Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#432
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jason Sudeikis 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.
Jason Sudeikis appears in 35 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Angry Birds: Live Stream 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 comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Rice, David Feiss, Charlie Day and others, Jason Sudeikis 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.
Angry Birds: Live Stream (2019) as Red · The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) as Red (voice) · Booksmart (2019) as Principal Brown
Career snapshot
Ranked #432 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
35
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Angry Birds: Live Stream
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Angry Birds: Live Stream
Most frequent director
John Rice
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With John Rice
Most common genre
Comedy
29 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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. Driven, Angry Birds: Live Stream, The Angry Birds Movie 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 23 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
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Rocker, Semi-Pro, What Happens in Vegas.
Most productive era
2010s
23 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 | 6.11 film | 6.07 films | 6.41 film |
| Action | — | 6.44 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 5.86 films | 6.220 films | 3.73 films |
| Crime | — | 6.34 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.23 films | 5.97 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007The Ten
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tony Contiella.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Red (voice).
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.
35 of 35 films
as Red (voice)
Directed by Thurop Van Orman
as Hitpig (voice)
Directed by David Feiss
as Matt Ryder
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Red
Angry Birds: Live Stream (2019)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Red gives Jason Sudeikis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Red (voice)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Performance score7.7
The Angry Birds Movie 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Red (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Justin Pin / Ares (voice)
Next Gen (2018)
Performance score7.4
Next Gen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Justin Pin / Ares (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hitpig (voice)
Hitpig! (2024)
Performance score7.3
Hitpig! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hitpig (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 Red
Start here. Angry Birds: Live Stream is the clearest statement of what Jason Sudeikis does — accessible, 3 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jason 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.
Kodachrome (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Angry Birds: Live Stream but asks for a colder reading of it.
Next Gen (2018)
Same director as Kodachrome, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Keeps the action register of Next Gen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hitpig! (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The Angry Birds Movie 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Rice
Director
2 films together
Notably Angry Birds: Live Stream
Melisa Wallack
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet Bill
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ten
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably What Happens in Vegas
Nanette Burstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Going the Distance
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bounty Hunter
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Bosses
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Hall Pass
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Campaign
Joe Swanberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Drinking Buddies
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Leslye Headland
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleeping with Other People
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Mother's Day
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Masterminds
Nacho Vigalondo
Director
1 film together
Notably Colossal
Alexander Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably Downsizing
Olivia Wilde
Director
1 film together
Notably Booksmart
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Nick Hamm
Director
1 film together
Notably Driven
Matthew Akers
Director
1 film together
Notably David Blaine: Ascension
Charlie Day
Director
1 film together
Notably Fool's Paradise
David Feiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitpig!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Rice
Director
2 films together · 3.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Angry Birds: Live StreamThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Olivia Wilde
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BooksmartDavid Feiss
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hitpig!Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible BossesNacho Vigalondo
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ColossalLeslye Headland
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sleeping with Other PeopleMatthew Akers
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
David Blaine: AscensionNick Hamm
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrivenNanette Burstein
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going the DistanceTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Happens in VegasMelisa Wallack
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet BillGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mother's DayJoe Swanberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drinking BuddiesAndy Tennant
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bounty HunterJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MastermindsJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CampaignBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hall PassAlexander Payne
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DownsizingDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Charlie Day
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fool's ParadiseSix 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
Next Gen
as Justin Pin / Ares (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
Epic
as Bomba (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Angry Birds: Live Stream
as Red
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Semi-Pro
as Nacho Fan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Angry Birds: Live Stream
as Red
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. Jason Sudeikis 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
29 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
Angry Birds: Live Stream
as Red
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
South of Heaven
as Jimmy Ray
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as Bomba (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Epic
as Bomba (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Red (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Red (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Drinking Buddies
as Gene Dentler
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Bounty Hunter
as Stewart
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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