Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#991
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kathryn Hahn 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.
Kathryn Hahn appears in 38 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kathryn. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 drama, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David O. Russell, Genndy Tartakovsky, Joaquim Dos Santos and others, Kathryn Hahn 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.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as Doc Ock (voice) · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Doc Ock (voice) · Captain Fantastic (2016) as Harper
Career snapshot
Ranked #991 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
38
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
Adam McKay
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Adam McKay
Most common genre
Comedy
31 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.7
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Step Brothers, Revolutionary Road — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Step Brothers, Revolutionary Road.
Most productive era
2010s
23 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | 6.311 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | — | 7.22 films | 8.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.57 films | 6.320 films | 6.94 films |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 6.94 films | 5.63 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Michelle Rubin.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8.7 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
2026Madden
The current state of the argument, as Virginia Madden.
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.
38 of 38 films
as Doc Ock (voice)
Directed by Peter Ramsey
as Doc Ock (voice)
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos
as Ericka (voice)
Directed by Derek Drymon
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
Doc Ock (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Doc Ock (voice) gives Kathryn Hahn a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Doc Ock (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Performance score8.2
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doc Ock (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jo Polniaczek
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)
Performance score7.8
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jo Polniaczek is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harper
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Performance score7.7
Captain Fantastic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harper 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 Doc Ock (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Kathryn Hahn does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kathryn 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.
Captain Fantastic (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Captain Fantastic but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Keeps the adventure register of Hotel Transylvania: Transformania but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Adam McKay
Director
3 films together
Notably Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Jason Bateman
Director
2 films together
Notably Bad Words
Jon Lucas
Director
2 films together
Notably Bad Moms
Joey Soloway
Director
2 films together
Notably Transparent: Musicale Finale
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
2 films together
Notably Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably A Lot Like Love
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Holiday
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolutionary Road
Neal Brennan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
James L. Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably How Do You Know
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Idiot Brother
Larry Charles
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dictator
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably Wanderlust
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is Where I Leave You
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Jarrad Paul
Director
1 film together
Notably The D Train
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Funny That Way
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably The Do-Over
Matt Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Fantastic
Max Winkler
Director
1 film together
Notably Flower
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Andy Fisher
Director
1 film together
Notably Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Derek Drymon
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Joaquim Dos Santos
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Madden
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Adam McKay
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron BurgundyGenndy Tartakovsky
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
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationJon Lucas
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bad MomsJoey Soloway
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Transparent: Musicale FinaleJason Bateman
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bad WordsPeter 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-VerseMatt Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain FantasticAndy Fisher
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Walter MittyNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HolidayDerek Drymon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel Transylvania: TransformaniaRian 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 MysterySam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Revolutionary RoadDonald 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 DaysNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Lot Like LoveShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is Where I Leave YouMax Winkler
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlowerBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandLarry Charles
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 DictatorJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Idiot BrotherPeter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Funny That WaySteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Do-OverDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WanderlustNeal Brennan
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardJames L. Brooks
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How Do You KnowJarrad Paul
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The D TrainDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaddenSix 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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Revolutionary Road
as Milly Campbell
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dictator
as Pregnant Woman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
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. Kathryn Hahn 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
23 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
31 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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Revolutionary Road
as Milly Campbell
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Claire Debella
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Odessa Mitty
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Doc Ock (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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