Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2758
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alison Pill 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.
Alison Pill appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alison. Midnight in Paris is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 horror, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with M. Night Shyamalan, Adam McKay, Andrew Fleming and others, Alison Pill 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.
Midnight in Paris (2011) as Zelda Fitzgerald · Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) as Kim Pine · Milk (2008) as Anne Kronenberg
Career snapshot
Ranked #2758 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2003–2024
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Midnight in Paris
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Midnight in Paris
Most frequent director
Woody Allen
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Woody Allen
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Vice, Ideal Home, Goon: Last of the Enforcers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Milk, Dan in Real Life, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 6.73 films | 6.83 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.83 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.58 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.91 film | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Pieces of April
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Beth Burns.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7.5 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
2024Trap
The current state of the argument, as Rachel.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Kim Pine
Directed by Edgar Wright
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Directed by Woody Allen
as Anne Kronenberg
Directed by Gus Van Sant
as Mary Cheney
Directed by Adam McKay
as Teacher
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
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
Kim Pine
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kim Pine gives Alison Pill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Zelda Fitzgerald
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Performance score7.3
Midnight in Paris asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zelda Fitzgerald is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anne Kronenberg
Milk (2008)
Performance score7.2
Milk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anne Kronenberg is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mary Cheney
Vice (2018)
Performance score7.1
Vice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mary Cheney 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 Kim Pine
Start here. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the clearest statement of what Alison Pill does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alison 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.
Milk (2008)
A deliberate change of key after Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Milk — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Snowpiercer (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Midnight in Paris — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Vice (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Snowpiercer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Hedges
Director
2 films together
Notably Dan in Real Life
Woody Allen
Director
2 films together
Notably Midnight in Paris
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Milk
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Bong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Snowpiercer
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together
Notably Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Ideal Home
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Vice
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Trap
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Woody Allen
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
Midnight in ParisPeter Hedges
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dan in Real LifeEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MilkAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ViceBong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnowpiercerAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ideal HomeM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrapJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goon: Last of the EnforcersSix 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
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Kim Pine
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dan in Real Life
as Jane
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Kim Pine
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Midnight in Paris
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Kim Pine
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. Alison Pill 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
11 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
Midnight in Paris
as Zelda Fitzgerald
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Kim Pine
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dan in Real Life
as Jane
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hail, Caesar!
as Mrs. Mannix
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
as Kim Pine
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Snowpiercer
as Teacher
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dan in Real Life
as Jane
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
as Eva
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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