Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3990
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Betsy Sodaro 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.
Betsy Sodaro appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Betsy. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, animation, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jesse Moynihan, Jared Hess, Maureen Bharoocha and others, Betsy Sodaro 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.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice) · Past Life (2022) as Ragman · Trolls World Tour (2020) as Clampers Buttonwillow (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3990 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Most frequent director
Jesse Moynihan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jesse Moynihan
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Plus One, Next Gen, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Plus One, Next Gen, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 5.52 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 6.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.75 films | 5.59 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 5.82 films |
| Horror | — | 5.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance
2022Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022Past Life
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Hungy Ghost
The current state of the argument, as Beatrice Mole / Tammy Tanks (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 Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
Directed by Joel Crawford
as Clampers Buttonwillow (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Ragman
Past Life (2022)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ragman gives Betsy Sodaro a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (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. Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clampers Buttonwillow (voice)
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Performance score7.1
Trolls World Tour asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clampers Buttonwillow (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)
Monsters University (2013)
Performance score7.0
Monsters University 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ragman
Start here. Past Life is the clearest statement of what Betsy Sodaro does — accessible, 13 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Betsy 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.
Monsters University (2013)
Same director as Past Life, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Next Gen (2018)
Same director as Monsters University, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Next Gen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls World Tour but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Maggie Carey
Director
1 film together
Notably The To Do List
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Jeff Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Plus One
Tim Rauch
Director
1 film together
Notably Mushroom Park
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Hubie Halloween
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Valley Girl
Brandon Trost
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Pickle
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Sia
Director
1 film together
Notably Music
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together
Notably Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Out-Laws
Maureen Bharoocha
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prank
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Thelma the Unicorn
Jesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together
Notably Hungy Ghost
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joel 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 WishWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thelma the UnicornJeff Chan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plus OneGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on FootTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Out-LawsSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hubie HalloweenBrandon Trost
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American PickleMaggie Carey
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The To Do ListRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valley GirlMaureen Bharoocha
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PrankSia
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MusicJesse Moynihan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hungy GhostTim Rauch
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mushroom ParkSix 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
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (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
Trolls World Tour
as Clampers Buttonwillow (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
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Monsters University
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Past Life
as Ragman
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. Betsy Sodaro 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
14 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
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thelma the Unicorn
as Cow (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hubie Halloween
as Aurora's Wife Bunny
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Next Gen
as Toilet / Gate / Hairbrush (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Clampers Buttonwillow (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Jo Serpent / Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Member (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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