Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1039
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jessica DiCicco represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Jessica is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jessica DiCicco appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jessica. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 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, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Horvath, Pierre Coffin, Darin McGowan and others, Jessica DiCicco 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 Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) as Mario's Mom (voice) · Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) as Desdemona Gunderson (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1039 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1990–2026
Career length
36 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Most frequent director
Aaron Horvath
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Aaron Horvath
Most common genre
Animation
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.9
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
7.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Godfather Part III — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.4
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 Godfather Part III.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.51 film | — | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.81 film | — | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.51 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.71 film | 7.33 films | 7.29 films |
| Crime | 7.51 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Child (as Jessica Di Ciccio).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
8.3 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
The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (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 Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Mario's Mom (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Desdemona Gunderson (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Lynn / Lucy (voice)
Directed by Darin McGowan
as Scouts (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
Additional Voices (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Jessica DiCicco a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mario's Mom (voice)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Performance score7.6
The Super Mario Bros. Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mario's Mom (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Desdemona Gunderson (voice)
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
Performance score7.6
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Desdemona Gunderson (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lynn / Lucy (voice)
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice (2025)
Performance score7.3
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lynn / Lucy (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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the clearest statement of what Jessica DiCicco does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jessica 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.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Minion Scouts (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Minion Scouts but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of The Super Mario Bros. Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together
Notably The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably The Godfather Part III
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Over the Hedge
Bradley Raymond
Director
1 film together
Notably Pixie Hollow Games
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen II
Cinco Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More Volume 1
Matt Danner
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Kyle Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
Darin McGowan
Director
1 film together
Notably A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
Pierre Coffin
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & Monsters
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Horvath
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Super Mario Galaxy MovieMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's ShowdownFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Godfather Part IIIDarin McGowan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or NiceChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frozen IIKyle Marshall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to Spy: A Loud House MovieCinco Paul
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More Volume 1Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2Bradley Raymond
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pixie Hollow GamesPierre Coffin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & MonstersKarey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over the HedgeMatt Danner
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises AgainSix 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 Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Godfather Part III
as Child (as Jessica Di Ciccio)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (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. Jessica DiCicco 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
36 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
17 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
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Godfather Part III
as Child (as Jessica Di Ciccio)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
as Desdemona Gunderson (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie
as Lynn / Lucy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
as Mario's Mom (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Minions & Monsters
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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