Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26426
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Laure Calamy 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.
Laure Calamy appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Laure. Full Time is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 comedy, drama, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicole Garcia, Émilie Noblet, Franck Dubosc and others, Laure Calamy 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.
Full Time (2022) as Julie Roy · Only the Animals (2019) as Alice Farange, Michel's wife · How to Make a Killing (2025) as Cathy
Career snapshot
Ranked #26426 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2019–2027
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Full Time
Average Nutevio score
4.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Full Time
Most frequent director
Nicole Garcia
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nicole Garcia
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.1
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
5.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Fool, Sibyl, Only the Animals — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. The Fool, Sibyl, Only the Animals.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 6.03 films | 3.95 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 5.11 film | 4.16 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019The Fool
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Clothilde Pontagnac.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Full Time
7.0 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
20277:40 ce matin-là
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.
14 of 14 films
as Nathalie Cordier
Directed by Sébastien Marnier
as Antoinette Lapouge
Directed by Unknown
as Alice Farange, Michel's wife
Directed by Unknown
as Cathy
Directed by Franck Dubosc
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
Julie Roy
Full Time (2022)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Julie Roy gives Laure Calamy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nathalie Cordier
The Origin of Evil (2022)
Performance score7.1
The Origin of Evil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nathalie Cordier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Antoinette Lapouge
My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)
Performance score7.1
My Donkey, My Lover & I asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antoinette Lapouge is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alice Farange, Michel's wife
Only the Animals (2019)
Performance score7.1
Only the Animals asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice Farange, Michel's wife 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 Julie Roy
Start here. Full Time is the clearest statement of what Laure Calamy does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Laure 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.
Only the Animals (2019)
Same director as Full Time, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)
Same director as Only the Animals, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Origin of Evil (2022)
A deliberate change of key after My Donkey, My Lover & I — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
How to Make a Killing (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of The Origin of Evil but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jalil Lespert
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fool
Mohamed Hamidi
Director
1 film together
Notably Queens of The Field
Sébastien Marnier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Origin of Evil
Franck Dubosc
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Make a Killing
Émilie Noblet
Director
1 film together
Notably Call My Agent! The Movie
Nicole Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably 7:40 ce matin-là
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Franck Dubosc
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Make a KillingSébastien Marnier
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 Origin of EvilMohamed Hamidi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queens of The FieldJalil Lespert
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FoolNicole Garcia
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7:40 ce matin-làÉmilie Noblet
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Call My Agent! The MovieSix 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
Only the Animals
as Alice Farange, Michel's wife
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Antoinette Lapouge
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Full Time
as Julie Roy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Claire Darling
as Martine Leroy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Full Time
as Julie Roy
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. Laure Calamy 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
8 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
Full Time
as Julie Roy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
How to Make a Killing
as Cathy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Antoinette Lapouge
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Only the Animals
as Alice Farange, Michel's wife
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Full Time
as Julie Roy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
My Donkey, My Lover & I
as Antoinette Lapouge
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Only the Animals
as Alice Farange, Michel's wife
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
How to Make a Killing
as Cathy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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