Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1982
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Erica Cerra 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.
Erica Cerra appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Erica. A Castle of Our Own is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 romance, tv movie, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kay Metchie, Matt Danner, Luke Cormican and others, Erica Cerra 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.
A Castle of Our Own (2026) as Marley · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025) as Susan (voice) · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022) as Susan (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1982 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
A Castle of Our Own
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
A Castle of Our Own
Most frequent director
Luke Cormican
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Luke Cormican
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A Castle of Our Own, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. Man About Town, Blade: Trinity.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.21 film | — | — |
| Action | 5.91 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.21 film | — | 6.74 films |
| Romance | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Horror | 5.91 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Blade: Trinity
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Goth Vixen Wannabe.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Marley.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Susan (voice)
Directed by Matt Danner
as Susan (voice)
Directed by Luke Cormican
as Susan (voice)
Directed by Luke Cormican
as Susan (voice)
Directed by Swinton O. Scott III
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
Marley
A Castle of Our Own (2026)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marley gives Erica Cerra a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Susan (voice)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025)
Performance score7.2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susan (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Susan (voice)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)
Performance score7.1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susan (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Susan (voice)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
Performance score7.0
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susan (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 Marley
Start here. A Castle of Our Own is the clearest statement of what Erica Cerra does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Erica 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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)
A deliberate change of key after A Castle of Our Own — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Diary of a Wimpy Kid but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023)
Same director as Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Luke Cormican
Director
2 films together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
David S. Goyer
Director
1 film together
Notably Blade: Trinity
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably Man About Town
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Dean Israelite
Director
1 film together
Notably Power Rangers
Swinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Matt Danner
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Kay Metchie
Director
1 film together
Notably A Castle of Our Own
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Luke Cormican
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick RulesKay Metchie
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Castle of Our OwnMatt Danner
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last StrawSwinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy KidDean Israelite
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Power RangersChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefDavid S. Goyer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blade: TrinityMike Binder
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Man About TownSix 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
A Castle of Our Own
as Marley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Hera
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Castle of Our Own
as Marley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Hera
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Castle of Our Own
as Marley
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. Erica Cerra 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
22 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
5 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
A Castle of Our Own
as Marley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Intruder
as Jillian Richards
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Hera
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Hera
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Power Rangers
as Trini's Mom
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Power Rangers
as Trini's Mom
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Man About Town
as Sela
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
as Susan (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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