Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4214
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bella Thorne 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.
Bella Thorne appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bella. Midnight Sun is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Graham Phillips, Elisa Amoruso, McG and others, Bella Thorne 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.
Midnight Sun (2018) as Katie Price · Blended (2014) as Hilary · Time Is Up (2021) as Vivien
Career snapshot
Ranked #4214 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2003–2025
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Midnight Sun
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Midnight Sun
Most frequent director
Elisa Amoruso
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Elisa Amoruso
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
2010s
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Midnight Sun, Assassination Nation, I Still See You — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Stuck on You.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | — | 6.82 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | — | 5.81 film | 6.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.42 films | 5.36 films |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | 6.26 films | 5.63 films |
| Crime | — | — | 5.22 films |
| Romance | — | 7.32 films | 6.32 films |
| Horror | — | 6.03 films | 5.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Stuck on You
Where our catalogue meets this career, as MV Sideline Fan (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Midnight Sun
7.8 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
The current state of the argument, as Lavinia.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Katie Price
Directed by Scott Speer
as Vivien
Directed by Elisa Amoruso
as Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder
Directed by Scott Speer
as Hilary
Directed by Frank Coraci
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
Katie Price
Midnight Sun (2018)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Katie Price gives Bella Thorne a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vivien
Time Is Up (2021)
Performance score7.2
Time Is Up asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vivien is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder
I Still See You (2018)
Performance score7.2
I Still See You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hilary
Blended (2014)
Performance score7.1
Blended asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hilary 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 Katie Price
Start here. Midnight Sun is the clearest statement of what Bella Thorne does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bella 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.
Blended (2014)
Keeps the romance register of Midnight Sun but asks for a colder reading of it.
I Still See You (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Blended — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Time Is Up (2021)
A deliberate change of key after I Still See You — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rumble Through the Dark (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Time Is Up — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Scott Speer
Director
2 films together
Notably Midnight Sun
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Elisa Amoruso
Director
2 films together
Notably Time Is Up
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck on You
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Frenemies
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably Blended
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Nation
Paul Leyden
Director
1 film together
Notably Chick Fight
Chad Faust
Director
1 film together
Notably Girl
Graham Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Rumble Through the Dark
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Scott Speer
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Midnight SunElisa Amoruso
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Time Is UpMcG
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Babysitter: Killer QueenFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlendedGraham Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rumble Through the DarkSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination NationMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayChad Faust
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GirlPaul Leyden
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chick FightDaisy von Scherler Mayer
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrenemiesBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck on YouSix 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
Midnight Sun
as Katie Price
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Midnight Sun
as Katie Price
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Midnight Sun
as Katie Price
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stuck on You
as MV Sideline Fan (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Midnight Sun
as Katie Price
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. Bella Thorne 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
22 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
10 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
I Still See You
as Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
I Still See You
as Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Game of Love
as Vivien
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
I Still See You
as Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Midnight Sun
as Katie Price
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ratchet & Clank
as Cora Veralux (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
as Ashley Grey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Amityville: The Awakening
as Belle Walker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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