Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2249
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Camille Guaty works on quiet performance 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.
Camille Guaty appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Camille. Nappily Ever After is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cyrus Nowrasteh, Carlos Saldanha, David Wain and others, Camille Guaty 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.
Nappily Ever After (2018) as Wendy · Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) as Junior Detective Silva · A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) as Alex Garcia-Mata
Career snapshot
Ranked #2249 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Nappily Ever After
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Nappily Ever After
Most frequent director
Cyrus Nowrasteh
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Cyrus Nowrasteh
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
6.2
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Nappily Ever After, Cake — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | — | 6.73 films | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.82 films | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Donna the Bridesmaid.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.2 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
2026Dark Horse
The current state of the argument, as Michelle Bolsonaro.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Wendy
Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour
as Junior Detective Silva
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
as Michelle Bolsonaro
Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh
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
Wendy
Nappily Ever After (2018)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Wendy gives Camille Guaty a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Junior Detective Silva
Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
Performance score6.6
Harold and the Purple Crayon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Junior Detective Silva is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Michelle Bolsonaro
Dark Horse (2026)
Performance score6.5
Dark Horse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michelle Bolsonaro is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alex Garcia-Mata
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
Performance score6.5
A Futile and Stupid Gesture asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alex Garcia-Mata 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 Wendy
Start here. Nappily Ever After is the clearest statement of what Camille Guaty does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Camille 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.
Cake (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Nappily Ever After but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Cake but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of A Futile and Stupid Gesture but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dark Horse (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Harold and the Purple Crayon — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together
Notably Cake
Haifaa al-Mansour
Director
1 film together
Notably Nappily Ever After
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Harold and the Purple Crayon
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Horse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haifaa al-Mansour
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nappily Ever AfterCarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harold and the Purple CrayonDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Futile and Stupid GestureDaniel Barnz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CakeMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghosts of Girlfriends PastCyrus Nowrasteh
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark HorseSix 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
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cake
as Tina
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
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. Camille Guaty 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.
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
4 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
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Harold and the Purple Crayon
as Junior Detective Silva
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Harold and the Purple Crayon
as Junior Detective Silva
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nappily Ever After
as Wendy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
as Alex Garcia-Mata
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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