Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16646
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Eugenia Kuzmina 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.
Eugenia Kuzmina appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eugenia. The Gentlemen is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 horror, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with JT Mollner, Guy Ritchie, Marc Gottlieb and others, Eugenia Kuzmina 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 Gentlemen (2020) as Misha · Fury (2014) as Hilda Meier (uncredited) · Strange Darling (2024) as Beth
Career snapshot
Ranked #16646 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Gentlemen
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Gentlemen
Most frequent director
Guy Ritchie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Guy Ritchie
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Tour de Pharmacy, Dirty Grandpa, The Family Fang — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Tour de Pharmacy, Dirty Grandpa, The Family Fang.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.82 films | — |
| Action | 7.71 film | 6.34 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.74 films |
| Comedy | 6.16 films | 7.12 films |
| Crime | — | 6.52 films |
| Romance | 6.11 film | — |
| Horror | — | 3.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Fading Gigolo
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lady on Street.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Fury
7.7 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 Ascent
The current state of the argument, as Vera.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Misha
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
Directed by David Ayer
as Beth
Directed by JT Mollner
as Finnish Wife
Directed by Jake Szymanski
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
Misha
The Gentlemen (2020)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Misha gives Eugenia Kuzmina a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hilda Meier (uncredited)
Fury (2014)
Performance score7.5
Fury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hilda Meier (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beth
Strange Darling (2024)
Performance score6.8
Strange Darling asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Finnish Wife
Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
Performance score6.6
Tour de Pharmacy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Finnish Wife 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 Misha
Start here. The Gentlemen is the clearest statement of what Eugenia Kuzmina does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eugenia 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.
Fury (2014)
Keeps the action register of The Gentlemen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Fury — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Strange Darling (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Tour de Pharmacy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Ascent (2026)
Keeps the horror register of Strange Darling but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together
Notably The Gentlemen
John Turturro
Director
1 film together
Notably Fading Gigolo
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Fury
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Moms
Jason Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Family Fang
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Grandpa
Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Tour de Pharmacy
Marc Gottlieb
Director
1 film together
Notably Ape vs Mecha Ape
JT Mollner
Director
1 film together
Notably Strange Darling
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guy Ritchie
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The GentlemenDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FuryJT Mollner
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Strange DarlingJake Szymanski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tour de PharmacyJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad MomsTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty GrandpaJason Bateman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Family FangMarc Gottlieb
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ape vs Mecha ApeJohn Turturro
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fading GigoloSix 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
Fury
as Hilda Meier (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
That Awkward Moment
as Girl at the Bar (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fury
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fury
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Gentlemen
as Misha
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. Eugenia Kuzmina 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
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
Fury
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Gentlemen
as Misha
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
That Awkward Moment
as Girl at the Bar (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Family Fang
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Gentlemen
as Misha
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
as Marcia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Fury
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fury
as Hilda Meier (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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