Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#887
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tracy Morgan represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Tracy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tracy Morgan appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tracy. Swapped is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nathan Greno, Angus Wall, Beth McCarthy-Miller and others, Tracy Morgan 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.
Swapped (2026) as Boogle / Firewolf (voice) · Will & Harper (2024) as Self (uncredited) · Scoob! (2020) as Captain Caveman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #887 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
Swapped
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Swapped
Most frequent director
Carlos Saldanha
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Carlos Saldanha
Most common genre
Comedy
25 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Swapped, AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy, Being Eddie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. G-Force, Deep in the Valley, Superhero Movie.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.22 films | 5.62 films | — |
| Action | 5.74 films | 5.92 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.77 films | 5.912 films | 6.76 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 5.32 films | — |
| Romance | 4.91 film | 5.53 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Pumpkin Escobar.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Swapped
8.6 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
2026AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
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.
30 of 30 films
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
Directed by Nathan Greno
as Self (uncredited)
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
as Captain Caveman (voice)
Directed by Tony Cervone
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
Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
Swapped (2026)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Boogle / Firewolf (voice) gives Tracy Morgan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (uncredited)
Will & Harper (2024)
Performance score7.2
Will & Harper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Captain Caveman (voice)
Scoob! (2020)
Performance score6.9
Scoob! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Caveman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tracy Jordan
30 Rock: A One-Time Special (2020)
Performance score6.8
30 Rock: A One-Time Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tracy Jordan 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 Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
Start here. Swapped is the clearest statement of what Tracy Morgan does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tracy 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.
Scoob! (2020)
Keeps the family register of Swapped but asks for a colder reading of it.
30 Rock: A One-Time Special (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Scoob! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Will & Harper (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of 30 Rock: A One-Time Special but asks for a colder reading of it.
Being Eddie (2025)
Keeps the documentary register of Will & Harper but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kevin Smith
Director
2 films together
Notably Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Chris Rock
Director
2 films together
Notably Top Five
Carlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together
Notably Rio
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Longest Yard
Craig Mazin
Director
1 film together
Notably Superhero Movie
Neil LaBute
Director
1 film together
Notably Death at a Funeral
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Guys
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Accidental Love
Jonathan Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably The Night Before
Richie Keen
Director
1 film together
Notably Fist Fight
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably What Men Want
Tony Cervone
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoob!
Oz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
Nas
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Watching Video Music Box
Craig Brewer
Director
1 film together
Notably Coming 2 America
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Will & Harper
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Angus Wall
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Eddie
Nathan Greno
Director
1 film together
Notably Swapped
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Carlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RioKevin Smith
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jay and Silent Bob Strike BackChris Rock
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Top FiveNathan Greno
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwappedJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Will & HarperTony Cervone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scoob!Angus Wall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being EddiePeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Longest YardBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertNas
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Watching Video Music BoxCraig Brewer
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coming 2 AmericaOz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Rock: A One-Time SpecialAdam McKay
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 Other GuysAdam 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
What Men WantJonathan Levine
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Night BeforeRichie Keen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fist FightNeil LaBute
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death at a FuneralCraig Mazin
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superhero MovieDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Accidental LoveSix 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
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (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
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (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
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Superhero Movie
as Professor Xavier
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (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. Tracy Morgan 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
25 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
25 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
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scoob!
as Captain Caveman (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Swapped
as Boogle / Firewolf (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
as Pumpkin Escobar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Longest Yard
as Ms. Tucker
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
30 Rock: A One-Time Special
as Tracy Jordan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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