Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1019
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rob Schneider represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Rob is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rob Schneider appears in 35 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rob. The One and Only Dick Gregory is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Newacheck, Josh Safdie, David Wachtenheim and others, Rob Schneider 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 One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) as Self · Leo (2023) as Principal (voice) · 50 First Dates (2004) as Ula
Career snapshot
Ranked #1019 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
35
1992–2026
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
The One and Only Dick Gregory
Most frequent director
Frank Coraci
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Frank Coraci
Most common genre
Comedy
31 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.5
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
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Kill Tony: Once Upon a Time in Texas, Happy Gilmore 2, Adam Sandler: Love You — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
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. Muppets from Space, Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 6.51 film | 6.62 films | — | 6.61 film |
| Action | 6.13 films | 5.82 films | 5.52 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.35 films | 6.311 films | 5.54 films | 6.311 films |
| Crime | 6.12 films | 6.72 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 6.34 films | — | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1992Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cedric.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The One and Only Dick Gregory
7.9 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
2026Kill Tony: Once Upon a Time in Texas
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
35 of 35 films
as Principal (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
as Ula
Directed by Peter Segal
as Big Stan
Directed by Rob Schneider
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Self
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Rob Schneider a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Principal (voice)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.5
Leo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Principal (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Larry Bublé
Daddy Daughter Trip (2022)
Performance score7.5
Daddy Daughter Trip asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Larry Bublé is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ula
50 First Dates (2004)
Performance score7.4
50 First Dates asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ula 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 Self
Start here. The One and Only Dick Gregory is the clearest statement of what Rob Schneider does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rob 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.
50 First Dates (2004)
A deliberate change of key after The One and Only Dick Gregory — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Big Stan (2007)
Keeps the comedy register of 50 First Dates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Daddy Daughter Trip (2022)
Same director as Big Stan, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Leo (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Daddy Daughter Trip but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dennis Dugan
Director
4 films together
Notably Big Daddy
Frank Coraci
Director
4 films together
Notably Click
Steven Brill
Director
3 films together
Notably Hubie Halloween
Peter Segal
Director
2 films together
Notably 50 First Dates
Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together
Notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Tyler Spindel
Director
2 films together
Notably The Wrong Missy
Rob Schneider
Director
2 films together
Notably Daddy Daughter Trip
Marco Brambilla
Director
1 film together
Notably Demolition Man
Danny Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Judge Dredd
Tsui Hark
Director
1 film together
Notably Knock Off
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets from Space
Tom Brady
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hot Chick
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Bedtime Stories
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Josh Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Adam Sandler: Love You
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Gilmore 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dennis Dugan
Director
4 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Big DaddyFrank Coraci
Director
4 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ClickSteven Brill
Director
3 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hubie HalloweenRob Schneider
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Daddy Daughter TripPeter Segal
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
50 First DatesChris Columbus
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Home Alone 2: Lost in New YorkTyler Spindel
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Wrong MissyDavid Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoMarco Brambilla
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Demolition ManKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy Gilmore 2Tom Brady
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hot ChickJosh Safdie
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adam Sandler: Love YouAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bedtime StoriesTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets from SpaceDanny Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Judge DreddMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deuce Bigalow: Male GigoloTsui Hark
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knock OffSix 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 One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bedtime Stories
as Chief Running Mouth / Pickpocket
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 One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pixels
as Q*Bert (voice) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
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. Rob Schneider 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
34 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
31 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 One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Demolition Man
as Erwin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bedtime Stories
as Chief Running Mouth / Pickpocket
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hubie Halloween
as Richie Hartman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The One and Only Dick Gregory
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Ridiculous 6
as Ramon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Longest Yard
as Punky
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Judge Dredd
as Herman 'Fergee' Ferguson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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