Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8990
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lauren Weedman 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.
Lauren Weedman appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lauren. Date Night is the clearest case: a film rated 6.1 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 Lara Everly, Sam Levinson, Craig Johnson and others, Lauren Weedman 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.
Date Night (2010) as Wendy · Wilson (2017) as Cat Lady · The Gambler (2014) as Banker
Career snapshot
Ranked #8990 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.1
Date Night
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.1
Date Night
Most frequent director
Lara Everly
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lara Everly
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.2
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
6.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Little Hours, Wilson, The Gambler — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.0
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. Imagine That, The Ex.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | — | 6.03 films | 2.92 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.72 films | 6.04 films | 2.52 films |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | 5.31 film | 5.91 film | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2006The Ex
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alice. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2010Date Night
6.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage)(uncredited).
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.
11 of 11 films
as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Directed by Sam Levinson
as Liz Bence
Directed by Unknown
as Francesca
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Annie
Selah (2026)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Annie gives Lauren Weedman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Euphoria: A Look Back (2026)
Performance score6.5
Euphoria: A Look Back asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage)(uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Liz Bence
Spin Me Round (2022)
Performance score6.5
Spin Me Round asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Liz Bence is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cheryl
Horse Girl (2020)
Performance score6.5
Horse Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cheryl 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 Annie
Start here. Selah is the clearest statement of what Lauren Weedman does — accessible, 21 minutes, and rated 0.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lauren 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.
The Little Hours (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Selah but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horse Girl (2020)
Same director as The Little Hours, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Spin Me Round (2022)
Same director as Horse Girl, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Euphoria: A Look Back (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Spin Me Round — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ex
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Imagine That
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Date Night
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Five-Year Engagement
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gambler
Craig Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wilson
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria: A Look Back
Lara Everly
Director
1 film together
Notably Selah
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date NightCraig Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WilsonRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GamblerKarey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Imagine ThatNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Five-Year EngagementJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ExSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Euphoria: A Look BackLara Everly
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SelahSix 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
The Five-Year Engagement
as Chef Sally
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Five-Year Engagement
as Chef Sally
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Date Night
as Wendy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Euphoria: A Look Back
as Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Selah
as Annie
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. Lauren Weedman 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
20 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
Imagine That
as Rose
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Gambler
as Banker
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Five-Year Engagement
as Chef Sally
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Gambler
as Banker
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Date Night
as Wendy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Date Night
as Wendy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Five-Year Engagement
as Chef Sally
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Five-Year Engagement
as Chef Sally
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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