Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#818
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mona Marshall represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Mona is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mona Marshall appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mona. Inside Out is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Genndy Tartakovsky, Trey Parker and others, Mona Marshall 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.
Inside Out (2015) as Additional Voices (voice) · Monsters, Inc. (2001) as Additional Voices (voice) · Tangled (2010) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #818 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
1996–2026
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Inside Out
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Inside Out
Most frequent director
Trey Parker
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Trey Parker
Most common genre
Animation
26 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
6.9
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
6.8
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Toy Story 5, Fixed, South Park: The End of Obesity — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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 Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 7.21 film | — | 8.11 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.84 films | 6.79 films | 7.27 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Monsters, Inc.
8.1 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
2026Toy Story 5
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.
26 of 26 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Sheila Broflovski (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Sheila Broflovski / Mrs. Tweak / Linda Stotch (voice)
Directed by Trey Parker
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)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Mona Marshall a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Performance score7.8
Monsters, Inc. 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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Sheila Broflovski (voice)
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Performance score7.6
South Park: Joining the Panderverse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sheila Broflovski (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)
Tangled (2010)
Performance score7.6
Tangled 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Inside Out is the clearest statement of what Mona Marshall does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mona 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, Inc. (2001)
Same director as Inside Out, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Tangled (2010)
Keeps the family register of Monsters, Inc. but asks for a colder reading of it.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Keeps the animation register of Tangled but asks for a colder reading of it.
South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Same director as South Park: Joining the Panderverse, 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.
Trey Parker
Director
4 films together
Notably South Park: Joining the Panderverse
Chris Renaud
Director
3 films together
Notably Despicable Me 2
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Pete Docter
Director
2 films together
Notably Inside Out
Kyle Balda
Director
2 films together
Notably Despicable Me 3
Kirk Wise
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunchback of Notre Dame
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably Treasure Planet
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably Chicken Little
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Tangled
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen
Scott Mosier
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More 2
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Trey Parker
Director
4 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
South Park: Joining the PanderverseGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationChris Renaud
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Despicable Me 2Pete Docter
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
Inside OutKyle Balda
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
Despicable Me 3Byron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TangledJohn Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Treasure PlanetChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrozenAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 5Scott Mosier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More 2Kirk Wise
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunchback of Notre DamePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chicken LittleSix 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
Inside Out
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
Frozen
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
Monsters, Inc.
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
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
Inside Out
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. Mona Marshall 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
30 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
26 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
Monsters, Inc.
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Frozen
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tangled
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Despicable Me 3
as Additional Voice (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Frozen
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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