Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4185
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Audrey Wasilewski represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Audrey is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Audrey Wasilewski appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Audrey. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Erica Tremblay, Daniel Kwan, Sam Raimi and others, Audrey Wasilewski 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.
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) as Chef Sue / Librarian (voice) · Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) as Alpha RV Officer · Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Soul of the Damned (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4185 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1998–2024
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Most frequent director
Genndy Tartakovsky
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Genndy Tartakovsky
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.5
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
2020s
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Fancy Dance, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Gia.
Most productive era
2000s
9 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 | 7.11 film | 6.22 films | 6.81 film | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 5.23 films | 6.62 films | 7.43 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.07 films | 7.14 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.52 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Gia
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wilhelmina's Receptionist.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
8.0 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
2024Fancy Dance
The current state of the argument, as Nancy.
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 Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
Directed by Doug Murphy
as Alpha RV Officer
Directed by Daniel Kwan
as Soul of the Damned (voice)
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Nurse (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Wilhelmina's Receptionist
Directed by Michael Cristofer
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
Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chef Sue / Librarian (voice) gives Audrey Wasilewski a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alpha RV Officer
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Performance score7.6
Everything Everywhere All at Once asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alpha RV Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Soul of the Damned (voice)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Performance score7.2
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Soul of the Damned (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nurse (voice)
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Performance score7.0
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nurse (voice) 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 Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
Start here. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is the clearest statement of what Audrey Wasilewski does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Audrey 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.
Gia (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Gia — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Keeps the action register of DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family but asks for a colder reading of it.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Keeps the action register of Everything Everywhere All at Once but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nancy Meyers
Director
2 films together
Notably Something's Gotta Give
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Michael Cristofer
Director
1 film together
Notably Gia
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Bart Freundlich
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch That Kid
Pieter Jan Brugge
Director
1 film together
Notably The Clearing
John Pasquin
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Pete Michels
Director
1 film together
Notably Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Steve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together
Notably Barnyard
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Evan Almighty
Spencer Susser
Director
1 film together
Notably Hesher
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably RED
Doug Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Bruce Timm
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Daniel Kwan
Director
1 film together
Notably Everything Everywhere All at Once
Erica Tremblay
Director
1 film together
Notably Fancy Dance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationNancy Meyers
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Something's Gotta GiveDoug Murphy
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet GhostDaniel Kwan
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everything Everywhere All at OnceSam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyMichael Cristofer
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GiaPete Michels
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stewie Griffin: The Untold StorySpencer Susser
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HesherRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
REDErica Tremblay
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fancy DanceBruce Timm
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: Sgt. RockSteve Oedekerk
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarnyardPieter Jan Brugge
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 ClearingJohn Pasquin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and FabulousTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evan AlmightyBart Freundlich
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch That KidRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adventures of Pluto NashSix 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
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Alpha RV Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Gia
as Wilhelmina's Receptionist
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
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. Audrey Wasilewski 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
26 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
11 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
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
as Chef Sue / Librarian (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Alpha RV Officer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gia
as Wilhelmina's Receptionist
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Clearing
as Lisa
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Alpha RV Officer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Everything Everywhere All at Once
as Alpha RV Officer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Something's Gotta Give
as Hamptons Nurse
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Soul of the Damned (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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