Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2332
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eduardo Franco 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.
Eduardo Franco appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eduardo. When We Kill the Creators is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Daniel Chong, Tyree Dillihay, John Hamburg and others, Eduardo Franco 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.
When We Kill the Creators (2022) as PA · Hoppers (2026) as Loaf (voice) · GOAT (2026) as Daryl (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2332 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
When We Kill the Creators
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
When We Kill the Creators
Most frequent director
Daniel Chong
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Daniel Chong
Most common genre
Comedy
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Wyrm, Booksmart, The Package — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Wyrm, Booksmart, The Package.
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 | — | 10.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.63 films | 5.812 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 3.93 films |
| Horror | — | 5.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018The Package
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jeremy Abelar.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Focker-in-Law
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.
17 of 17 films
as Loaf (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Daryl (voice)
Directed by Tyree Dillihay
as Trevin (voice)
Directed by Kirk DeMicco
as Daniel James 'DJ' Catnip (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
PA
When We Kill the Creators (2022)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. PA gives Eduardo Franco a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Loaf (voice)
Hoppers (2026)
Performance score8.1
Hoppers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Loaf (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Daryl (voice)
GOAT (2026)
Performance score7.6
GOAT asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Daryl (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trevin (voice)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
Performance score7.1
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trevin (voice) 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 PA
Start here. When We Kill the Creators is the clearest statement of what Eduardo Franco does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eduardo 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.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
A deliberate change of key after When We Kill the Creators — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hoppers (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
GOAT (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Hoppers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Package
Olivia Wilde
Director
1 film together
Notably Booksmart
Jeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Binge
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Superintelligence
Jeff Rosenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably We Broke Up
Cynthia Mort
Director
1 film together
Notably When We Kill the Creators
Jordan VanDina
Director
1 film together
Notably It's a Wonderful Binge
Kirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together
Notably Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Thelma the Unicorn
Kyle Mooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Y2K
Jake Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Self Reliance
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Focker-in-Law
Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together
Notably GOAT
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably Hoppers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Cynthia Mort
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When We Kill the CreatorsDaniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoppersTyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GOATKirk DeMicco
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ruby Gillman, Teenage KrakenOlivia Wilde
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BooksmartJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thelma the UnicornJake Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Self RelianceJeff Rosenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Broke UpBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperintelligenceJake Szymanski
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PackageJeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BingeKyle Mooney
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Y2KJordan VanDina
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's a Wonderful BingeJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Focker-in-LawSix 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
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wyrm
as Blake
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
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. Eduardo Franco 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
15 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
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thelma the Unicorn
as Goon #2 (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Thelma the Unicorn
as Goon #2 (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
When We Kill the Creators
as PA
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hoppers
as Loaf (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
as Daniel James 'DJ' Catnip (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Trevin (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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