Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5357
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lindsay Sloane 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.
Lindsay Sloane appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lindsay. Horrible Bosses is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 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, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Seth Gordon, Adam McKay, Jim Field Smith and others, Lindsay Sloane 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.
Horrible Bosses (2011) as Stacey · She's Out of My League (2010) as Marnie · The Other Guys (2010) as Francine
Career snapshot
Ranked #5357 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2000–2020
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Horrible Bosses
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Horrible Bosses
Most frequent director
Andrew Fleming
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andrew Fleming
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Horrible Bosses 2, Horrible Bosses, The Other Guys — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
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. The Accidental Husband, Over Her Dead Body, Nancy Drew.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Action | 5.61 film | 6.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.85 films | 6.44 films | — |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 6.61 film | — |
| Romance | 5.61 film | 6.51 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Bring It On
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Big Red.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2011Horrible Bosses
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Billie.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Stacey
Directed by Seth Gordon
as Francine
Directed by Adam McKay
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
Marnie
She's Out of My League (2010)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marnie gives Lindsay Sloane a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Stacey
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Performance score6.6
Horrible Bosses asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stacey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Billie
Endings, Beginnings (2020)
Performance score6.5
Endings, Beginnings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Stacy Arbus
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Performance score6.5
Horrible Bosses 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stacy Arbus 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 Marnie
Start here. She's Out of My League is the clearest statement of what Lindsay Sloane does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lindsay 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 Other Guys (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of She's Out of My League but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Keeps the comedy register of The Other Guys but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Horrible Bosses but asks for a colder reading of it.
Endings, Beginnings (2020)
Same director as Horrible Bosses 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrew Fleming
Director
2 films together
Notably Nancy Drew
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Bring It On
Jeff Lowell
Director
1 film together
Notably Over Her Dead Body
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Accidental Husband
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Out of My League
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Guys
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Bosses
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrew Fleming
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Nancy DrewSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible BossesJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Out of My LeagueAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Other GuysPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bring It OnGriffin Dunne
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Accidental HusbandJeff Lowell
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over Her Dead BodySix 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
Horrible Bosses
as Stacey
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Endings, Beginnings
as Billie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Horrible Bosses
as Stacey
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Nancy Drew
as Boutique Clerk
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
She's Out of My League
as Marnie
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. Lindsay Sloane 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
9 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
Nancy Drew
as Boutique Clerk
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nancy Drew
as Boutique Clerk
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Endings, Beginnings
as Billie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nancy Drew
as Boutique Clerk
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Other Guys
as Francine
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Other Guys
as Francine
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Endings, Beginnings
as Billie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Endings, Beginnings
as Billie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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