Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17887
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Angela Winkler represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 47 years in, and Angela is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Angela Winkler appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Angela. Suspiria is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, music, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Luca Guadagnino, Olivier Assayas, Volker Schlöndorff, Angela Winkler 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.
Suspiria (2018) as Miss Tanner · The Tin Drum (1979) as Agnes Matzerath · Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) as Rosa Melchior
Career snapshot
Ranked #17887 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1979–2026
Career length
47 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Suspiria
Average Nutevio score
3.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
The Tin Drum
Most frequent director
Luca Guadagnino
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Luca Guadagnino
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.5
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
1970s
6.8 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. The Tin Drum — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Tin Drum.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 1970s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 6.82 films | 1.64 films |
| Horror | — | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
1979The Tin Drum
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Agnes Matzerath. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2018Suspiria
6.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Mrs Winkler Leaves the House
The current state of the argument, as Mrs. Winkler.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Agnes Matzerath
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
as Miss Tanner
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
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
Agnes Matzerath
The Tin Drum (1979)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Agnes Matzerath gives Angela Winkler a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Miss Tanner
Suspiria (2018)
Performance score7.1
Suspiria asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miss Tanner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rosa Melchior
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Performance score6.6
Clouds of Sils Maria asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rosa Melchior is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Winkler
Mrs Winkler Leaves the House (2026)
Performance score6.5
Mrs Winkler Leaves the House asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Winkler 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 Agnes Matzerath
Start here. The Tin Drum is the clearest statement of what Angela Winkler does — accessible, 162 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Angela 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.
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Keeps the drama register of The Tin Drum but asks for a colder reading of it.
Suspiria (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Clouds of Sils Maria but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hotel Metamorphosis @ Festival of Salzburg 2025 (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Suspiria but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mrs Winkler Leaves the House (2026)
Same director as Hotel Metamorphosis @ Festival of Salzburg 2025, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuspiriaVolker Schlöndorff
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tin DrumOlivier Assayas
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clouds of Sils MariaSix 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
Suspiria
as Miss Tanner
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sisi & I
as Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
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 Tin Drum
as Agnes Matzerath
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Clouds of Sils Maria
as Rosa Melchior
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Tin Drum
as Agnes Matzerath
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. Angela Winkler 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
47 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
7 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
Suspiria
as Miss Tanner
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Suspiria
as Miss Tanner
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sisi & I
as Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Suspiria
as Miss Tanner
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Suspiria
as Miss Tanner
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Tin Drum
as Agnes Matzerath
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Tin Drum
as Agnes Matzerath
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mrs Winkler Leaves the House
as Mrs. Winkler
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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