Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2887
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eugene Cordero 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.
Eugene Cordero appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eugene. Influenced 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 comedy, drama, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Heffernan, Michael Cusack, Jay Chandrasekhar and others, Eugene Cordero 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.
Influenced (2026) as Yuki · The High Note (2020) as Seth · The Kings of Summer (2013) as Colin
Career snapshot
Ranked #2887 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Influenced
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Influenced
Most frequent director
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Influenced, Quasi, The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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 Mule, Kong: Skull Island, Ghostbusters.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 6.53 films | 6.02 films |
| Action | 5.92 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.86 films | 6.85 films |
| Crime | 6.91 film | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Furry Vengeance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cheese.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Influenced
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. The current state of the argument, as Yuki.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Yuki
Directed by Unknown
as Seth
Directed by Nisha Ganatra
as Luis Rocha
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Reles
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
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
Yuki
Influenced (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Yuki gives Eugene Cordero a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Seth
The High Note (2020)
Performance score6.9
The High Note asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Seth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Colin
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Performance score6.9
The Kings of Summer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Colin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luis Rocha
The Mule (2018)
Performance score6.8
The Mule asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luis Rocha 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 Yuki
Start here. Influenced is the clearest statement of what Eugene Cordero does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eugene 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 Kings of Summer (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of Influenced but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Same director as The Kings of Summer, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Mule (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Kong: Skull Island — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The High Note (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Mule but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
2 films together
Notably The Kings of Summer
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably When in Rome
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Furry Vengeance
Joey Soloway
Director
1 film together
Notably Afternoon Delight
Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mule
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably The High Note
Jay Chandrasekhar
Director
1 film together
Notably Easter Sunday
Michael Cusack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
Kevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together
Notably Quasi
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
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
The Kings of SummerNisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The High NoteClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MuleMichael Cusack
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mike and Dave Need Wedding DatesMark Steven 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
When in RomeJay Chandrasekhar
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Easter SundayJoey Soloway
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Afternoon DelightPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostbustersKevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuasiRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furry VengeanceSix 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
Influenced
as Yuki
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 High Note
as Seth
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Influenced
as Yuki
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Mule
as Luis Rocha
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Influenced
as Yuki
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. Eugene Cordero 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
11 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
Influenced
as Yuki
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Influenced
as Yuki
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The High Note
as Seth
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Mule
as Luis Rocha
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Influenced
as Yuki
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kong: Skull Island
as Reles
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The High Note
as Seth
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Kai - Hotel Manager
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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