Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1836
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tig Notaro 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.
Tig Notaro appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tig. Zootopia 2 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 romance, western, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Judd Apatow, Yulin Kuang, Sia and others, Tig Notaro 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.
Zootopia 2 (2025) as Big Tig (voice) · Instant Family (2018) as Sharon · Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) as Self (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1836 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2014–2027
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Zootopia 2
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Zootopia 2
Most frequent director
Sia
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Sia
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Transparent: Musicale Finale, Lucy in the Sky, Dog Days — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Transparent: Musicale Finale, Lucy in the Sky, Dog Days.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 6.43 films | 6.03 films |
| Action | — | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 5.01 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.74 films | 4.810 films |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 5.82 films | 3.76 films |
| Horror | — | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Walk of Shame
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Impound Woman.
Career peak
2018Instant Family
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2025Zootopia 2
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027Beach Read
The current state of the argument.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Sharon
Directed by Unknown
as Big Tig (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Professor (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
Sharon
Instant Family (2018)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sharon gives Tig Notaro a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Big Tig (voice)
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Performance score7.5
Zootopia 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Big Tig (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self (uncredited)
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)
Performance score7.2
Come See Me in the Good Light 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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Professor (voice)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Performance score6.8
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Professor (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Sharon
Start here. Instant Family is the clearest statement of what Tig Notaro does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tig 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.
Together Together (2021)
Same director as Instant Family, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Together Together but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Zootopia 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sia
Director
2 films together
Notably Music
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk of Shame
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Days
Noah Hawley
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy in the Sky
Joey Soloway
Director
1 film together
Notably Transparent: Musicale Finale
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Army of the Dead
Albert Calleros
Director
1 film together
Notably Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Linda Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
Aline Brosh McKenna
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Place or Mine
Stephanie Allynne
Director
1 film together
Notably Am I OK?
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Zootopia 2
Ryan White
Director
1 film together
Notably Come See Me in the Good Light
Yulin Kuang
Director
1 film together
Notably Beach Read
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Comeback King
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sia
Director
2 films together · 2.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MusicByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zootopia 2Ryan White
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come See Me in the Good LightAlbert 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 UniverseJoey Soloway
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transparent: Musicale FinaleKen 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 DaysStephanie Allynne
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Am I OK?Aline Brosh McKenna
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Place or MineZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Army of the DeadSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk of ShameNoah Hawley
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucy in the SkyLinda Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ CelebrationJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Comeback KingYulin Kuang
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beach ReadSix 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
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (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
Lucy in the Sky
as Kate Mounier
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Instant Family
as Sharon
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. Tig Notaro 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
14 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
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lucy in the Sky
as Kate Mounier
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zootopia 2
as Big Tig (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Army of the Dead
as Marianne Peters
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Am I OK?
as Sheila
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Glitter & Doom
as Fiasco
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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