Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#130178
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Tonico Pereira is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tonico Pereira appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tonico. O Velho Fusca is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Felipe Joffily, Tonico Pereira 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.
O Velho Fusca (2026) as Vovô · My Uncle José (2021) as Diretor do Marista (voice) · Boil (2023) as Tibério
Career snapshot
Ranked #130178 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2021–2026
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
O Velho Fusca
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
O Velho Fusca
Most frequent director
Felipe Joffily
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Felipe Joffily
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
0h 45m
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
2020s
5.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. O Velho Fusca, Boil, Last Sunday — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.2
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
4.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. O Velho Fusca, Boil, Last Sunday.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.33 films |
| Comedy | 6.32 films |
| Horror | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2021Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza
Where our catalogue meets this career.
Highest rated performance
2021My Uncle José
6.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2026O Velho Fusca
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Vovô.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Abiatar
Directed by Unknown
as Tibério
Directed by Felipe Joffily
Directed by Unknown
as Diretor do Marista (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Vovô
O Velho Fusca (2026)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vovô gives Tonico Pereira a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Abiatar
Last Sunday (2022)
Performance score6.7
Last Sunday asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abiatar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tibério
Boil (2023)
Performance score6.5
Boil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tibério is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza
Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza (2021)
Performance score6.5
Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Vovô
Start here. O Velho Fusca is the clearest statement of what Tonico Pereira does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tonico 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.
Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza (2021)
Same director as O Velho Fusca, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Uncle José (2021)
Same director as Prateados: A Vida em Tempos de Madureza, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Last Sunday (2022)
Same director as My Uncle José, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Boil (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Last Sunday — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Felipe Joffily
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoilSix 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
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (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
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (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
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
O Velho Fusca
as Vovô
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. Tonico Pereira 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Last Sunday
as Abiatar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
O Segredo de Sara
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Last Sunday
as Abiatar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
O Velho Fusca
as Vovô
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Last Sunday
as Abiatar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Uncle José
as Diretor do Marista (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
O Segredo de Sara
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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