Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#581
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charlotte Rampling represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 62 years in, and Charlotte is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Charlotte Rampling appears in 39 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charlotte. Dune: Part Two is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 documentary, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Denis Villeneuve, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Verhoeven and others, Charlotte Rampling 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.
Dune: Part Two (2024) as Reverend Mother Mohiam · Dune: Part Two (2024) as Reverend Mother Mohiam · Dune (2021) as Reverend Mother Mohiam
Career snapshot
Ranked #581 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
39
1964–2026
Career length
62 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Dune: Part Two
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Dune: Part Two
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.8
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
1960s
7.0 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. The Damned, A Hard Day's Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Nostalgia for the Future, Dune: Part Three, Father Mother Sister Brother.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.73 films | 6.91 film | 6.91 film | 6.45 films | 6.57 films |
| Action | — | 6.52 films | — | 6.32 films | 5.51 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.54 films | — | 5.94 films | 6.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | — | 6.91 film | — | — | 5.94 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | — | — | 9.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | — | 6.02 films | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film | 6.91 film | 6.91 film | 6.91 film | 5.82 films |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | 7.11 film | — | 5.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Girl at Disco (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Dune: Part Two
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2026Dune: Part Three
The current state of the argument, as Reverend Mother Mohiam.
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.
39 of 39 films
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
Directed by Unknown
as Ruth
Directed by Matthew J. Saville
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 41 titles · 41 total credits · active 1964–2026
Nostalgia for the Future
2026 · Voice (narrator)
Dune: Part Three
2026 · Reverend Mother Mohiam
Father Mother Sister Brother
2025 · Mother
Two Pianos
2025 · Elena
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Reverend Mother Mohiam
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
2023 · Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
Unknown Beauty: François Nars
2023 · Self
Dune
2021 · Reverend Mother Mohiam
Benedetta
2021 · Sister Felicita
Juniper
2021 · Ruth
Everything Went Fine
2021 · Claude de Soria
Morceaux de Cannes
2021 · Actor
Last Words
2020 · Batlk
Valley of the Gods
2020 · Amanda Joyce
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
2020 · Self
I Love You Coiffure
2020 · Childcare Worker (segment "Le Nounours")
Waiting for the Miracle to Come
2019 · Dixie Riggs
Red Sparrow
2018 · Matron
The Little Stranger
2018 · Mrs. Ayres
Euphoria
2018 · Marina
Assassin's Creed
2016 · Ellen Kaye
London Spy
2015 · TV · Frances
Broadchurch
2013 · TV · Jocelyn Knight
Cleanskin
2012 · Charlotte McQueen
The defining work
#1
Reverend Mother Mohiam
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Reverend Mother Mohiam gives Charlotte Rampling a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Reverend Mother Mohiam
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score7.9
Dune: Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reverend Mother Mohiam is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reverend Mother Mohiam
Dune (2021)
Performance score7.8
Dune asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reverend Mother Mohiam is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling (2023)
Performance score7.4
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee 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 Reverend Mother Mohiam
Start here. Dune: Part Two is the clearest statement of what Charlotte Rampling does — accessible, 166 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charlotte 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.
Dune (2021)
Same director as Dune: Part Two, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Juniper (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Dune — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Juniper — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
A deliberate change of key after The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
4 films together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Richard Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably A Hard Day's Night
Luchino Visconti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Damned
Richard C. Sarafian
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanishing Point
John Boorman
Director
1 film together
Notably Zardoz
Liliana Cavani
Director
1 film together
Notably The Night Porter
Dick Richards
Director
1 film together
Notably Farewell, My Lovely
Michael Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Orca
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Stardust Memories
Alan Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably Angel Heart
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy Game
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Basic Instinct 2
Mathieu Kassovitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon A.D.
Saul Dibb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duchess
Mark Romanek
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Let Me Go
Lars von Trier
Director
1 film together
Notably Melancholia
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassin's Creed
Lisa Langseth
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria
Lenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Stranger
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Sparrow
Muriel Robin
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love You Coiffure
Gero von Boehm
Director
1 film together
Notably Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
François Ozon
Director
1 film together
Notably Everything Went Fine
Matthew J. Saville
Director
1 film together
Notably Juniper
Paul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together
Notably Benedetta
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Father Mother Sister Brother
Timothée Chalamet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Zendaya
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Rebecca Ferguson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Javier Bardem
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Josh Brolin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Austin Butler
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Stellan Skarsgård
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Souheila Yacoub
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
4 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dune: Part TwoLars von Trier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MelancholiaAlan Parker
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angel HeartRichard Lester
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Hard Day's NightMark Romanek
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Let Me GoSaul Dibb
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuchessTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spy GameWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stardust MemoriesRichard C. Sarafian
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vanishing PointLuchino Visconti
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DamnedPaul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BenedettaMatthew J. Saville
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JuniperFrançois Ozon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everything Went FineDick Richards
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Farewell, My LovelyLiliana Cavani
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Night PorterFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red SparrowJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father Mother Sister BrotherLisa Langseth
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuphoriaMichael Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OrcaGero von Boehm
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the BeautifulJohn Boorman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZardozLenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little StrangerMathieu Kassovitz
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Babylon A.D.Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassin's CreedMichael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Basic Instinct 2Muriel Robin
Director
1 film together · 3.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love You CoiffureSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2025
Dune: Part Two
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
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 Duchess
as Lady Spencer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spy Game
as Anne Cathcart
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
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. Charlotte Rampling has known it for a long time.”
“Long live the fighters.”
“I will love you as long as I breathe.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #286 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Physical performance | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2024–2024 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Reverend Mother Mohiam — Dune: Part Two | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Dune: Part Two | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Timothée Chalamet · Florence Pugh
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
62 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
18 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
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Two Pianos
as Elena
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Sparrow
as Matron
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Assassin's Creed
as Ellen Kaye
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stardust Memories
as Dorrie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dune: Part Two
as Reverend Mother Mohiam
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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