Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6162
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chloe Fineman 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.
Chloe Fineman appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chloe. Love Language is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Morgan Neville, Josh Greenbaum, Nisha Ganatra and others, Chloe Fineman 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.
Love Language (2026) · Babylon (2022) as Marion Davies · Despicable Me 4 (2024) as Patsy Prescott (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6162 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2022–2026
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Love Language
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Love Language
Most frequent director
Morgan Neville
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Morgan Neville
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
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. Lorne, Love Language, The Dink — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 14 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
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Lorne, Love Language, The Dink.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.26 films |
| Action | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.910 films |
| Romance | 8.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2022Babylon
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Marion Davies.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Love Language
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026The Dink
The current state of the argument, as Marisa.
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.
14 of 14 films
Directed by Unknown
as Marion Davies
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Santa Monica
Directed by Jillian Bell
as Patsy Prescott (voice)
Directed by Chris Renaud
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Love Language
Love Language (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Chloe Fineman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marion Davies
Babylon (2022)
Performance score7.2
Babylon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marion Davies is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Santa Monica
Summer of 69 (2025)
Performance score7.1
Summer of 69 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Santa Monica is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marisa
The Dink (2026)
Performance score7.0
The Dink asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marisa 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
Start here. Love Language is the clearest statement of what Chloe Fineman does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chloe 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.
Babylon (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Love Language but asks for a colder reading of it.
Despicable Me 4 (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Babylon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Summer of 69 (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Despicable Me 4 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dink (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Summer of 69 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably White Noise
Gary Alazraki
Director
1 film together
Notably Father of the Bride
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Megalopolis
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably Despicable Me 4
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Megadoc
Jillian Bell
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer of 69
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably Freakier Friday
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dink
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabylonChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Despicable Me 4Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LorneNisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freakier FridayJosh Greenbaum
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 DinkMike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegadocJillian Bell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer of 69Gary Alazraki
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father of the BrideNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White NoiseFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegalopolisSix 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
Love Language
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Lannie (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Love Language
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babylon
as Marion Davies
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Love Language
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. Chloe Fineman 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.
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
Love Language
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Love Language
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Lannie (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Freakier Friday
as GiGi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Love Language
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Despicable Me 4
as Patsy Prescott (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Baby Shark's Big Movie
as Lannie (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dink
as Marisa
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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