Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#631
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Hudson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Kate is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kate Hudson appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. The Happy Days of Garry Marshall is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 documentary, music, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Craig Brewer, Max Minghella, Rian Johnson and others, Kate Hudson 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 Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020) as Self · Song Sung Blue (2025) as Claire Sardina · Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) as Birdie Jay
Career snapshot
Ranked #631 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
1992–2026
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Most frequent director
Garry Marshall
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Garry Marshall
Most common genre
Comedy
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.4
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
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
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. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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 | — | 5.44 films | 6.36 films | 5.93 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.43 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | 5.72 films | 5.82 films |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 5.87 films | 6.46 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | — | 5.72 films | 7.01 film |
| Romance | — | 5.88 films | 6.23 films | 7.41 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1992Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Choir Singer (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
8.0 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
2026Frampton
The current state of the argument.
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.
28 of 28 films
as Claire Sardina
Directed by Craig Brewer
as Andie Anderson
Directed by Donald Petrie
as Birdie Jay
Directed by Rian Johnson
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
Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Kate Hudson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Claire Sardina
Song Sung Blue (2025)
Performance score7.7
Song Sung Blue asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire Sardina is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Andie Anderson
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Performance score7.5
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Andie Anderson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Birdie Jay
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Performance score7.1
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Birdie Jay 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 Self
Start here. The Happy Days of Garry Marshall is the clearest statement of what Kate Hudson does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kate 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.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
A deliberate change of key after The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
A deliberate change of key after How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Deepwater Horizon — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Song Sung Blue (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Garry Marshall
Director
2 films together
Notably Raising Helen
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Davis Guggenheim
Director
1 film together
Notably Gossip
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. T & the Women
James Ivory
Director
1 film together
Notably Le Divorce
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably You, Me and Dupree
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably Fool's Gold
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine
Nicole Kassell
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Bit of Heaven
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Clear History
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Wish I Was Here
Henrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together
Notably Good People
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Deepwater Horizon
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Kung Fu Panda 3
Sia
Director
1 film together
Notably Music
Ana Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together
Notably Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Max Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Shell
Craig Brewer
Director
1 film together
Notably Song Sung Blue
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Garry Marshall
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Raising HelenCraig Brewer
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Song Sung BlueRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Alone 2: Lost in New YorkJennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kung Fu Panda 3Peter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deepwater HorizonDonald Petrie
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose a Guy in 10 DaysZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wish I Was HereAna Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mona Lisa and the Blood MoonNicole Kassell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Bit of HeavenGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clear HistoryAndy Tennant
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fool's GoldDavis Guggenheim
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GossipAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You, Me and DupreeHenrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good PeopleRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NineSia
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MusicMax Minghella
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShellJames Ivory
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Le DivorceRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. T & the WomenSix 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
Song Sung Blue
as Claire Sardina
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Song Sung Blue
as Claire Sardina
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 Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Choir Singer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
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. Kate Hudson 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
34 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
16 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
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Birdie Jay
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Song Sung Blue
as Claire Sardina
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
as Bonnie Belle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kung Fu Panda 3
as Mei Mei (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kung Fu Panda 3
as Mei Mei (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kung Fu Panda 3
as Mei Mei (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
as Choir Singer (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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