Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3486
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rose Abdoo represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Rose is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rose Abdoo appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rose. Leo 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 Will Sterling, Michael Showalter, David Wachtenheim and others, Rose Abdoo 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.
Leo (2023) as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice) · Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) as Mili Lerner · Hotel Transylvania (2012) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3486 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Leo
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Leo
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Comedy
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
1990s
6.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. U.S. Marshals, My Best Friend's Wedding — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
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. U.S. Marshals, My Best Friend's Wedding.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | — | 7.11 film | 6.23 films | 6.71 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.02 films | 6.46 films | 5.16 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.41 film | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Seamstress.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Leo
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
2026That Friend
The current state of the argument, as Maryann.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
Directed by David Wachtenheim
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
as Ticket Agent (voice)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
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
Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
Leo (2023)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice) gives Rose Abdoo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mili Lerner
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Performance score7.0
Good Night, and Good Luck. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mili Lerner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Performance score6.9
Hotel Transylvania asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ticket Agent (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
Performance score6.7
Hotel Transylvania 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ticket Agent (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 Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
Start here. Leo is the clearest statement of what Rose Abdoo does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rose 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.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Leo — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Good Night, and Good Luck. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
Same director as Hotel Transylvania, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Something from Tiffany's (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Hotel Transylvania 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably My Best Friend's Wedding
Stuart Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably U.S. Marshals
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The 40 Year Old Virgin
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck.
Savage Steve Holland
Director
1 film together
Notably Legally Blondes
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Teacher
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together
Notably Cake
Shira Piven
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to Me
Chris Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Other People
Nicol Paone
Director
1 film together
Notably Friendsgiving
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Daryl Wein
Director
1 film together
Notably Something from Tiffany's
David Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Leo
Michael Showalter
Director
1 film together
Notably Oh. What. Fun.
Will Sterling
Director
1 film together
Notably That Friend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel TransylvaniaDavid Wachtenheim
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeoGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good Luck.Daryl Wein
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Something from Tiffany'sP.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Best Friend's WeddingStuart Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
U.S. MarshalsChris Kelly
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Other PeopleJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 40 Year Old VirginDaniel Barnz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CakeJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del MarShira Piven
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to MeMichael Showalter
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oh. What. Fun.Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TeacherSavage Steve Holland
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legally BlondesNicol Paone
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FriendsgivingWill Sterling
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That FriendSix 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
Leo
as Mia's Mom / TJ's 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
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as Mili Lerner
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Leo
as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The 40 Year Old Virgin
as Mother at Restaurant
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Leo
as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (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. Rose Abdoo 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
29 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
15 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
Leo
as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
U.S. Marshals
as Donna
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as Mili Lerner
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
U.S. Marshals
as Donna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
U.S. Marshals
as Donna
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
U.S. Marshals
as Donna
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Something from Tiffany's
as Muriel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Leo
as Mia's Mom / TJ's Mom (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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