Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7200
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gabrielle Rose represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Gabrielle is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gabrielle Rose appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gabrielle. Maudie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 mystery, horror, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Stein, Austin Andrews, Peter Benson and others, Gabrielle Rose 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.
Maudie (2016) as Aunt Ida · If I Stay (2014) as Gran · Christmas Above the Clouds (2025) as Marlene Jacobson
Career snapshot
Ranked #7200 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
1994–2025
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Maudie
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Maudie
Most frequent director
Atom Egoyan
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Atom Egoyan
Most common genre
Drama
11 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
6.5
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Final Destination Bloodlines, Die My Love, The Island Between Tides — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Double Jeopardy, The Sweet Hereafter, Timecop.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.91 film | 6.02 films | 6.67 films | 6.11 film |
| Action | 6.01 film | 7.11 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 6.11 film | 6.03 films | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.02 films | 6.23 films | 7.21 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 5.91 film | 7.81 film | 7.21 film |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | — | 6.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Timecop
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Judge Marshall.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Maudie
7.8 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
2025Christmas Above the Clouds
The current state of the argument, as Marlene Jacobson.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Aunt Ida
Directed by Aisling Walsh
as Marlene Jacobson
Directed by Peter Benson
as Iris (Present Day)
Directed by Adam Stein
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Aunt Ida
Maudie (2016)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Aunt Ida gives Gabrielle Rose a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marlene Jacobson
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
Performance score7.3
Christmas Above the Clouds asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marlene Jacobson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gran
If I Stay (2014)
Performance score7.2
If I Stay asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gran is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dolores Driscoll
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Performance score7.1
The Sweet Hereafter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dolores Driscoll 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 Aunt Ida
Start here. Maudie is the clearest statement of what Gabrielle Rose does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gabrielle 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.
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Keeps the drama register of Maudie but asks for a colder reading of it.
If I Stay (2014)
Keeps the drama register of The Sweet Hereafter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
A deliberate change of key after If I Stay — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Christmas Above the Clouds — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Atom Egoyan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Sweet Hereafter
Peter Hyams
Director
1 film together
Notably Timecop
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Double Jeopardy
Susannah Grant
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch and Release
Uwe Boll
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Robert C. Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Company You Keep
R.J. Cutler
Director
1 film together
Notably If I Stay
Aisling Walsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Maudie
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The BFG
Jamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Virginia
Anthony Shim
Director
1 film together
Notably Daughter
Ali Liebert
Director
1 film together
Notably Amish Abduction
Peter Benson
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas Above the Clouds
Austin Andrews
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island Between Tides
Adam Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination Bloodlines
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Atom Egoyan
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
The Sweet HereafterAisling Walsh
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaudieR.J. Cutler
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
If I StayPeter Benson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas Above the CloudsAdam Stein
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final Destination BloodlinesRobert C. Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stargate: The Ark of TruthAustin Andrews
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Island Between TidesBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Double JeopardySteven Spielberg
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 BFGAnthony Shim
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DaughterRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Company You KeepDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big YearKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodyPeter Hyams
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TimecopJamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet VirginiaSusannah Grant
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch and ReleaseAli Liebert
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amish AbductionUwe Boll
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege TaleSix 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
Maudie
as Aunt Ida
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Maudie
as Aunt Ida
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Maudie
as Aunt Ida
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Big Year
as Mary Swit
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Maudie
as Aunt Ida
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. Gabrielle Rose 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
31 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
11 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
Final Destination Bloodlines
as Iris (Present Day)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Final Destination Bloodlines
as Iris (Present Day)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Maudie
as Aunt Ida
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Where the Truth Lies
as Publishing Executive
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Alteran Woman #2
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Alteran Woman #2
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Catch and Release
as Mrs. Wheeler
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Final Destination Bloodlines
as Iris (Present Day)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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