Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10337
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jackie Cruz 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.
Jackie Cruz appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jackie. Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story is the clearest case: a film rated 6.5 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, romance, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Elisabeth Röhm, Don Michael Paul, Jackie Cruz 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.
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024) as Alyssa Pladl · Never Change! (2026) as Victoria Mayo · This Changes Everything (2019) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #10337 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.5
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.5
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
Most frequent director
Elisabeth Röhm
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Elisabeth Röhm
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.1
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. This Changes Everything — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 1 catalogue film 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. This Changes Everything.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | 5.43 films |
| Action | — | 5.42 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.63 films |
| Comedy | — | 4.65 films |
| Crime | — | 5.54 films |
| Romance | — | 3.64 films |
| Horror | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Self.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
6.5 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
2026Never Change!
The current state of the argument, as Victoria Mayo.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Alyssa Pladl
Directed by Elisabeth Röhm
as Victoria Mayo
Directed by Unknown
as Suzanna
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
Alyssa Pladl
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alyssa Pladl gives Jackie Cruz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Victoria Mayo
Never Change! (2026)
Performance score6.5
Never Change! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victoria Mayo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ruby Serrano
Say a Little Prayer (2024)
Performance score6.5
Say a Little Prayer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruby Serrano is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cynthia Benitez
Panama (2022)
Performance score6.5
Panama asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cynthia Benitez 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 Alyssa Pladl
Start here. Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story is the clearest statement of what Jackie Cruz does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jackie 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.
Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)
Keeps the crime register of Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Panama (2022)
Same director as Midnight in the Switchgrass, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Say a Little Prayer (2024)
Same director as Panama, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Never Change! (2026)
Same director as Say a Little Prayer, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Elisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl StoryDon Michael Paul
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tremors: Shrieker IslandSix 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
Never Change!
as Victoria Mayo
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Faraway Eyes
as Susan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
as Alyssa Pladl
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
This Changes Everything
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
as Alyssa Pladl
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. Jackie Cruz 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
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
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
as Alyssa Pladl
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Midnight in the Switchgrass
as Suzanna
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
I Love Us
as Ruby Ellis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Midnight in the Switchgrass
as Suzanna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Midnight in the Switchgrass
as Suzanna
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Panama
as Cynthia Benitez
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Lansky
as Dafne
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Faraway Eyes
as Susan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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