Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2151
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Toks Olagundoye 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.
Toks Olagundoye appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Toks. Steven Universe: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Suriano, Albert Calleros, Jos Humphrey and others, Toks Olagundoye 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.
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) as Nanefua Pizza (voice) · The Death of Superman (2019) as Cat Grant (voice) · Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022) as Krang Two / Military Woman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2151 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2018–2024
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Steven Universe: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Steven Universe: The Movie
Most frequent director
Jake Castorena
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Castorena
Most common genre
Science Fiction
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.1
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Steven Universe: The Movie, Reign of the Supermen, The Death of Superman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Steven Universe: The Movie, Reign of the Supermen, The Death of Superman.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.32 films | — |
| Action | 7.13 films | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.43 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Dog Days
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nina.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Steven Universe: The Movie
7.7 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
2024ClearMind
The current state of the argument, as Shannon.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Nanefua Pizza (voice)
Directed by Rebecca Sugar
as Cat Grant (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Krang Two / Military Woman (voice)
Directed by Andy Suriano
as Cat Grant (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Campaign Aide / Butt-Head Fantasy Woman #2 & #3 (voice)
Directed by Albert Calleros
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
Nanefua Pizza (voice)
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nanefua Pizza (voice) gives Toks Olagundoye a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cat Grant (voice)
The Death of Superman (2019)
Performance score7.3
The Death of Superman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cat Grant (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Krang Two / Military Woman (voice)
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)
Performance score7.2
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Krang Two / Military Woman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cat Grant (voice)
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Performance score6.9
Reign of the Supermen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cat Grant (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 Nanefua Pizza (voice)
Start here. Steven Universe: The Movie is the clearest statement of what Toks Olagundoye does — accessible, 83 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Toks 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.
The Death of Superman (2019)
Keeps the animation register of Steven Universe: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Same director as The Death of Superman, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)
Keeps the action register of Reign of the Supermen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together
Notably The Death of Superman
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Days
Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together
Notably Steven Universe: The Movie
Jos Humphrey
Director
1 film together
Notably Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal
Albert Calleros
Director
1 film together
Notably Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Andy Suriano
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Death of SupermanRebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steven Universe: The MovieAndy Suriano
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The MovieAlbert Calleros
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the UniverseJos Humphrey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to StealKen Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog DaysSix 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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dog Days
as Nina
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (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. Toks Olagundoye 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Death of Superman
as Cat Grant (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal
as Countess Cleo (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Nanefua Pizza (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Death of Superman
as Cat Grant (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Death and Return of Superman
as Cat Grant (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Reign of the Supermen
as Cat Grant (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Death of Superman
as Cat Grant (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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