Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#49833
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Dorothi Fox represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 48 years in, and Dorothi is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dorothi Fox appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dorothi. Good Time is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 action, mystery, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Benny Safdie, Lucia Aniello and others, Dorothi Fox 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.
Good Time (2017) as Elderly Woman in Hospital · Three Days of the Condor (1975) as Nurse · Before We Go (2014) as Woman
Career snapshot
Ranked #49833 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1971–2019
Career length
48 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Good Time
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Three Days of the Condor
Most frequent director
Tim Story
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tim Story
Most common genre
Comedy
4 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
6.9
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
1970s
6.7 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. The Wiz, Three Days of the Condor, Bananas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Wiz, Three Days of the Condor, Bananas.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1970s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.63 films |
| Action | — | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.33 films |
| Crime | — | 6.73 films |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1971Bananas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as J. Edgar Hoover.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Good Time
7.2 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
2019Shaft
The current state of the argument, as Old Lady Neighbor.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Elderly Woman in Hospital
Directed by Benny Safdie
as Woman
Directed by Chris Evans
as J. Edgar Hoover
Directed by Woody Allen
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Elderly Woman in Hospital
Good Time (2017)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Elderly Woman in Hospital gives Dorothi Fox a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nurse
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Performance score7.0
Three Days of the Condor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nurse is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Woman
Before We Go (2014)
Performance score6.7
Before We Go asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Woman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Bananas (1971)
Performance score6.6
Bananas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. J. Edgar Hoover 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 Elderly Woman in Hospital
Start here. Good Time is the clearest statement of what Dorothi Fox does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dorothi 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.
Bananas (1971)
A deliberate change of key after Good Time — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A deliberate change of key after Bananas — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Before We Go (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Three Days of the Condor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Shaft (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Before We Go but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Bananas
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Days of the Condor
Sidney Lumet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wiz
Chris Evans
Director
1 film together
Notably Before We Go
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Run All Night
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Time
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Shaft
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good TimeSydney 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
Three Days of the CondorChris Evans
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before We GoWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BananasTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShaftJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Run All NightSidney Lumet
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 WizLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightSix 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
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Before We Go
as Woman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Good Time
as Elderly Woman in Hospital
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. Dorothi Fox 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
48 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
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
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Before We Go
as Woman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Three Days of the Condor
as Nurse
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Shaft
as Old Lady Neighbor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Shaft
as Old Lady Neighbor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Before We Go
as Woman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wiz
as Aunt Em's Party
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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