Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8944
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Amanda Crew 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.
Amanda Crew appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amanda. The Age of Adaline 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 science fiction, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Stein, Eric Kissack, Joel David Moore and others, Amanda Crew 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.
The Age of Adaline (2015) as Kikki Jones · The Move (2024) · Charlie St. Cloud (2010) as Tess Carroll
Career snapshot
Ranked #8944 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Age of Adaline
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Age of Adaline
Most frequent director
Adam Stein
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Adam Stein
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Sex Drive, She's the Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Sex Drive, She's the Man.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | — | 6.64 films | 4.81 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films | 3.73 films |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 5.62 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.62 films | 7.32 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006She's the Man
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kia.
Highest rated performance
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2024The Move
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Freaks Part II
The current state of the argument, as Mary.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Kikki Jones
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
as Mary
Directed by Adam Stein
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
The Move
The Move (2024)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Amanda Crew a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kikki Jones
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Performance score7.6
The Age of Adaline asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kikki Jones is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tess Carroll
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Performance score7.4
Charlie St. Cloud asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tess Carroll is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mary
Freaks (2019)
Performance score7.0
Freaks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mary 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
Start here. The Move is the clearest statement of what Amanda Crew does — accessible, 9 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Amanda 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.
Sex Drive (2008)
A deliberate change of key after The Move — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Keeps the romance register of Sex Drive but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Keeps the romance register of Charlie St. Cloud but asks for a colder reading of it.
Freaks (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Age of Adaline — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Adam Stein
Director
2 films together
Notably Freaks
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably She's the Man
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie St. Cloud
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Age of Adaline
Jeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Table 19
Roxanne Benjamin
Director
1 film together
Notably There's Something Wrong with the Children
Joel David Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Some Other Woman
Eric Kissack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Move
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Adam Stein
Director
2 films together · 3.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
FreaksLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Age of AdalineEric Kissack
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MoveBurr Steers
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie St. CloudAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's the ManJeffrey Blitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Table 19Roxanne Benjamin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
There's Something Wrong with the ChildrenJoel David Moore
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Some Other WomanSix 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
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
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 Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jobs
as Julie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Move
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. Amanda Crew 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
20 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Target Number One
as Anna Malarek
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
There's Something Wrong with the Children
as Ellie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sex Drive
as Felicia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Age of Adaline
as Kikki Jones
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Freaks
as Mary
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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