Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7411
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Christine Ebersole represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 44 years in, and Christine is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Christine Ebersole appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Christine. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, action, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jessica Harmon, Bradley Cooper, Paul Thomas Anderson and others, Christine Ebersole 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.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Leah Belfort · Amadeus (1984) as Katerina Cavalieri · Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) as White Diamond (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7411 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1982–2026
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Wolf of Wall Street
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Steven Universe: The Movie
Most frequent director
Jessica Harmon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jessica Harmon
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.9
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Steven Universe: The Movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Wedding — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Mac and Me, Amadeus, Tootsie.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.01 film | 6.51 film | — | 8.31 film | 6.83 films |
| Action | — | — | — | — | 5.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.52 films | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.12 films | 6.51 film | 7.12 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film | — | 8.31 film | — |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.41 film | 6.51 film | — | 6.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982Tootsie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Linda.
Career peak
1984Amadeus
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Starbright
The current state of the argument, as Grace.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Leah Belfort
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Katerina Cavalieri
Directed by Miloš Forman
as White Diamond (voice)
Directed by Rebecca Sugar
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
Leah Belfort
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Leah Belfort gives Christine Ebersole a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Katerina Cavalieri
Amadeus (1984)
Performance score8.0
Amadeus asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katerina Cavalieri is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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White Diamond (voice)
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
Performance score7.5
Steven Universe: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. White Diamond (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vivien
I'll Be Seeing You (2026)
Performance score7.4
I'll Be Seeing You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vivien 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 Leah Belfort
Start here. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest statement of what Christine Ebersole does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Christine 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.
Amadeus (1984)
Keeps the drama register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Amadeus — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Driveways (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Steven Universe: The Movie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
I'll Be Seeing You (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Driveways — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably Tootsie
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together
Notably Amadeus
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Again
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably True Crime
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Shopaholic
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
Rebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together
Notably Steven Universe: The Movie
Andrew Ahn
Director
1 film together
Notably Driveways
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Licorice Pizza
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Is This Thing On?
Jessica Harmon
Director
1 film together
Notably I'll Be Seeing You
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetMiloš Forman
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmadeusRebecca Sugar
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Steven Universe: The MovieSydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TootsieJessica Harmon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'll Be Seeing YouAndrew Ahn
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrivewaysPaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Licorice PizzaBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is This Thing On?P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a ShopaholicClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True CrimeKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead AgainDonald Petrie
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ri¢hie Ri¢hSix 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
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Amadeus
as Katerina Cavalieri
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tootsie
as Linda
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
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. Christine Ebersole 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
44 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
8 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
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Amadeus
as Katerina Cavalieri
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
True Crime
as Bridget Rossiter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Starbright
as Grace
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Leah Belfort
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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