Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3058
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lucy Hale 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.
Lucy Hale appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lucy. The Hating Game is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 comedy, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Richard Alan Reid, Barry Alexander Brown, Jeff Wadlow and others, Lucy Hale 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.
The Hating Game (2021) as Lucy Hutton · Secret of the Wings (2012) as Periwinkle (voice) · Puppy Love (2023) as Nicole Matthews
Career snapshot
Ranked #3058 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Hating Game
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Hating Game
Most frequent director
Jeff Wadlow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jeff Wadlow
Most common genre
Comedy
10 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
2000s
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.3
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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 6.31 film | — | 6.36 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film | 6.03 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 5.52 films | 6.37 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.02 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.65 films |
| Horror | — | 6.22 films | 5.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Effie Kaligaris.
Highest rated performance
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021The Hating Game
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025F Marry Kill
The current state of the argument, as Eva Vaugh.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Lucy Hutton
Directed by Unknown
as Nicole Matthews
Directed by Richard Alan Reid
as Periwinkle (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Lucy Hutton
The Hating Game (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lucy Hutton gives Lucy Hale a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nicole Matthews
Puppy Love (2023)
Performance score7.6
Puppy Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nicole Matthews is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Periwinkle (voice)
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Performance score7.6
Secret of the Wings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Periwinkle (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amy
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)
Performance score7.0
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amy 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 Lucy Hutton
Start here. The Hating Game is the clearest statement of what Lucy Hale does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lucy 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.
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Same director as The Hating Game, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Trouble (2019)
Same director as Secret of the Wings, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)
Same director as Trouble, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Puppy Love (2023)
Keeps the romance register of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together
Notably Truth or Dare
Sanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Wes Craven
Director
1 film together
Notably Scream 4
Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unicorn
Barry Alexander Brown
Director
1 film together
Notably Son of the South
Richard Alan Reid
Director
1 film together
Notably Puppy Love
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wadlow
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
Truth or DareRichard Alan Reid
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Puppy LoveBarry Alexander Brown
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Son of the SouthWes Craven
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scream 4Sanaa Hamri
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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2Robert Schwartzman
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The UnicornSix 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 Hating Game
as Lucy Hutton
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Secret of the Wings
as Periwinkle (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Secret of the Wings
as Periwinkle (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Scream 4
as Sherrie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Hating Game
as Lucy Hutton
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. Lucy Hale 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
10 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
Secret of the Wings
as Periwinkle (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Scream 4
as Sherrie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trouble
as Zoe Bell (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fantasy Island
as Melanie Cole
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Secret of the Wings
as Periwinkle (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Effie Kaligaris
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trouble
as Zoe Bell (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Nice Girl Like You
as Lucy Neal
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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