Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4090
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mo Collins represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Mo is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mo Collins appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mo. A Parks and Recreation Special is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. 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 Matthew Nastuk, Sean Buckelew, Morgan Sackett and others, Mo Collins 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.
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020) as Joan Callamezzo · Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019) as Robo-Mom (voice) · Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026) as Jimbo Jones (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4090 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1996–2026
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
A Parks and Recreation Special
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
A Parks and Recreation Special
Most frequent director
Judd Apatow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Judd Apatow
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 14m
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
6.6
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. Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, Dirty Grandpa — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 2 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
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jingle All the Way.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.31 film | — | 5.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.32 films | 6.72 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | — | 6.32 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mother on Phone.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020A Parks and Recreation Special
7.6 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
2026Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
The current state of the argument, as Jimbo Jones (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.
8 of 8 films
as Robo-Mom (voice)
Directed by Jake Wyatt
as Jimbo Jones (voice)
Directed by Matthew Nastuk
Directed by Sean Buckelew
as Officer Finch
Directed by Dan Mazer
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
Joan Callamezzo
A Parks and Recreation Special (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Joan Callamezzo gives Mo Collins a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Robo-Mom (voice)
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
Performance score7.2
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Robo-Mom (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jimbo Jones (voice)
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026)
Performance score6.8
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimbo Jones (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Drone
Drone (2022)
Performance score6.5
Drone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Joan Callamezzo
Start here. A Parks and Recreation Special is the clearest statement of what Mo Collins does — accessible, 25 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mo 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.
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of A Parks and Recreation Special but asks for a colder reading of it.
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Dirty Grandpa but asks for a colder reading of it.
Drone (2022)
Keeps the science fiction register of Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus but asks for a colder reading of it.
Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition (2026)
Keeps the animation register of Drone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together
Notably The 40 Year Old Virgin
Brian Levant
Director
1 film together
Notably Jingle All the Way
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Grandpa
Jake Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
Morgan Sackett
Director
1 film together
Notably A Parks and Recreation Special
Sean Buckelew
Director
1 film together
Notably Drone
Matthew Nastuk
Director
1 film together
Notably Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The 40 Year Old VirginMorgan Sackett
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Parks and Recreation SpecialJake Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Invader Zim: Enter the FlorpusMatthew Nastuk
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extreme Makeover: Homer EditionBrian Levant
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jingle All the WayDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty GrandpaSean Buckelew
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DroneSix 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
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
as Robo-Mom (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
Knocked Up
as Female Doctor
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Parks and Recreation Special
as Joan Callamezzo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jingle All the Way
as Mother on Phone
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Parks and Recreation Special
as Joan Callamezzo
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. Mo Collins 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
30 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
7 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
A Parks and Recreation Special
as Joan Callamezzo
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Parks and Recreation Special
as Joan Callamezzo
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Knocked Up
as Female Doctor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
as Robo-Mom (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Parks and Recreation Special
as Joan Callamezzo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jingle All the Way
as Mother on Phone
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Knocked Up
as Female Doctor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jingle All the Way
as Mother on Phone
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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