Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#394
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jimmy Gonzales 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.
Jimmy Gonzales appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jimmy. The Odyssey 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, action, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, Eva Longoria, Scott Teems and others, Jimmy Gonzales 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.
The Odyssey (2026) as Cepheus · Logan (2017) as Mexican Staff Member · Flamin' Hot (2023) as Hector Morales
Career snapshot
Ranked #394 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Odyssey
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Odyssey
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Action
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Miss Bala, Happy Death Day 2U, Godzilla: King of the Monsters — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Four Christmases.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.81 film | 7.53 films | 6.94 films |
| Action | — | 6.57 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.24 films | 5.63 films |
| Comedy | 5.81 film | 6.32 films | 4.51 film |
| Crime | — | 6.13 films | 5.63 films |
| Romance | 5.81 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Four Christmases
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Church-Goer.
Highest rated performance
2017Logan
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Blue Miracle
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Odyssey
The current state of the argument, as Cepheus.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Omar
Directed by Unknown
as Cepheus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Mexican Staff Member
Directed by James Mangold
as Hector Morales
Directed by Eva Longoria
as Guard
Directed by Michael Hoffman
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
Omar
Blue Miracle (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Omar gives Jimmy Gonzales a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cepheus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score7.8
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cepheus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mexican Staff Member
Logan (2017)
Performance score7.8
Logan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mexican Staff Member is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hector Morales
Flamin' Hot (2023)
Performance score7.4
Flamin' Hot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hector Morales 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 Omar
Start here. Blue Miracle is the clearest statement of what Jimmy Gonzales does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jimmy 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 Best of Me (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Blue Miracle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Logan (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Best of Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Flamin' Hot (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Logan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Odyssey (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Flamin' Hot — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Four Christmases
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Machete Kills
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Best of Me
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Self/less
Paco Cabezas
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Right
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Logan
Michael Dougherty
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Bala
Scott Teems
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quarry
Eva Longoria
Director
1 film together
Notably Flamin' Hot
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OdysseyJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LoganEva Longoria
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flamin' HotMichael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Best of MeMichael Dougherty
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Godzilla: King of the MonstersCatherine 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 BalaPaco Cabezas
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. RightTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Self/lessFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Four ChristmasesRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Machete KillsScott Teems
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The QuarrySix 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
Logan
as Mexican Staff Member
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Flamin' Hot
as Hector Morales
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Logan
as Mexican Staff Member
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Four Christmases
as Church-Goer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Blue Miracle
as Omar
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. Jimmy Gonzales 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in action, 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
The Odyssey
as Cepheus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Logan
as Mexican Staff Member
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Flamin' Hot
as Hector Morales
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Quarry
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Odyssey
as Cepheus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Cepheus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Four Christmases
as Church-Goer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Logan
as Mexican Staff Member
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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