider-Verse
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Coco
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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