Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6757
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
AnnaSophia Robb 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.
AnnaSophia Robb appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without AnnaSophia. Words on Bathroom Walls is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Farrelly, Jeremy Saulnier, Thor Freudenthal and others, AnnaSophia Robb 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.
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) as Rebecca · Bridge to Terabithia (2007) as Leslie Burke · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) as Violet Beauregarde
Career snapshot
Ranked #6757 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Words on Bathroom Walls
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Words on Bathroom Walls
Most frequent director
Peter Farrelly
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Peter Farrelly
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Race to Witch Mountain, Jumper, Bridge to Terabithia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. Race to Witch Mountain, Jumper, Bridge to Terabithia.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 7.02 films | 6.32 films | 5.15 films |
| Action | 6.02 films | — | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | 5.81 film | 5.61 film | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 7.11 film | 4.81 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.52 films |
| Romance | — | — | 7.71 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 5.61 film | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Violet Beauregarde.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026I Play Rocky
The current state of the argument, as Sasha Czack.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Leslie Burke
Directed by Gábor Csupó
as Summer McBride
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
as Susanna Thompson
Directed by Jim Rash
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
Rebecca
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rebecca gives AnnaSophia Robb a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Leslie Burke
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Performance score7.7
Bridge to Terabithia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leslie Burke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Summer McBride
Rebel Ridge (2024)
Performance score7.4
Rebel Ridge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Summer McBride is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Susanna Thompson
The Way Way Back (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Way Way Back asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susanna Thompson 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 Rebecca
Start here. Words on Bathroom Walls is the clearest statement of what AnnaSophia Robb does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet AnnaSophia 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.
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Keeps the drama register of Words on Bathroom Walls but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Keeps the family register of Because of Winn-Dixie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Way Way Back (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Bridge to Terabithia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rebel Ridge (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Way Way Back but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Stephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Reaping
Gábor Csupó
Director
1 film together
Notably Bridge to Terabithia
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumper
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Race to Witch Mountain
Anthony Silverston
Director
1 film together
Notably Khumba
Jim Rash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Way Way Back
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Down a Dark Hall
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Words on Bathroom Walls
Jeremy Saulnier
Director
1 film together
Notably Rebel Ridge
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably I Play Rocky
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Words on Bathroom WallsGábor Csupó
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bridge to TerabithiaTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryJim Rash
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Way Way BackJeremy Saulnier
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rebel RidgeDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JumperAnthony Silverston
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KhumbaAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Race to Witch MountainStephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReapingRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Down a Dark HallPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Play RockySix 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
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Violet Beauregarde
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
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. AnnaSophia Robb 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rebel Ridge
as Summer McBride
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Down a Dark Hall
as Kit
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bridge to Terabithia
as Leslie Burke
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Race to Witch Mountain
as Sara
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Words on Bathroom Walls
as Rebecca
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Violet Beauregarde
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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