Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2554
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Selenis Leyva 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.
Selenis Leyva appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Selenis. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 action, drama, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael B. Jordan, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Jon Watts and others, Selenis Leyva 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.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Ms. Warren · Creed III (2023) as Laura Chavez · Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) as Additional Voice (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2554 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2009–2023
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Most frequent director
Michael B. Jordan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael B. Jordan
Most common genre
Adventure
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
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. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.01 film | 6.82 films |
| Action | — | 7.61 film | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 6.22 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voice (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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
2023Crater
The current state of the argument, as Maria.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Ms. Warren
Directed by Jon Watts
as Laura Chavez
Directed by Michael B. Jordan
as Additional Voice (voice)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
as Maria
Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
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
Ms. Warren
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ms. Warren gives Selenis Leyva a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Laura Chavez
Creed III (2023)
Performance score7.0
Creed III asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laura Chavez is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voice (voice)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Performance score6.8
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voice (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rosa Diaz
Breaking (2022)
Performance score6.7
Breaking asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rosa Diaz 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 Ms. Warren
Start here. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest statement of what Selenis Leyva does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Selenis 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.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Keeps the adventure register of Spider-Man: Homecoming but asks for a colder reading of it.
Breaking (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Creed III (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Breaking but asks for a colder reading of it.
Crater (2023)
Keeps the action register of Creed III but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Michael Patrick King
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex and the City 2
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Director
1 film together
Notably Crater
Michael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed III
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingMichael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creed IIICarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursKyle Patrick Alvarez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CraterChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicMichael Patrick King
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex and the City 2Six 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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Epic
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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ice Age: Continental Drift
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
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. Selenis Leyva 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Epic
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sex and the City 2
as Teacher
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Ms. Warren
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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