Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11139
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tiya Sircar 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.
Tiya Sircar appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tiya. Ghosted is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 romance, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dexter Fletcher, Kevin Wotton, Kate Miles Melville and others, Tiya Sircar 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.
Ghosted (2023) as Patti · Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014) as Sabine Wren (voice) · Friends with Benefits (2011) as Hostess
Career snapshot
Ranked #11139 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2009–2023
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Ghosted
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Most frequent director
Dexter Fletcher
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Dexter Fletcher
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.3
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Ghosted — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
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
2020s
6.9
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. Hotel for Dogs, 17 Again.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.91 film | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.43 films | 6.91 film |
| Romance | — | 6.42 films | 6.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Hotel for Dogs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Marianne.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
6.9 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
2023Ghosted
The current state of the argument, as Patti.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Sabine Wren (voice)
Directed by Steward Lee
as Patti
Directed by Dexter Fletcher
as Kate Bradley
Directed by Kate Miles Melville
as Kate Prescott (voice)
Directed by Kevin Wotton
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
Sabine Wren (voice)
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sabine Wren (voice) gives Tiya Sircar a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patti
Ghosted (2023)
Performance score6.8
Ghosted asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patti is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kate Bradley
Good Sam (2019)
Performance score6.8
Good Sam asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate Bradley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kate Prescott (voice)
Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas (2019)
Performance score6.7
Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate Prescott (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 Sabine Wren (voice)
Start here. Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion is the clearest statement of what Tiya Sircar does — accessible, 44 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tiya 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.
Friends with Benefits (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Sam (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Friends with Benefits but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Good Sam — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ghosted (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably 17 Again
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel for Dogs
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends with Benefits
Barry Cook
Director
1 film together
Notably Walking with Dinosaurs
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Internship
Steward Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Kate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Sam
Kevin Wotton
Director
1 film together
Notably Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosted
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostedSteward Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of RebellionWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends with BenefitsKevin Wotton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of ChristmasBurr Steers
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
17 AgainShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternshipBarry Cook
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walking with DinosaursThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel for DogsKate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good SamSix 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
Ghosted
as Patti
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Walking with Dinosaurs
as Juniper (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
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hotel for Dogs
as Marianne
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (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. Tiya Sircar 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Walking with Dinosaurs
as Juniper (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
17 Again
as Samantha
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
as Sabine Wren (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Good Sam
as Kate Bradley
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
17 Again
as Samantha
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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