Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3766
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gina 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.
Gina Rodriguez appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gina. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brittany Snow, Robert Rodriguez, Tony Cervone and others, Gina 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.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021) as Self · Ferdinand (2017) as Una (voice) · Scoob! (2020) as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3766 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2016–2024
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Most frequent director
Brittany Snow
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Brittany Snow
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Miss Bala, Someone Great, Annihilation — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Miss Bala, Someone Great, Annihilation.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.91 film | 6.33 films |
| Action | 6.72 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | 6.35 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.33 films |
| Horror | 6.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Andrea Fleytas.
Career peak
2017Ferdinand
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2024Players
The current state of the argument, as Mack.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Carmen Sandiego (voice)
Directed by Jos Humphrey
as Una (voice)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
Directed by Tony Cervone
as Gloria
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
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
Carmen Sandiego (voice)
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal (2020)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Carmen Sandiego (voice) gives Gina Rodriguez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Una (voice)
Ferdinand (2017)
Performance score7.3
Ferdinand asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Una (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
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
Performance score7.2
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It 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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Velma Dinkley (voice)
Scoob! (2020)
Performance score7.1
Scoob! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Velma Dinkley (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 Carmen Sandiego (voice)
Start here. Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal is the clearest statement of what Gina Rodriguez does — accessible, 31 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gina 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.
Ferdinand (2017)
Keeps the adventure register of Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss Bala (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Ferdinand — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scoob! (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Miss Bala — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Scoob! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Deepwater Horizon
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferdinand
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Smallfoot
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Annihilation
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Someone Great
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Bala
Jos Humphrey
Director
1 film together
Notably Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal
Miranda July
Director
1 film together
Notably Kajillionaire
Tony Cervone
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoob!
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy Kids: Armageddon
Brittany Snow
Director
1 film together
Notably Parachute
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerdinandTony Cervone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scoob!Peter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deepwater HorizonKarey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SmallfootBrittany Snow
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParachuteJos Humphrey
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to StealAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnihilationCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss BalaJennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Someone GreatMiranda July
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KajillionaireRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spy Kids: ArmageddonSix 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
Ferdinand
as Una (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
Parachute
as Dr. Akerman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal
as Carmen Sandiego (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. Gina 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
Scoob!
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scoob!
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Parachute
as Dr. Akerman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scoob!
as Velma Dinkley (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deepwater Horizon
as Andrea Fleytas
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Miss Bala
as Gloria
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Smallfoot
as Kolka (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Awake
as Jill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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