Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2992
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Haley Lu Richardson 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.
Haley Lu Richardson appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Haley. Five Feet Apart is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gore Verbinski, Kogonada, Rachel Lee Goldenberg and others, Haley Lu Richardson 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.
Five Feet Apart (2019) as Stella Grant · Love at First Sight (2023) as Hadley Sullivan · Split (2017) as Claire Benoit
Career snapshot
Ranked #2992 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Five Feet Apart
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Five Feet Apart
Most frequent director
Kogonada
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kogonada
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Five Feet Apart, Operation Finale, Split — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Five Feet Apart, Operation Finale, Split.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 7.04 films | 5.35 films |
| Action | — | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 7.02 films |
| Romance | 8.21 film | 3.62 films |
| Horror | 7.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Krista.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Five Feet Apart
8.2 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
2026Zi
The current state of the argument, as Elle.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Stella Grant
Directed by Justin Baldoni
as Claire Benoit
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
as Ingrid
Directed by Gore Verbinski
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Stella Grant
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stella Grant gives Haley Lu Richardson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hadley Sullivan
Love at First Sight (2023)
Performance score7.9
Love at First Sight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hadley Sullivan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claire Benoit
Split (2017)
Performance score7.6
Split asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire Benoit is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Krista
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Performance score7.6
The Edge of Seventeen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Krista 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 Stella Grant
Start here. Five Feet Apart is the clearest statement of what Haley Lu Richardson does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Haley 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 Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Five Feet Apart but asks for a colder reading of it.
Split (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Edge of Seventeen — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love at First Sight (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Split — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Love at First Sight — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kogonada
Director
2 films together
Notably After Yang
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Split
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Operation Finale
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably Five Feet Apart
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Unpregnant
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kogonada
Director
2 films together · 3.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
After YangJustin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Five Feet ApartM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SplitGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't DieRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnpregnantChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Operation FinaleSix 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
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Operation Finale
as Sylvia Hermann
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
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. Haley Lu Richardson 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Split
as Claire Benoit
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Love at First Sight
as Hadley Sullivan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Split
as Claire Benoit
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Five Feet Apart
as Stella Grant
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
as Ingrid
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love at First Sight
as Hadley Sullivan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Unpregnant
as Veronica Clarke
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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