Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#39
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tara Strong represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Tara is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tara Strong appears in 78 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tara. My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, comedy. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Stanton, Steve Manale, Chris Renaud and others, Tara Strong 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.
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip (2019) as Twilight Sparkle (voice) · My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass (2019) as Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice) · My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown (2019) as Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #39 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
78
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
Most frequent director
Henrique Jardim
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Henrique Jardim
Most common genre
Animation
71 titles
Average runtime
1h 13m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
7.0
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Santa's Little Helpers, Minion Scouts, The Secret Life of Pets 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 40 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Wonder Woman, Bolt, Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five.
Most productive era
2010s
40 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 | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Action | 6.95 films | 7.117 films | 6.78 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.47 films | 6.926 films | 6.314 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | 7.22 films | — |
| Romance | 5.41 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Horror | 6.21 film | — | 5.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Melody (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2026Foools
The current state of the argument, as Nod (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.
78 of 78 films
as Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Directed by Katrina Hadley
as Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Directed by Ishi Rudell
as Ben Tennyson / Glitch (voice)
Directed by Henrique Jardim
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
Twilight Sparkle (voice)
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip (2019)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Twilight Sparkle (voice) gives Tara Strong a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass (2019)
Performance score8.8
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self - Narrator (voice)
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
Performance score8.7
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown (2019)
Performance score8.7
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Start here. My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip is the clearest statement of what Tara Strong does — accessible, 60 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tara 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.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass (2019)
Keeps the family register of My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown (2019)
Keeps the animation register of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the action register of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown but asks for a colder reading of it.
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sam Liu
Director
4 films together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Henrique Jardim
Director
4 films together
Notably Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie
Chris Renaud
Director
3 films together
Notably Despicable Me 4
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Seth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together
Notably Ted
Kyle Balda
Director
2 films together
Notably Despicable Me 3
Jake Castorena
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garth Jennings
Director
2 films together
Notably Sing 2
Scott Mosier
Director
2 films together
Notably Minions & More 2
Bradley Raymond
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Craig McCracken
Director
1 film together
Notably The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan & Jane
Jeff McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Ice Age
Andrew R. Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably The Animatrix
Heather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Bolt
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman
Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
Michael Goguen
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Michael Chang
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman vs. The Elite
Victor Cook
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs: The Lost Village
Jayson Thiessen
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: The Movie
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Crackers
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Ross Venokur
Director
1 film together
Notably Charming
Katrina Hadley
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage Pass
Alfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
Andrew Duncan
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom
Ishi Rudell
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters
Jeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Derek Drymon
Director
1 film together
Notably Santa's Little Helpers
Peter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam
José Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: A New Generation
Cinco Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions & More Volume 1
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Michael Cusack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
Cecilia Aranovich
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Steve Manale
Director
1 film together
Notably Foools
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story 5
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Liu
Director
4 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonHenrique Jardim
Director
4 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The MovieChris Renaud
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Despicable Me 4Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman: The Dark Knight ReturnsGarth Jennings
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sing 2Scott Mosier
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Minions & More 2Jake Castorena
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesKyle Balda
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Despicable Me 3Seth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TedKatrina Hadley
Director
1 film together · 8.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Sunset's Backstage PassIshi Rudell
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring BreakdownJames Gunn
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Ethan Spaulding
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Camp ScareJosé Luis Ucha
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: A New GenerationMichael Goguen
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue FalconVictor Cook
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Stage FrightChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ice AgeJeff Mednikow
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen TitansAndrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy Story 5Cecilia Aranovich
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!Jayson Thiessen
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: The MovieHeather A. Maxwell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans: Trouble in TokyoAaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! To the MoviesLauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WomanAndrew R. Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AnimatrixCinco Paul
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions & More Volume 1Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationMichael Chang
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman vs. The EliteCraig McCracken
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Powerpuff Girls MovieMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO DC Batman: Family MattersByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoltJeff McGrath
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild Thornberrys MovieMichael Cusack
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 Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Alfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Rising: Chasing GhostsRoss Venokur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CharmingTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal CrackersKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smurfs: The Lost VillageDerek Drymon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Santa's Little HelpersAndrew Duncan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by VenomPeter Rida Michail
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! See Space JamSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tarzan & JaneKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseBradley Raymond
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunchback of Notre Dame IISteve Manale
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FooolsSix 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
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
as Twilight Sparkle (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
My Little Pony: The Movie
as Twilight Sparkle (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
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
as Twilight Sparkle (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Monsters University
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
as Twilight Sparkle (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. Tara Strong 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
26 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
71 catalogue titles in animation, 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
My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip
as Twilight Sparkle (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as Young Bruce Wayne / Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charming
as Matilija Chief (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
as Helen / Lois Lane / Harley Quinn (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Spring Breakdown
as Twilight Sparkle / Princess Twilight Sparkle (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
as Mainframe (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charming
as Matilija Chief (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ice Age
as Start (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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