Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#627
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hailee Steinfeld 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.
Hailee Steinfeld appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hailee. The Big Night In is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bob Persichetti, Jason Hand, Ryan Coogler and others, Hailee Steinfeld 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 Big Night In (2020) as Self · Sinners (2025) as Mary · Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as Gwen Stacy (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #627 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2010–2027
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Big Night In
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
The Big Night In
Most frequent director
Ryan Coogler
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ryan Coogler
Most common genre
Action
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Charlie's Angels, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Charlie's Angels, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Most productive era
2010s
18 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 | 6.510 films | 8.71 film |
| Action | 6.67 films | 5.54 films |
| Thriller | 6.03 films | 8.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.58 films | 9.01 film |
| Romance | 6.53 films | — |
| Horror | — | 8.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010True Grit
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mattie Ross.
Career peak
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance
2020The Big Night In
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
The current state of the argument, as Gwen Stacy (voice).
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.
27 of 27 films
as Mary
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Gwen Stacy (voice)
Directed by Peter Ramsey
as Gwen Stacy (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Mary
Directed by Ryan Coogler
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 32 titles · 33 total credits · active 1969–2027
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027 · Gwen Stacy (voice)
Hexed
2026 · Billie Doe (voice)
Sinners
2025 · Mary
Marvel Zombies
2025 · TV · Kate Bishop (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · Gwen Stacy (voice)
The Marvels
2023 · Kate Bishop
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022 · Self - Kate Bishop
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · Kate Bishop (archive footage)
Arcane
2021 · TV · Vi (voice)
Hawkeye
2021 · TV · Kate Bishop
The Big Night In
2020 · Self
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019 · Hailee Steinfeld
Charlie's Angels
2019 · Angel Recruit
Dickinson
2019 · TV · Emily Dickinson · Executive Producer
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Gwen Stacy (voice)
Bumblebee
2018 · Charlie Watson
Pitch Perfect 3
2017 · Emily Junk
Term Life
2016 · Cate Barrow
The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · Nadine Franklin
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 · TV · Self - Guest
10,000 Saints
2015 · Eliza Urbanski
Barely Lethal
2015 · 83 / Megan Walsh
Pitch Perfect 2
2015 · Emily Junk
Begin Again
2014 · Violet Mulligan
The defining work
#1
Mary
Sinners (2025)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mary gives Hailee Steinfeld a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gwen Stacy (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Performance score8.8
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gwen Stacy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gwen Stacy (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.7
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gwen Stacy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
The Big Night In (2020)
Performance score8.6
The Big Night In asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Mary
Start here. Sinners is the clearest statement of what Hailee Steinfeld does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hailee 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.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Sinners — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Big Night In (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Big Night In — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sinners (2025)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Elizabeth Banks
Director
2 films together
Notably Pitch Perfect 2
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together
Notably Sinners
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably True Grit
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Ender's Game
Liza Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Hateship Loveship
Tommy Lee Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably The Homesman
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 Days to Kill
John Carney
Director
1 film together
Notably Begin Again
Shari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together
Notably 10,000 Saints
Peter Billingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Term Life
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Bumblebee
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marvels
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Jason Hand
Director
1 film together
Notably Hexed
Bob Persichetti
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Michael B. Jordan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Miles Caton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jack O'Connell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jayme Lawson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Omar Benson Miller
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Delroy Lindo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Li Jun Li
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Yao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Lola Kirke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Peter Dreimanis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Buddy Guy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SinnersElizabeth Banks
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pitch Perfect 2Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseJoaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True GritBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of HawkeyeJohn Carney
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Begin AgainTravis Knight
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BumblebeeGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ender's GameTommy Lee Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HomesmanMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 Days to KillPeter Billingsley
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Term LifeShari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10,000 SaintsNia DaCosta
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 MarvelsScott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieLiza Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hateship LoveshipBob Persichetti
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-VerseJason Hand
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HexedSix 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
Sinners
as Mary
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Begin Again
as Violet Mulligan
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 Big Night In
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Kate Bishop (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sinners
as Mary
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. Hailee Steinfeld has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #543 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.7 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, Drama | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Ryan Coogler | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2025–2025 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Mary — Sinners | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Sinners | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in action, 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 Big Night In
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sinners
as Mary
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Begin Again
as Violet Mulligan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Term Life
as Cate Barrow
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Gwen Stacy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Gwen Stacy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Begin Again
as Violet Mulligan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sinners
as Mary
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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