Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17776
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jeannie Tirado 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.
Jeannie Tirado appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeannie. Soul 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 versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kerry Shawcross, Pete Docter, Salvador Espinosa and others, Jeannie Tirado 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.
Soul (2020) as Principal Arroyo (voice) · You've Got This (2020) as Ceci (voice) · Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023) as Green Lantern (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #17776 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2023
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Soul
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Soul
Most frequent director
Kerry Shawcross
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kerry Shawcross
Most common genre
Animation
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.4
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
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two, Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One, Soul — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | — | 8.21 film |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gabriela / Teacher (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Soul
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
2023Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
The current state of the argument, as Green Lantern (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.
5 of 5 films
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Ceci (voice)
Directed by Salvador Espinosa
as Green Lantern (voice)
Directed by Kerry Shawcross
as Green Lantern / Jessica Cruz (voice)
Directed by Kerry Shawcross
as Gabriela / Teacher (voice)
Directed by Sol Choi
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
Principal Arroyo (voice)
Soul (2020)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Principal Arroyo (voice) gives Jeannie Tirado a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ceci (voice)
You've Got This (2020)
Performance score7.1
You've Got This asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ceci (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Green Lantern (voice)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
Performance score6.6
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Green Lantern (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Green Lantern / Jessica Cruz (voice)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (2023)
Performance score6.5
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Green Lantern / Jessica Cruz (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 Principal Arroyo (voice)
Start here. Soul is the clearest statement of what Jeannie Tirado does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeannie 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.
Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire (2019)
Keeps the family register of Soul but asks for a colder reading of it.
You've Got This (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
A deliberate change of key after You've Got This — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (2023)
Same director as Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One, 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.
Kerry Shawcross
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One
Sol Choi
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
Salvador Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably You've Got This
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Soul
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kerry Shawcross
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part OnePete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SoulSalvador Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You've Got ThisSol Choi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Rising: Playing with FireSix 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
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (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
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (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
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (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. Jeannie Tirado 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
4 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
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two
as Green Lantern / Jessica Cruz (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Soul
as Principal Arroyo (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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