Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2841
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Evan Rachel Wood represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Evan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Evan Rachel Wood appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Evan. The Wrestler is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, music, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Appel, Miranda July, Gerardo Naranjo and others, Evan Rachel Wood 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 Wrestler (2008) as Stephanie · Frozen II (2019) as Iduna (voice) · Whatever Works (2009) as Melodie St. Ann Celestine
Career snapshot
Ranked #2841 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Wrestler
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Wrestler
Most frequent director
Eric Appel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eric Appel
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Practical Magic — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Practical Magic.
Most productive era
2000s
9 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.36 films | 6.45 films | 5.93 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.13 films | 6.41 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.34 films | 6.54 films | 6.52 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.61 film | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 6.64 films | 6.23 films | 4.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Practical Magic
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kylie Owens.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2008The Wrestler
7.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Stephanie
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
as Melodie St. Ann Celestine
Directed by Woody Allen
as Daisy
Directed by Andrew Fleming
as Iduna (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
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
Stephanie
The Wrestler (2008)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stephanie gives Evan Rachel Wood a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Melodie St. Ann Celestine
Whatever Works (2009)
Performance score7.5
Whatever Works asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Melodie St. Ann Celestine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Daisy
Barefoot (2014)
Performance score7.4
Barefoot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Daisy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Iduna (voice)
Frozen II (2019)
Performance score7.3
Frozen II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Iduna (voice) 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 Stephanie
Start here. The Wrestler is the clearest statement of what Evan Rachel Wood does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Evan 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.
Whatever Works (2009)
Keeps the romance register of The Wrestler but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barefoot (2014)
Keeps the romance register of Whatever Works but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frozen II (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Barefoot but asks for a colder reading of it.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Frozen II but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together
Notably Practical Magic
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably S1m0ne
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Missing
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Upside of Anger
Ryan Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Running with Scissors
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wrestler
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Whatever Works
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Conspirator
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ides of March
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably A Case of You
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Barefoot
Patricia Rozema
Director
1 film together
Notably Into the Forest
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen II
Alex Winter
Director
1 film together
Notably Showbiz Kids
Gerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together
Notably Viena and the Fantomes
Miranda July
Director
1 film together
Notably Kajillionaire
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WrestlerChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frozen IIWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whatever WorksAlex Winter
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Showbiz KidsGriffin 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 MagicEric Appel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarefootGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ides of MarchRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ConspiratorMiranda July
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KajillionaireMike Binder
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 Upside of AngerRon Howard
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 MissingAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
S1m0nePatricia Rozema
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Into the ForestRyan Murphy
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Running with ScissorsKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Case of YouGerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Viena and the FantomesSix 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 Wrestler
as Stephanie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Wrestler
as Stephanie
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 Wrestler
as Stephanie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Showbiz Kids
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wrestler
as Stephanie
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. Evan Rachel Wood 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
28 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Frozen II
as Iduna (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Life Before Her Eyes
as Young Diana
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Viena and the Fantomes
as Susi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Life Before Her Eyes
as Young Diana
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Wrestler
as Stephanie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Battle for Terra
as Mala (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Frozen II
as Iduna (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Case of You
as Birdie Hazel
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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