Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10058
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lara Grice 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.
Lara Grice appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lara. Logan 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 action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Michael Tiddes, Peter Woodward and others, Lara Grice 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.
Logan (2017) as Car Dealer · All My Life (2020) as Margaret (Bridal Shop) · Big George Foreman (2023) as Roberta
Career snapshot
Ranked #10058 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2003–2025
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Logan
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Logan
Most frequent director
Simon West
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Simon West
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.3
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
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. 12 Rounds, The Reaping, Déjà Vu — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. 12 Rounds, The Reaping, Déjà Vu.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 7.01 film | 6.78 films | 7.43 films |
| Action | 6.42 films | 6.84 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 5.54 films | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.34 films | 6.35 films |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 6.54 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | — | 7.81 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 4.02 films | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Runaway Jury
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Blonde Decoy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Logan
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
2025The Pickup
The current state of the argument, as Waitress.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Car Dealer
Directed by James Mangold
as Margaret (Bridal Shop)
Directed by Unknown
as Deutsche Auditorium Host
Directed by Adam McKay
as Blonde Decoy
Directed by Gary Fleder
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
Car Dealer
Logan (2017)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Car Dealer gives Lara Grice a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Margaret (Bridal Shop)
All My Life (2020)
Performance score7.6
All My Life asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Margaret (Bridal Shop) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roberta
Big George Foreman (2023)
Performance score7.4
Big George Foreman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roberta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Deutsche Auditorium Host
The Big Short (2015)
Performance score7.2
The Big Short asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Deutsche Auditorium Host 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 Car Dealer
Start here. Logan is the clearest statement of what Lara Grice does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lara 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.
Runaway Jury (2003)
Keeps the drama register of Logan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Big Short (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Runaway Jury but asks for a colder reading of it.
All My Life (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Big Short but asks for a colder reading of it.
Big George Foreman (2023)
Keeps the drama register of All My Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Simon West
Director
2 films together
Notably The Mechanic
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Runaway Jury
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Déjà Vu
Stephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Reaping
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Short
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Moms
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Free State of Jones
Courtney Hunt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Truth
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Made
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Logan
Bart Layton
Director
1 film together
Notably American Animals
Rodman Flender
Director
1 film together
Notably Eat Brains Love
Gil Junger
Director
1 film together
Notably Think Like a Dog
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Big George Foreman
Peter Woodward
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex-Positive
Michael Tiddes
Director
1 film together
Notably Half Baked: Totally High
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably The Pickup
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Simon West
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
The MechanicJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LoganGeorge Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big George ForemanAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big ShortGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Runaway JuryDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American MadeTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Déjà VuGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Free State of JonesMichael Tiddes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Half Baked: Totally HighGil Junger
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Think Like a DogBart Layton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American AnimalsCourtney Hunt
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Whole TruthJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad MomsTim Story
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 PickupRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsStephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReapingPeter Woodward
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex-PositiveRodman Flender
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eat Brains LoveSix 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
Logan
as Car Dealer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
All My Life
as Margaret (Bridal Shop)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Logan
as Car Dealer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Big Short
as Deutsche Auditorium Host
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Logan
as Car Dealer
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. Lara Grice 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
22 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 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
Logan
as Car Dealer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Logan
as Car Dealer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
All My Life
as Margaret (Bridal Shop)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Body Cam
as Detective Susan Hayes
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Logan
as Car Dealer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Logan
as Car Dealer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Made
as Female Reporter (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Logan
as Car Dealer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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