Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13170
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Xosha Roquemore 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.
Xosha Roquemore appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Xosha. The Butler is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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, science fiction, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Julius Onah, Chelsea Peretti, McG and others, Xosha Roquemore 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.
The Butler (2013) as Foxy (uncredited) · The Disaster Artist (2017) as Actress #3 · Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) as Shanice James
Career snapshot
Ranked #13170 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2013–2025
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Butler
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Butler
Most frequent director
Julius Onah
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Julius Onah
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Disaster Artist, All Nighter, The Butler — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. The Disaster Artist, All Nighter, The Butler.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 6.83 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013The Butler
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Foxy (uncredited). 7.3 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
2025Captain America: Brave New World
The current state of the argument, as Leila Taylor.
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 Foxy (uncredited)
Directed by Lee Daniels
as Shanice James
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee
as Leila Taylor
Directed by Julius Onah
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
Foxy (uncredited)
The Butler (2013)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Foxy (uncredited) gives Xosha Roquemore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Actress #3
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Performance score7.0
The Disaster Artist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Actress #3 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Emma
Who Invited Charlie? (2023)
Performance score6.8
Who Invited Charlie? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emma is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shanice James
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Performance score6.7
Space Jam: A New Legacy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shanice James 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 Foxy (uncredited)
Start here. The Butler is the clearest statement of what Xosha Roquemore does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Xosha 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 Disaster Artist (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Butler but asks for a colder reading of it.
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The Disaster Artist but asks for a colder reading of it.
Who Invited Charlie? (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Space Jam: A New Legacy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Who Invited Charlie? — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lee Daniels
Director
1 film together
Notably The Butler
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Jam: A New Legacy
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Switch
Chelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together
Notably First Time Female Director
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: Brave New World
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lee Daniels
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ButlerJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Jam: A New LegacyMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family SwitchJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: Brave New WorldChelsea Peretti
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First Time Female DirectorSix 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
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
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. Xosha Roquemore 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
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Captain America: Brave New World
as Leila Taylor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Family Switch
as Carrie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Butler
as Foxy (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain America: Brave New World
as Leila Taylor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
All Nighter
as Megan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
First Time Female Director
as Star
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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