Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10047
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Dot-Marie Jones represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Dot-Marie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dot-Marie Jones appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dot-Marie. The Boondock Saints is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 horror, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicholas Stoller, Eric Appel, Matt Shapira and others, Dot-Marie Jones 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.
The Boondock Saints (1999) as Rozengurtle · Breeder (2026) as Patti · Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) as Mama Bear
Career snapshot
Ranked #10047 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1999–2026
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Boondock Saints
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Boondock Saints
Most frequent director
Nicholas Stoller
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nicholas Stoller
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.3
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
1990s
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Boondock Saints — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Boondock Saints.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 4.01 film |
| Action | 7.31 film | 5.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.31 film | 5.81 film | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | 5.35 films |
| Crime | 7.31 film | — | 4.51 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.61 film |
| Horror | — | 5.81 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rozengurtle. 7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2026Breeder
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Patti.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Rozengurtle
Directed by Unknown
as Cherry
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
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
Patti
Breeder (2026)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Patti gives Dot-Marie Jones a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rozengurtle
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Performance score7.2
The Boondock Saints asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rozengurtle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cherry
Bros (2022)
Performance score6.8
Bros asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cherry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mama Bear
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Performance score6.6
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mama Bear 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 Patti
Start here. Breeder is the clearest statement of what Dot-Marie Jones does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dot-Marie 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 Boondock Saints (1999)
Same director as Breeder, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Bros (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The Boondock Saints — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Bros but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tripping (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jocelyn DeBoer
Director
1 film together
Notably Greener Grass
Rob Zombie
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 from Hell
Matt Shapira
Director
1 film together
Notably The Swing of Things
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Bros
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrosJocelyn DeBoer
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Greener GrassRob Zombie
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 from HellMatt Shapira
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Swing of ThingsSix 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
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bros
as Cherry
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
as Mama Bear
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Breeder
as Patti
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. Dot-Marie Jones 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
27 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bros
as Cherry
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Boondock Saints
as Rozengurtle
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
3 from Hell
as Slackjaw
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Tripping
as Lisa
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Swing of Things
as Finley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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