Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#545
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rashida Jones 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.
Rashida Jones appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rashida. Klaus 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Jason Hand, Morgan Sackett and others, Rashida 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.
Klaus (2019) as Alva (voice) · Inside Out (2015) as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice) · The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation (2020) as Ann Perkins
Career snapshot
Ranked #545 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Klaus
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Klaus
Most frequent director
Sofia Coppola
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Sofia Coppola
Most common genre
Comedy
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 28m
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
6.3
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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Klaus, Spies in Disguise, Don't Come Back from the Moon — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 19 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. I Love You, Man, The Ten, Little Black Book.
Most productive era
2010s
19 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.31 film | 6.56 films | 5.92 films |
| Action | — | 6.63 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.63 films | 6.614 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | 5.92 films | 6.34 films | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dr. Rachel Keyes.
Highest rated performance
2015Inside Out
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019Klaus
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Hexed
The current state of the argument, as Alice Doe (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.
27 of 27 films
as Alva (voice)
Directed by Sergio Pablos
as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Marcy Kappel (voice)
Directed by Troy Quane
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
Alva (voice)
Klaus (2019)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alva (voice) gives Rashida Jones a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ann Perkins
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation (2020)
Performance score8.2
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ann Perkins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ann Perkins
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020)
Performance score7.9
A Parks and Recreation Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ann Perkins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
Inside Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cool Girl's Emotions (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 Alva (voice)
Start here. Klaus is the clearest statement of what Rashida Jones does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rashida 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.
Inside Out (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Klaus but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spies in Disguise (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Inside Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Spies in Disguise — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sofia Coppola
Director
2 films together
Notably On the Rocks
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Black Book
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ten
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love You, Man
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Social Network
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Cop Out
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends with Benefits
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Idiot Brother
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppets
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably Celeste & Jesse Forever
James Griffiths
Director
1 film together
Notably Cuban Fury
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Inside Out
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Scott Mosier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Grinch
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Troy Quane
Director
1 film together
Notably Spies in Disguise
Sergio Pablos
Director
1 film together
Notably Klaus
Morgan Sackett
Director
1 film together
Notably A Parks and Recreation Special
Jason Hand
Director
1 film together
Notably Hexed
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Blink of an Eye
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sofia Coppola
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
On the RocksSergio Pablos
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KlausPete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inside OutMorgan Sackett
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Parks and Recreation SpecialTroy Quane
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spies in DisguiseDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Social NetworkScott Mosier
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GrinchJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MuppetsWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends with BenefitsJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love You, ManLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Celeste & Jesse ForeverJames Griffiths
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cuban FuryJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Idiot BrotherDavid Frankel
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 Big YearScott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Blink of an EyeKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cop OutNick Hurran
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Black BookDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenJason Hand
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HexedSix 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
Klaus
as Alva (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
Inside Out
as Cool Girl's Emotions (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
Inside Out
as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Friends with Benefits
as Maddison (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Klaus
as Alva (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. Rashida 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
22 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
19 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
Klaus
as Alva (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spies in Disguise
as Marcy Kappel (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Inside Out
as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Grinch
as Donna Who (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spies in Disguise
as Marcy Kappel (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spies in Disguise
as Marcy Kappel (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inside Out
as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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