Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1482
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Amy Hill represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Amy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Amy Hill appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amy. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 drama, history, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian Tee, Dean Fleischer Camp, Sean Charmatz and others, Amy Hill 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.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Decathlon Moderator · Lilo & Stitch (2002) as Mrs. Hasagawa (voice) · Lilo & Stitch (2025) as Tūtū
Career snapshot
Ranked #1482 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1993–2026
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Lilo & Stitch
Most frequent director
Shawn Levy
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Shawn Levy
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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. Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Emoji Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Rising Sun.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 | 6.11 film | 6.31 film | — | 2.82 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | — | 7.61 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.28 films | 5.41 film | 6.43 films |
| Romance | — | 6.13 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1993Rising Sun
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hsieh.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2002Lilo & Stitch
7.6 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
2026Enough
The current state of the argument, as Erica (Present Day).
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.
16 of 16 films
as Decathlon Moderator
Directed by Jon Watts
as Mrs. Hasagawa (voice)
Directed by Dean DeBlois
as Tūtū
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp
as Sue
Directed by Peter Segal
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
Decathlon Moderator
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Decathlon Moderator gives Amy Hill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mrs. Hasagawa (voice)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Performance score7.4
Lilo & Stitch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Hasagawa (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tūtū
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Performance score7.1
Lilo & Stitch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tūtū is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sue
50 First Dates (2004)
Performance score6.9
50 First Dates asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sue 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 Decathlon Moderator
Start here. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the clearest statement of what Amy Hill does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Amy 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.
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Keeps the science fiction register of Spider-Man: Homecoming but asks for a colder reading of it.
50 First Dates (2004)
Keeps the comedy register of Lilo & Stitch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of 50 First Dates but asks for a colder reading of it.
Enough (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Lilo & Stitch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
2 films together
Notably Cheaper by the Dozen
Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Rising Sun
Dean DeBlois
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Bo Welch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat in the Hat
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably 50 First Dates
Angela Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Herbie Fully Loaded
Savage Steve Holland
Director
1 film together
Notably Legally Blondes
Peter Billingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Couples Retreat
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Denise Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Searching for Anna May Wong
Katie Aselton
Director
1 film together
Notably Mack & Rita
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Orion and the Dark
Dean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Brian Tee
Director
1 film together
Notably Enough
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shawn Levy
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Cheaper by the DozenJon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingDean DeBlois
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchDean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
50 First DatesSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Orion and the DarkPhilip Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rising SunAngela Robinson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Herbie Fully LoadedPeter Billingsley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Couples RetreatSavage Steve Holland
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legally BlondesKatie Aselton
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mack & RitaBo Welch
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 Cat in the HatBrian Tee
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EnoughDenise Chan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Searching for Anna May WongSix 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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Female Doctor
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Lilo & Stitch
as Mrs. Hasagawa (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
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. Amy Hill 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
33 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
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Herbie Fully Loaded
as Female Doctor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Orion and the Dark
as Irene (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Orion and the Dark
as Irene (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Decathlon Moderator
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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