--- title: Manny Jacinto: TIME100 Next 2025 description: Find out how Manny Jacinto is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-09-30T11:01:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:55:23.208Z article:section: World og:title: Manny Jacinto Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next og:description: Find out why Manny Jacinto is on this year’s list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt247ae92d3bfa6b95/6998c9f9c8dcb4220cb507ec/t100-next-2025-manny-JACINTO.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Manny Jacinto Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Manny Jacinto Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next twitter:description: Find out why Manny Jacinto is on this year’s list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt247ae92d3bfa6b95/6998c9f9c8dcb4220cb507ec/t100-next-2025-manny-JACINTO.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 30, 2025 # Manny Jacinto by Alan Yang  Raul Romo—Trunk One of the greatest joys of my time working in film and TV has been the revelation that talent and kindness aren’t mutually exclusive. Manny Jacinto is the perfect example. Sure, he has incredible range as an actor—from performing so-dumb-it’s-smart comedy in _The Good Place_ to pulling off how-did-he-do-that physical feats on _The Acolyte_ to effortlessly charming Lindsay Lohan and moviegoers worldwide in _Freakier Friday._ But more importantly, Manny is fundamentally, elementally, constitutionally _good._ He’s a fiercely loyal friend, dotes on his family (I’ve had Thanksgiving with them, it’s adorable), and loves his wife Dianne more than _Star Wars_ fans love his character Qimir’s bad-ass helmet (it’s an awesome helmet!). Together, they’re a couple so perfect, you might think they were engineered in a lab, if they weren’t also so funny and human. My fervent hope is that very, very soon, Manny is starring in the three biggest films of the year and we can say that one of our greatest leading men is also one of our best humans—I wouldn’t bet against him! _Yang is an Emmy-winning writer and producer_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/"},"headline":"Manny Jacinto","datePublished":"2025-09-30T11:01:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:55:23.208Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/","keywords":["TIME100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt247ae92d3bfa6b95/6998c9f9c8dcb4220cb507ec/t100-next-2025-manny-JACINTO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt247ae92d3bfa6b95/6998c9f9c8dcb4220cb507ec/t100-next-2025-manny-JACINTO.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-next/","name":"TIME100 Next"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318888/manny-jacinto/","name":"Manny Jacinto"}}]}] ```