--- name: "Tina Majorino" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tina-majorino" fi1m_id: "tina-majorino" imdb_id: "nm0001499" tmdb_id: 53930 wikidata_id: "Q234321" roles: ["Actor"] born: "7 February 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-19T08:30:39.160919+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Tina Majorino ## Identity Tina Majorino - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tina-majorino - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tina-majorino - **IMDb ID:** nm0001499 - **TMDB ID:** 53930 - **Wikidata ID:** Q234321 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Majorino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001499/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53930 Actor. Born 7 February 1985 in Westlake Village, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 7 February 1985, Westlake Village, California, USA - **Active:** 1995–2004 - **Also known as:** Tina Marie Majorino, Albertina Marie Majorino, تینا ماجورینو - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 61 (1), 2000s 79 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 65 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Drama 1, Mystery 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $310m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Majorino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234321, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001499/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53930 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Veronica Mars*](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md) (84) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Napoleon Dynamite*](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md) (74) - **Hulu:** [*Waterworld*](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md) (61) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Tina Majorino > Tina Majorino gives awkward outsiders a welcome lack of fuss. We rate her as an understated ensemble player: in *Napoleon Dynamite*, she helps make a group worth spending time with, though she cannot solve its wandering story. Deb does not have to compete with Napoleon’s oddness to make an impression in *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004). Tina Majorino’s understatement suits Jared Hess’s high-school comedy, which needs its supporting players whenever the jokes begin to stall. The screenplay by Hess and Jerusha Hess is strongest in small encounters, where Deb and Efren Ramirez’s Pedro Sanchez relieve Napoleon of having to supply every comic variation. We grew fond of their company because those encounters gave us time to get to know the characters between laughs. Majorino suits that patient approach, although patience is something the film occasionally asks for without earning it. Her early screen work placed her in rather different circumstances. As a child actor, she played Molly Singer in *Corrina, Corrina* (1994) and Enola in *Waterworld* (1995), opposite Kevin Costner in the latter. Those years often put her characters through family crises or other dramatic upheavals. After a break from 1999 to 2004, she returned as Deb, with the smaller social difficulties of an outsider comedy taking the place of those large events. Television then gave her a sustained place in ensembles, including *Veronica Mars* (2004–2007) and *Big Love* (2006–2011). Rob Thomas created the part of Cindy ‘Mac’ Mackenzie specifically for her in *Veronica Mars*, and she reprised it in the 2014 film. The computer expert fits a recurring pattern in Majorino’s casting, which favours intelligent, technically capable or socially awkward outsiders. Such parts make sense for an actor whose appeal as Deb comes from not overplaying the awkwardness. The risk is that we recognise the type before we notice what she is doing with it. These are often supporting parts, and it would be a mistake to treat that as a failing. In *Napoleon Dynamite*, sharing the comic work with Ramirez is precisely what Majorino does well, and the film needs them both as its shortage of story becomes harder to ignore. Deb cannot keep every awkward encounter from dragging, but her presence remains one of the reasons to forgive the film its aimlessness. Start there if a high-school comedy with time to spare for its outsiders sounds like a good evening. ## Biography Tina Majorino is an American actress. Born on 7 February 1985 in Westlake Village, California, she began her career as a child actor in the 1990s. Her early film roles include *When a Man Loves a Woman* (1994), *Corrina, Corrina* (1994), *Andre* (1994) and *Waterworld* (1995). She left acting in 1999 and returned in 2004 as Deb in *Napoleon Dynamite*. Subsequent credits include the role of Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie in *Veronica Mars* (2004–2007, 2014), appearances in *Big Love* and *Grey's Anatomy*, and a voice role as Deb in the 2012 animated series *Napoleon Dynamite*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004), Fi1m 74, as Deb — [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md) - *Veronica Mars* (2004), Fi1m 84, as Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie — [page](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md) - *Waterworld* (1995), Fi1m 61, as Enola — [page](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md) ## Complete filmography (35) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Goodbye, Monster* (2026), as Trish - *Devil May Cry* (2025), series, as Sentry (voice) - *I, Challenger* (2022), as Vanessa - *Bury Me* (2022), as Vanessa - *Etheria* (2020), series, as Erin - *Delivered* (2020), as Jenny - *The Good Doctor* (2017), series, as Grace - *Scorpion* (2014), series, as Florence - *Legends* (2014), series, as Maggie Harris - *You, Me & Her* (2014), as Erin - *Veronica Mars* (2014), as Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie - *Should've Been Romeo* (2012), as Alice - *Napoleon Dynamite* (2012), series, as Deb (voice) - *The Deep End* (2010), series, as Addy Fisher - *Castle* (2009), series, as Reese Harmon — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/castle.md) - *True Blood* (2008), series, as Molly — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-blood.md) - *What We Do Is Secret* (2007), as Michelle - *Think Tank* (2006), as Sal - *Big Love* (2006), series, as Heather Tuttle — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/big-love.md) - *Bones* (2005), series, as Special Agent Genevieve Shaw — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md) - *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, as Heather Brooks — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md) - *Veronica Mars* (2004), series, as Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md) - *Napoleon Dynamite* (2004), as Deb — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon-dynamite.md) - *Without a Trace* (2002), series, as Serene Barnes - *Alice in Wonderland* (1999), as Alice - *Merry Christmas, George Bailey* (1997), as Janie Bailey - *Before Women Had Wings* (1997), as Avocet Abigail 'Bird' Jackson - *Santa Fe* (1997), as Crystal Thomas - *True Women* (1997), series, as Young Euphemia Ashby - *New York Crossing* (1996), as Laura - *Waterworld* (1995), as Enola — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md) - *Andre* (1994), as Toni Whitney - *Corrina, Corrina* (1994), as Molly Singer - *When a Man Loves a Woman* (1994), as Jess Green - *Camp Wilder* (1992), series, as Sophie Wilder ## Gallery - ![Tina Majorino](https://film.one/media/person/98567/gallery-ff25a381249a.jpg) Tina Majorino — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Tina_Majorino_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Tina_Majorino_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Chris Lowell and Tina Majorino speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Veronica Mars", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Cal](https://film.one/media/person/98567/gallery-846490b790cf.jpg) Chris Lowell and Tina Majorino speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Veronica Mars", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Cal — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Chris_Lowell_%26_Tina_Majorino.jpg/1280px-Chris_Lowell_%26_Tina_Majorino.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Chris Lowell and Tina Majorino speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Veronica Mars", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Cal](https://film.one/media/person/98567/gallery-187bec86ed85.jpg) Chris Lowell and Tina Majorino speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Veronica Mars", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Cal — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Chris_Lowell_%26_Tina_Majorino_2013_SDCC.jpg/1280px-Chris_Lowell_%26_Tina_Majorino_2013_SDCC.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jon Gries and Tina Majorino at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. 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