Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5077
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alexandra Shipp 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 Shipp appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alexandra. Love, Simon is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, horror, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian Cox, Robert Schwartzman, Greta Gerwig and others, Alexandra Shipp 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.
Love, Simon (2018) as Abby · tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) as Susan Wilson · All the Bright Places (2020) as Kate
Career snapshot
Ranked #5077 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Love, Simon
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Love, Simon
Most frequent director
David Leitch
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dark Phoenix, Shaft, Jexi — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.91 film | 6.58 films |
| Action | — | 6.75 films | 4.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.61 film | 5.73 films |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 7.06 films | 6.56 films |
| Crime | — | 6.02 films | 6.22 films |
| Romance | — | 7.91 film | 6.84 films |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Valentina.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Love, Simon
7.9 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
2026Glenrothan
The current state of the argument, as Amy.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Susan Wilson
Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
as Abby
Directed by Greg Berlanti
as Riley Jean Stanheight
Directed by Scott Speer
as Storm (uncredited)
Directed by David Leitch
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
Susan Wilson
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Susan Wilson gives Alexandra Shipp a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kate
All the Bright Places (2020)
Performance score7.9
All the Bright Places asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abby
Love, Simon (2018)
Performance score7.9
Love, Simon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Riley Jean Stanheight
Endless (2020)
Performance score7.3
Endless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Riley Jean Stanheight 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 Susan Wilson
Start here. tick, tick... BOOM! is the clearest statement of what Alexandra Shipp does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.6 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.
Love, Simon (2018)
Keeps the drama register of tick, tick... BOOM! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Love, Simon but asks for a colder reading of it.
All the Bright Places (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Deadpool 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Endless (2020)
Keeps the romance register of All the Bright Places but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Apocalypse
Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Simon
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Jexi
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Shaft
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Phoenix
Scott Speer
Director
1 film together
Notably Endless
Brett Haley
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Bright Places
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Director
1 film together
Notably tick, tick... BOOM!
Tiller Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Silk Road
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Anyone but You
Kyra Sedgwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Oddity
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie
Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good Half
Brian Cox
Director
1 film together
Notably Glenrothan
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
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
Deadpool 2Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, SimonLin-Manuel Miranda
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
tick, tick... BOOM!Brett Haley
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Bright PlacesBrian Cox
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GlenrothanGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarbieWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anyone but YouJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JexiScott Speer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EndlessTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShaftBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: ApocalypseTiller Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silk RoadRobert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Good HalfKyra Sedgwick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space OdditySimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark PhoenixBetty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The SqueakquelSix 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
Love, Simon
as Abby
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love, Simon
as Abby
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Love, Simon
as Abby
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool 2
as Storm (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Susan Wilson
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 Shipp 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 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
Love, Simon
as Abby
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Deadpool 2
as Storm (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Susan Wilson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Spinning Man
as Anna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool 2
as Storm (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Deadpool 2
as Storm (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Valentina
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Barbie
as Barbie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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