Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3372
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Amanda Plummer represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Amanda is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Amanda Plummer appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amanda. Pulp Fiction is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 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 thriller, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Uwe Boll, Danis Goulet, Eric Friedler and others, Amanda Plummer 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.
Pulp Fiction (1994) as Honey Bunny · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Honey Bunny · Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #3372 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1992–2026
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Pulp Fiction
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Pulp Fiction
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Drama
10 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
6.9
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
6.7
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
1990s
7.2 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Hercules, Freeway, The Prophecy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Hercules, Freeway, The Prophecy.
Most productive era
1990s
7 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.85 films | 6.02 films | 5.81 film | 5.82 films |
| Action | 6.02 films | — | 7.41 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.23 films | 5.91 film | 5.31 film | 2.02 films |
| Comedy | 7.63 films | 5.41 film | 5.81 film | 5.81 film |
| Crime | 7.54 films | — | 5.52 films | 5.71 film |
| Romance | 7.61 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Horror | 6.42 films | 5.41 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1992Freejack
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nun.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1994Pulp Fiction
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 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
2026Unwinding
The current state of the argument, as Charlotte Hoffman.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Honey Bunny
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Honey Bunny
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Clotho (voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Wiress
Directed by Francis Lawrence
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 23 of 23 titles · 23 total credits · active 1992–2026
Unwinding
2026 · Charlotte Hoffman
The Mastermind
2025 · Louise
Run
2025 · Anna
Showing Up
2023 · Dorothy
Night Raiders
2021 · Roberta
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Self
Star Trek: Picard
2020 · TV · Captain Vadic
Ratched
2020 · TV · Louise
We Are Boats
2019 · Jimmie
A Young Man With High Potential
2019 · Ketura Stantz
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Wiress
Small Apartments
2012 · Mrs. Ballisteri
Phineas and Ferb
2007 · TV · Poofenplotz (voice)
Satan's Little Helper
2005 · Merrill Whooly
My Life Without Me
2003 · Laurie
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000 · Vivien
Hercules
1997 · Clotho (voice)
Freeway
1996 · Ramona Lutz
The Prophecy
1995 · Rachael
The Outer Limits
1995 · TV · Dr. Theresa Givens
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Honey Bunny
Needful Things
1993 · Nettie Cobb
Freejack
1992 · Nun
The defining work
#1
Honey Bunny
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Honey Bunny gives Amanda Plummer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Honey Bunny
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.4
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Honey Bunny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Performance score7.5
Wim Wenders, Desperado asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Clotho (voice)
Hercules (1997)
Performance score7.4
Hercules asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clotho (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Honey Bunny
Start here. Pulp Fiction is the clearest statement of what Amanda Plummer does — accessible, 154 minutes, and rated 9.2 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.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Hercules (1997)
Keeps the comedy register of Pulp Fiction but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Keeps the adventure register of Hercules but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
2 films together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Geoff Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Freejack
Gregory Widen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prophecy
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably Hercules
Wim Wenders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Million Dollar Hotel
Isabel Coixet
Director
1 film together
Notably My Life Without Me
Jonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together
Notably Small Apartments
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Eric Friedler
Director
1 film together
Notably Wim Wenders, Desperado
Danis Goulet
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Raiders
Uwe Boll
Director
1 film together
Notably Run
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Ving Rhames
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Eric Stoltz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Tim Roth
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Rosanna Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
2 films together · 8.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pulp FictionEric Friedler
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wim Wenders, DesperadoJohn Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HerculesFrancis Lawrence
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 Hunger Games: Catching FireGregory Widen
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 ProphecyIsabel Coixet
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Life Without MeWim Wenders
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Million Dollar HotelJonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Small ApartmentsGeoff Murphy
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreejackDanis Goulet
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night RaidersUwe Boll
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RunSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 1995
Pulp Fiction
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hercules
as Clotho (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Mastermind
as Louise
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
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 Plummer has known it for a long time.”
“They call it a Royale with cheese.”
“English, motherf—er, do you speak it?”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #216 of 681 | #9 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Directors | Quentin Tarantino | Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 1999–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Honey Bunny — Pulp Fiction | Paul Edgecomb — The Green Mile |
| Most rewatchable film | Pulp Fiction | The Green Mile |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Tom Hanks edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
34 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Life Without Me
as Laurie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Wiress
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hercules
as Clotho (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pulp Fiction
as Honey Bunny
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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