Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10843
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Alba Rohrwacher works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alba Rohrwacher appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alba. Perfect Strangers is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Noah Baumbach, Isabel Coixet, Pablo Larraín and others, Alba Rohrwacher 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.
Perfect Strangers (2016) as Bianca · Happy as Lazzaro (2018) as Antonia · La Chimera (2023) as Spartaco
Career snapshot
Ranked #10843 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2014–2025
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Perfect Strangers
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Perfect Strangers
Most frequent director
Alice Rohrwacher
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Alice Rohrwacher
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.2
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Jay Kelly, Three Goodbyes, Maria — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Hellhole, The Staggering Girl, Happy as Lazzaro.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.26 films | 6.610 films |
| Thriller | 5.51 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.84 films |
| Romance | 5.51 film | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014The Wonders
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Angelica.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.8 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
2025Three Goodbyes
The current state of the argument, as Marta.
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 Marta
Directed by Isabel Coixet
as Spartaco
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
as Antonia
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
as Alice Kamar
Directed by Unknown
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
Bianca
Perfect Strangers (2016)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bianca gives Alba Rohrwacher a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marta
Three Goodbyes (2025)
Performance score7.7
Three Goodbyes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Spartaco
La Chimera (2023)
Performance score7.6
La Chimera asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Spartaco is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Antonia
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Performance score7.5
Happy as Lazzaro asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antonia 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 Bianca
Start here. Perfect Strangers is the clearest statement of what Alba Rohrwacher does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alba 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.
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Perfect Strangers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Skies of Lebanon (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Happy as Lazzaro but asks for a colder reading of it.
La Chimera (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Skies of Lebanon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Three Goodbyes (2025)
Keeps the drama register of La Chimera but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alice Rohrwacher
Director
3 films together
Notably Happy as Lazzaro
Nanni Moretti
Director
2 films together
Notably A Brighter Tomorrow
Paolo Genovese
Director
1 film together
Notably Perfect Strangers
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably The Staggering Girl
Daniele Luchetti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ties
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost Daughter
Saverio Costanzo
Director
1 film together
Notably Finally Dawn
Pablo Larraín
Director
1 film together
Notably Maria
Isabel Coixet
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Goodbyes
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Jay Kelly
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alice Rohrwacher
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Happy as LazzaroNanni Moretti
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Brighter TomorrowPaolo Genovese
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Perfect StrangersIsabel Coixet
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three GoodbyesDaniele Luchetti
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TiesPablo Larraín
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MariaMaggie Gyllenhaal
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 Lost DaughterNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jay KellySaverio Costanzo
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Finally DawnLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Staggering GirlSix 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
Happy as Lazzaro
as Antonia
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Three Goodbyes
as Marta
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Perfect Strangers
as Bianca
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Brighter Tomorrow
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Perfect Strangers
as Bianca
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. Alba Rohrwacher 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Happy as Lazzaro
as Antonia
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Perfect Strangers
as Bianca
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Three Goodbyes
as Marta
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ismael's Ghosts
as Arielle / Faunia
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Perfect Strangers
as Bianca
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Wonders
as Angelica
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
La Chimera
as Spartaco
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Lost Daughter
as Female Hiker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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