Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4780
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kristin Davis represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Kristin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kristin Davis appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kristin. And Just Like That... The Documentary is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yulin Kuang, Monika Mitchell, Brad Peyton and others, Kristin Davis 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.
And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022) as Self · Sex and the City (2008) as Charlotte York · Holiday in the Wild (2019) as Kate Conrad
Career snapshot
Ranked #4780 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1995–2027
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Most frequent director
Michael Patrick King
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Michael Patrick King
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
2010s
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Knight Before Christmas, Holiday in the Wild, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Nine Months.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | — | 6.61 film | 6.01 film | 5.01 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.11 film | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 5.62 films |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 5.73 films | 6.33 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 5.71 film | 6.12 films | 6.33 films | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Nine Months
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tennis Attendant.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2022And Just Like That... The Documentary
6.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027Beach Read
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.
12 of 12 films
as Charlotte York
Directed by Michael Patrick King
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
Kate Conrad
Holiday in the Wild (2019)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kate Conrad gives Kristin Davis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022)
Performance score7.1
And Just Like That... The Documentary 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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Charlotte York
Sex and the City (2008)
Performance score7.0
Sex and the City asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Charlotte York is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amelia Decker
Cash Out (2024)
Performance score6.7
Cash Out asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amelia Decker 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 Kate Conrad
Start here. Holiday in the Wild is the clearest statement of what Kristin Davis does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kristin 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.
Sex and the City (2008)
Keeps the romance register of Holiday in the Wild but asks for a colder reading of it.
And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Sex and the City — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Cash Out (2024)
Same director as And Just Like That... The Documentary, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Beach Read (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Cash Out — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Patrick King
Director
2 films together
Notably Sex and the City
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine Months
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Shaggy Dog
Peter Billingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Couples Retreat
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Monika Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Knight Before Christmas
Yulin Kuang
Director
1 film together
Notably Beach Read
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Patrick King
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sex and the CityMonika Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Knight Before ChristmasBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey 2: The Mysterious IslandChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nine MonthsPeter Billingsley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Couples RetreatBrian Robbins
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 Shaggy DogYulin Kuang
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beach ReadSix 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
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Nine Months
as Tennis Attendant
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Holiday in the Wild
as Kate Conrad
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. Kristin Davis 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
32 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
8 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
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Cash Out
as Amelia Decker
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cash Out
as Amelia Decker
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
as Elizabeth Parsons
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
as Elizabeth Parsons
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sex and the City 2
as Charlotte York
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sex and the City
as Charlotte York
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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