Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15619
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Anna Vocino works on transformation 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.
Anna Vocino appears in 3 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anna. Toy Story 5 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, screen presence, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for animation, family, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Sam Liu, Anna Vocino 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.
Toy Story 5 (2026) as Mrs. Potato Head (voice) · Toy Story 5 (2026) as Mrs. Potato Head (voice) · Superman: Red Son (2020) as Tour Guide (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #15619 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
3
2020–2026
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Toy Story 5
Average Nutevio score
7.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Toy Story 5
Most frequent director
Andrew Stanton
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andrew Stanton
Most common genre
Animation
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.7
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
7.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Toy Story 5, Toy Story 5, Superman: Red Son — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Toy Story 5, Toy Story 5, Superman: Red Son.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Action | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | 7.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tour Guide (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Toy Story 5
8.2 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
2026Toy Story 5
The current state of the argument, as Mrs. Potato Head (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.
3 of 3 films
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Directed by Andrew Stanton
as Tour Guide (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 4 of 4 titles · 4 total credits · active 2020–2026
The defining work
#1
Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Toy Story 5 (2026)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mrs. Potato Head (voice) gives Anna Vocino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Toy Story 5 (2026)
Performance score7.2
Toy Story 5 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Potato Head (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Tour Guide (voice)
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Performance score7.0
Superman: Red Son asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tour Guide (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Start here. Toy Story 5 is the clearest statement of what Anna Vocino does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anna 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.
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Keeps the animation register of Toy Story 5 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Toy Story 5 (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Superman: Red Son but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrew Stanton
Director
2 films together
Notably Toy Story 5
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Tom Hanks
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Tim Allen
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Joan Cusack
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Greta Lee
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Conan O'Brien
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Craig Robinson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Shelby Rabara
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Tony Hale
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Scarlett Spears
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Jay Hernandez
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Lori Alan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Bonnie Hunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrew Stanton
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Toy Story 5Sam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Anna Vocino
Where this journey starts
Director
Andrew Stanton
2 collaborations, averaging 7.8
Film
Toy Story 5
Their highest-rated film together (2026)
Performer
Tom Hanks
Shares the frame in Toy Story 5
Film
The Green Mile
Where Tom goes next, and where you can too
Performer
William Sadler
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (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
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (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
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (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. Anna Vocino has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.6 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #622 of 681 | #9 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.2 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Animation, Family, Comedy | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Directors | Andrew Stanton | Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Comedy, Quiet performance | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 1999–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Mrs. Potato Head (voice) — Toy Story 5 | Paul Edgecomb — The Green Mile |
| Most rewatchable film | Toy Story 5 | The Green Mile |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Toy Story 5
Shared directors
andrew-stanton
Shared collections
Animation Movies, Comedy Movies
Collaborators in common
Andrew Stanton · Tim Allen · Joan Cusack · Greta Lee · Conan O'Brien · Craig Robinson · Shelby Rabara · Tony Hale
Tom Hanks edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
3 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
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Superman: Red Son
as Tour Guide (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story 5
as Mrs. Potato Head (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 2 Nutevio collections
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Greta Lee
Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
Conan O'Brien
Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
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