Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2479
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ayo Edebiri 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.
Ayo Edebiri appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ayo. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Rowe, Morgan Neville, Luca Guadagnino and others, Ayo Edebiri 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: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Glory (voice) · Inside Out 2 (2024) as Envy (voice) · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) as April O'Neil (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2479 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2020–2027
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Jeff Rowe
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jeff Rowe
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.2
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
5.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2, Clarissa, Lorne — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.7
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.7
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. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2, Clarissa, Lorne.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 |
|---|---|
| Drama | 5.18 films |
| Action | 5.23 films |
| Thriller | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | 5.810 films |
| Romance | 6.33 films |
| Horror | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2020Shithouse
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Emily (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8.5 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
2027Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2
The current state of the argument, as April O'Neil (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.
18 of 18 films
as Glory (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Envy (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as April O'Neil (voice)
Directed by Jeff Rowe
as Emily (uncredited)
Directed by Cooper Raiff
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
Glory (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Glory (voice) gives Ayo Edebiri a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Envy (voice)
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Performance score7.4
Inside Out 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Envy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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April O'Neil (voice)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Performance score7.3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. April O'Neil (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Josie
Bottoms (2023)
Performance score7.2
Bottoms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Josie 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 Glory (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Ayo Edebiri does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ayo 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.
Shithouse (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Shithouse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bottoms (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem but asks for a colder reading of it.
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Same director as Bottoms, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Rowe
Director
2 films together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Cooper Raiff
Director
1 film together
Notably Shithouse
Kieran Mulcare
Director
1 film together
Notably Cicada
Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably How It Ends
Molly Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Theater Camp
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
James L. Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Ella McCay
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably After the Hunt
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Rowe
Director
2 films together · 3.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemJoaquim 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-VerseCooper Raiff
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShithouseMorgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LorneMolly Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Theater CampBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertKieran Mulcare
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CicadaLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After the HuntJames L. Brooks
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ella McCayZoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How It EndsSix 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: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (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
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
as Stella
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: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (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. Ayo Edebiri 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
10 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
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
as Stella
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Opus
as Ariel Ecton
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Shithouse
as Emily (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Glory (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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