Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7726
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chloe Webb 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.
Chloe Webb appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chloe. Heart and Souls is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, transformation, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Griffin Dunne, Richard Linklater, Ron Underwood and others, Chloe Webb 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.
Heart and Souls (1993) as Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited) · Practical Magic (1998) as Carla · Ghostbusters II (1989) as Elaine (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7726 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1986–1998
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Heart and Souls
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Heart and Souls
Most frequent director
Ivan Reitman
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ivan Reitman
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.3
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
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Practical Magic, The Newton Boys, Heart and Souls — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ghostbusters II, Twins, Sid and Nancy.
Most productive era
1980s
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 | 1980s | 1990s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.11 film |
| Action | — | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.92 films |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.71 film | 6.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
1986Sid and Nancy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nancy Spungen. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
1993Heart and Souls
7.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
1998The Newton Boys
The current state of the argument, as Avis Glasscock.
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 Nancy Spungen
Directed by Alex Cox
as Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited)
Directed by Ron Underwood
as Carla
Directed by Griffin Dunne
as Elaine (uncredited)
Directed by Ivan Reitman
as Avis Glasscock
Directed by Richard Linklater
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
Nancy Spungen
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nancy Spungen gives Chloe Webb a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited)
Heart and Souls (1993)
Performance score6.9
Heart and Souls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carla
Practical Magic (1998)
Performance score6.7
Practical Magic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carla is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elaine (uncredited)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Performance score6.6
Ghostbusters II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elaine (uncredited) 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 Nancy Spungen
Start here. Sid and Nancy is the clearest statement of what Chloe Webb does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 6.7 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.
Ghostbusters II (1989)
A deliberate change of key after Sid and Nancy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Heart and Souls (1993)
Keeps the comedy register of Ghostbusters II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Practical Magic (1998)
Keeps the romance register of Heart and Souls but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Newton Boys (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Practical Magic — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ivan Reitman
Director
2 films together
Notably Ghostbusters II
Alex Cox
Director
1 film together
Notably Sid and Nancy
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Heart and Souls
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably The Newton Boys
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together
Notably Practical Magic
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ivan Reitman
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ghostbusters IIRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heart and SoulsGriffin Dunne
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Practical MagicAlex Cox
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sid and NancyRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Newton BoysSix 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
Heart and Souls
as Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sid and Nancy
as Nancy Spungen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Heart and Souls
as Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ghostbusters II
as Elaine (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sid and Nancy
as Nancy Spungen
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 Webb 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 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
Heart and Souls
as Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Newton Boys
as Avis Glasscock
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sid and Nancy
as Nancy Spungen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ghostbusters II
as Elaine (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Newton Boys
as Avis Glasscock
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Newton Boys
as Avis Glasscock
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Newton Boys
as Avis Glasscock
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Twins
as Linda Mason
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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