Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4730
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Cheryl Hines 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.
Cheryl Hines appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Cheryl. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 science fiction, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Jerry Ciccoritti, Craig Johnson and others, Cheryl Hines 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.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) as Momblank (voice) · About Fate (2022) as Judy · Popular Theory (2024) as Tammy Page / Aunt Tammy
Career snapshot
Ranked #4730 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2004–2024
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Most frequent director
Barry Sonnenfeld
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Barry Sonnenfeld
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Popular Theory, About Fate, Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. The Ugly Truth, Space Chimps, Waitress.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.71 film | 5.52 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | — | — | 7.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.06 films | 5.94 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 6.34 films | 6.12 films | 7.51 film |
| Horror | — | 5.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Along Came Polly
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Catering Manager.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
7.6 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
2024Popular Theory
The current state of the argument, as Tammy Page / Aunt Tammy.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Momblank (voice)
Directed by Francisco Ruiz Velasco
as Tammy Page / Aunt Tammy
Directed by Unknown
as Mrs. Jacobs
Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
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
Momblank (voice)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Momblank (voice) gives Cheryl Hines a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Judy
About Fate (2022)
Performance score7.3
About Fate asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tammy Page / Aunt Tammy
Popular Theory (2024)
Performance score7.1
Popular Theory asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tammy Page / Aunt Tammy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Jacobs
Turkey Drop (2019)
Performance score7.1
Turkey Drop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Jacobs 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 Momblank (voice)
Start here. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is the clearest statement of what Cheryl Hines does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Cheryl 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.
Turkey Drop (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Adrienne (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Turkey Drop — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
About Fate (2022)
Same director as Adrienne, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Popular Theory (2024)
Same director as About Fate, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
2 films together
Notably RV
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Along Came Polly
Angela Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Herbie Fully Loaded
Adrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Waitress
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Chimps
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ugly Truth
Andrew Renzi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Benefactor
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bad Moms Christmas
Craig Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wilson
Jerry Ciccoritti
Director
1 film together
Notably Turkey Drop
Francisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Barry Sonnenfeld
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
RVFrancisco Ruiz Velasco
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trollhunters: Rise of the TitansJerry Ciccoritti
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Turkey DropAdrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WaitressRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ugly TruthJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Bad Moms ChristmasCraig Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WilsonJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Along Came PollyAngela Robinson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Herbie Fully LoadedKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space ChimpsAndrew Renzi
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BenefactorSix 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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (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. Cheryl Hines 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
20 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
12 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
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Sally
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Momblank (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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