Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#223
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Genesis Rodriguez 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.
Genesis Rodriguez appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Genesis. Big Hero 6 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Smith, Brendan Walsh, Jason Mewes and others, Genesis Rodriguez 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.
Big Hero 6 (2014) as Honey Lemon (voice) · Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk (2019) as Self · Hours (2013) as Abigail
Career snapshot
Ranked #223 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2012–2025
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Big Hero 6
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk
Most frequent director
Kevin Smith
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Kevin Smith
Most common genre
Comedy
8 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
6.2
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk, Delirium, Yoga Hosers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk, Delirium, Yoga Hosers.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.32 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | 6.34 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.24 films | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.96 films | 6.02 films |
| Crime | 6.13 films | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 5.94 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012What to Expect When You're Expecting
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Courtney.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Big Hero 6
8.0 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
2025The Luckiest Man in America
The current state of the argument, as Jail Actress.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Honey Lemon (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Gabriela Conlon
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
as Abigail
Directed by Eric Heisserer
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
Honey Lemon (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Honey Lemon (voice) gives Genesis Rodriguez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk (2019)
Performance score7.6
Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Naomi
Centigrade (2020)
Performance score6.6
Centigrade asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Naomi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gabriela Conlon
Run All Night (2015)
Performance score6.6
Run All Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gabriela Conlon 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 Honey Lemon (voice)
Start here. Big Hero 6 is the clearest statement of what Genesis Rodriguez does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Genesis 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.
Hours (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Big Hero 6 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Run All Night (2015)
Keeps the thriller register of Hours but asks for a colder reading of it.
Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Run All Night — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Centigrade (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kevin Smith
Director
3 films together
Notably The 4:30 Movie
Matt Piedmont
Director
1 film together
Notably Casa de Mi Padre
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably What to Expect When You're Expecting
Kim Jee-woon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Stand
Eric Heisserer
Director
1 film together
Notably Hours
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Identity Thief
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Run All Night
Jason Mewes
Director
1 film together
Notably Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk
Brendan Walsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Centigrade
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Smith
Director
3 films together · 5.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The 4:30 MovieChris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6Jason Mewes
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walrus Yes: The Making of TuskEric Heisserer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoursJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Run All NightKim Jee-woon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last StandKirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What to Expect When You're ExpectingSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Identity ThiefBrendan Walsh
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CentigradeMatt Piedmont
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Casa de Mi PadreSix 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
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (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
What to Expect When You're Expecting
as Courtney
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Luckiest Man in America
as Jail Actress
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (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. Genesis Rodriguez 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
8 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
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Walrus Yes: The Making of Tusk
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
What to Expect When You're Expecting
as Courtney
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Centigrade
as Naomi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Luckiest Man in America
as Jail Actress
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Big Hero 6
as Honey Lemon (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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