Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17238
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Carmel Amit 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.
Carmel Amit appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Carmel. He's Not Worth Dying For is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 romance, tv movie, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Benson, Osgood Perkins, David Winning and others, Carmel Amit 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.
He's Not Worth Dying For (2022) as Ms. G · Field Day (2023) as Marissa Morris · The Neighbor in the Window (2020) as Susie
Career snapshot
Ranked #17238 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
He's Not Worth Dying For
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
He's Not Worth Dying For
Most frequent director
Peter Benson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Peter Benson
Most common genre
TV Movie
6 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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The More the Merrier, Longlegs, Field Day — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. Taking Woodstock.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.21 film | 6.62 films | 7.03 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 5.81 film | 6.53 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.62 films | 6.93 films |
| Horror | — | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Taking Woodstock
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Earthlight Player.
Highest rated performance
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2023Field Day
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 Elena Jones.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Marissa Morris
Directed by David Winning
as Susie
Directed by Menhaj Huda
as Susan Danvers
Directed by Unknown
as Emily
Directed by Monika Mitchell
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
Marissa Morris
Field Day (2023)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marissa Morris gives Carmel Amit a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Susie
The Neighbor in the Window (2020)
Performance score7.4
The Neighbor in the Window asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Susan Danvers
The Dating List (2020)
Performance score7.4
The Dating List asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susan Danvers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ms. G
He's Not Worth Dying For (2022)
Performance score7.3
He's Not Worth Dying For asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ms. G is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Marissa Morris
Start here. Field Day is the clearest statement of what Carmel Amit does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Carmel 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.
To Have and to Hold (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Field Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Neighbor in the Window (2020)
Keeps the tv movie register of To Have and to Hold but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dating List (2020)
Keeps the tv movie register of The Neighbor in the Window but asks for a colder reading of it.
He's Not Worth Dying For (2022)
Keeps the tv movie register of The Dating List but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Taking Woodstock
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Fifty Shades Darker
Monika Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably To Have and to Hold
Menhaj Huda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Neighbor in the Window
Kevin Fair
Director
1 film together
Notably He's Not Worth Dying For
Josh Duhamel
Director
1 film together
Notably Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
David Winning
Director
1 film together
Notably Field Day
Osgood Perkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Longlegs
Peter Benson
Director
1 film together
Notably The More the Merrier
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Fair
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
He's Not Worth Dying ForDavid Winning
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Field DayMenhaj Huda
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Neighbor in the WindowMonika Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Have and to HoldOsgood Perkins
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LonglegsJames Foley
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fifty Shades DarkerPeter Benson
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 More the MerrierAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Taking WoodstockJosh Duhamel
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Buddy Games: Spring AwakeningSix 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
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Ms. G
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fifty Shades Darker
as Whispering Guest at Masked Party
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Ms. G
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Taking Woodstock
as Earthlight Player
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Field Day
as Marissa Morris
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. Carmel Amit 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.
TV Movie Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in tv movie, 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
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Ms. G
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Ms. G
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fifty Shades Darker
as Whispering Guest at Masked Party
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Longlegs
as Anna Carter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Ms. G
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Seventh Son
as Member of Mob
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Taking Woodstock
as Earthlight Player
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
as Phoenix
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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