Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1661
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Blake Lively 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.
Blake Lively appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Blake. Deadpool & Wolverine 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 mystery, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Feig, Chris Hackett, Justin Baldoni and others, Blake Lively 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.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as Ladypool (voice) · The Age of Adaline (2015) as Adaline Bowman · The Town (2010) as Krista Coughlin
Career snapshot
Ranked #1661 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Deadpool & Wolverine
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine
Most frequent director
Paul Feig
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Paul Feig
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Another Simple Favor, In Dispute: Lively v. Baldoni, It Ends with Us — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, New York, I Love You.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.24 films | 6.47 films | 7.01 film |
| Action | — | 5.21 film | 6.72 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.45 films | 5.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.25 films | 6.23 films | 6.83 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Romance | 6.13 films | 7.02 films | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bridget Vreeland.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025In Dispute: Lively v. Baldoni
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage).
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 Adaline Bowman
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
as Lily Bloom
Directed by Justin Baldoni
as Ladypool (voice)
Directed by Shawn Levy
as Krista Coughlin
Directed by Ben Affleck
as Nancy Adams
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
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
Adaline Bowman
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Adaline Bowman gives Blake Lively a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lily Bloom
It Ends with Us (2024)
Performance score7.6
It Ends with Us asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lily Bloom is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ladypool (voice)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ladypool (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Krista Coughlin
The Town (2010)
Performance score7.3
The Town asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Krista Coughlin 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 Adaline Bowman
Start here. The Age of Adaline is the clearest statement of what Blake Lively does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Blake 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.
The Town (2010)
Keeps the drama register of The Age of Adaline but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Shallows (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Town but asks for a colder reading of it.
It Ends with Us (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Shallows but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
A deliberate change of key after It Ends with Us — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul Feig
Director
2 films together
Notably A Simple Favor
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Accepted
Fatih Akin
Director
1 film together
Notably New York, I Love You
Sanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Rebecca Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably The Town
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Lantern
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Savages
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Age of Adaline
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Café Society
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably The Shallows
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably All I See Is You
Reed Morano
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rhythm Section
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably IF
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably It Ends with Us
Chris Hackett
Director
1 film together
Notably In Dispute: Lively v. Baldoni
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Feig
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Simple FavorShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Age of AdalineBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TownJustin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It Ends with UsJohn Krasinski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IFSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AcceptedKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ShallowsWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Café SocietyOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SavagesSanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Fatih Akin
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York, I Love YouRebecca Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Private Lives of Pippa LeeChris Hackett
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Dispute: Lively v. BaldoniReed Morano
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rhythm SectionMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All I See Is YouMartin Campbell
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green LanternSix 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
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Ladypool (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Age of Adaline
as Adaline Bowman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Ladypool (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Ladypool (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Age of Adaline
as Adaline Bowman
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. Blake Lively 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
20 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
12 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
The Age of Adaline
as Adaline Bowman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Town
as Krista Coughlin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
It Ends with Us
as Lily Bloom
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Simple Favor
as Emily Nelson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Ladypool (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Green Lantern
as Carol Ferris
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Café Society
as Veronica Hayes
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Ladypool (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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