Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#566
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alexandra Daddario 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.
Alexandra Daddario appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alexandra. Wildflower 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, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nora Kirkpatrick, Mark Waters, Tommy Dorfman and others, Alexandra Daddario 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.
Wildflower (2023) as Joy · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024) as Lois Lane (voice) · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024) as Lois Lane (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #566 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Wildflower
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Wildflower
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.3
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Babysitters, The Squid and the Whale — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
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
2000s
6.5
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. The Babysitters, The Squid and the Whale.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | 6.52 films | 6.73 films | 5.07 films |
| Action | — | 6.22 films | 6.74 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.04 films | 5.82 films |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 5.97 films | 5.94 films |
| Crime | — | 5.73 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.35 films | 3.63 films |
| Horror | — | 5.53 films | 5.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Pretty Girl.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Wildflower
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
2026Hershey
The current state of the argument, as Kitty Hershey.
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.
30 of 30 films
as Monica
Directed by Ross Katz
as Lois Lane (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
as Lois Lane (voice)
Directed by Chris Palmer
as Lois Lane (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
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
Joy
Wildflower (2023)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Joy gives Alexandra Daddario a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Monica
The Choice (2016)
Performance score7.3
The Choice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Monica is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lois Lane (voice)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Performance score7.2
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lois Lane (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lois Lane (voice)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
Performance score7.2
Superman: Man of Tomorrow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lois Lane (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 Joy
Start here. Wildflower is the clearest statement of what Alexandra Daddario does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alexandra 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.
The Choice (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Wildflower but asks for a colder reading of it.
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Choice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Keeps the action register of Superman: Man of Tomorrow but asks for a colder reading of it.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Same director as Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wamester
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Squid and the Whale
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Hall Pass
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Joe Dante
Director
1 film together
Notably Burying the Ex
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably San Andreas
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Choice
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Layover
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Baywatch
Stacie Passon
Director
1 film together
Notably We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Chris Palmer
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Tommy Dorfman
Director
1 film together
Notably I Wish You All the Best
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Hershey
Nora Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Couples Weekend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part OneRoss Katz
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 ChoiceChris Palmer
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Man of TomorrowNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Squid and the WhaleBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
San AndreasNora Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Couples WeekendChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaywatchThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hall PassJoe Dante
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Burying the ExTommy Dorfman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Wish You All the BestStacie Passon
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Have Always Lived in the CastleWilliam H. Macy
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 LayoverMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HersheySix 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
Wildflower
as Joy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Choice
as Monica
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Wildflower
as Joy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Squid and the Whale
as Pretty Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Wildflower
as Joy
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. Alexandra Daddario 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
21 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
12 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
Wildflower
as Joy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
as Lois Lane (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hershey
as Kitty Hershey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
as Constance Blackwood
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
as Lois Lane (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
as Lois Lane (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Choice
as Monica
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bereavement
as Allison
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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