Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5466
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mackenzie Davis 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.
Mackenzie Davis appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mackenzie. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 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 horror, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Watkins, Floria Sigismondi, Jon Stewart and others, Mackenzie Davis 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.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Mariette · The Martian (2015) as Mindy Park · Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Mariette
Career snapshot
Ranked #5466 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2013–2024
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Blade Runner 2049
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Blade Runner 2049
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Terminator: Dark Fate, Tully, Blade Runner 2049 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Terminator: Dark Fate, Tully, Blade Runner 2049.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 7.75 films | 5.92 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 6.33 films |
| Sci-Fi | 9.21 film | — |
| Romance | 6.42 films | 7.11 film |
| Horror | — | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013What If
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nicole.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 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
2024Swimming Home
The current state of the argument, as Isabel.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Mariette
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Mindy Park
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Mariette
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Louise Dalton
Directed by James Watkins
as Harper
Directed by Clea DuVall
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 15 of 15 titles · 15 total credits · active 2013–2026
Below
2026 · TV · Fonda Howander
Speak No Evil
2024 · Louise Dalton
Swimming Home
2024 · Isabel
Hot Ones Versus
2024 · TV · Self
Station Eleven
2021 · TV · Kirsten Raymonde
The Turning
2020 · Kate
Irresistible
2020 · Diana Hastings
Happiest Season
2020 · Harper
Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · Grace
Tully
2018 · Tully
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Mariette
The Martian
2015 · Mindy Park
That Awkward Moment
2014 · Chelsea
Halt and Catch Fire
2014 · TV · Cameron Howe
What If
2013 · Nicole
The defining work
#1
Mariette
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mariette gives Mackenzie Davis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mindy Park
The Martian (2015)
Performance score7.7
The Martian asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mindy Park is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mariette
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score7.6
Blade Runner 2049 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mariette is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Louise Dalton
Speak No Evil (2024)
Performance score7.5
Speak No Evil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Louise Dalton 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 Mariette
Start here. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest statement of what Mackenzie Davis does — accessible, 164 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mackenzie 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 Martian (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Blade Runner 2049 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Keeps the science fiction register of The Martian but asks for a colder reading of it.
Happiest Season (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Blade Runner 2049 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Speak No Evil (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Happiest Season — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably What If
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Martian
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Tully
Tim Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Terminator: Dark Fate
Clea DuVall
Director
1 film together
Notably Happiest Season
Jon Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably Irresistible
Floria Sigismondi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Turning
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Speak No Evil
Ryan Gosling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Harrison Ford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Ana de Armas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Robin Wright
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sylvia Hoeks
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Jared Leto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Carla Juri
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Hiam Abbass
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Lennie James
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sean Young
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blade Runner 2049Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MartianJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Speak No EvilClea DuVall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happiest SeasonJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TullyMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What IfTim Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Terminator: Dark FateTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentJon Stewart
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IrresistibleFloria Sigismondi
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TurningSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Mackenzie Davis
Where this journey starts
Director
Denis Villeneuve
2 collaborations, averaging 8.5
Film
Blade Runner 2049
Their highest-rated film together (2017)
Performer
Jared Leto
Shares the frame in Blade Runner 2049
Film
Fight Club
Where Jared goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Brad Pitt
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2018
Blade Runner 2049
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
What If
as Nicole
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
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. Mackenzie Davis has known it for a long time.”
“You've never seen a miracle.”
“Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #280 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Charisma | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2017–2017 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Mariette — Blade Runner 2049 | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Blade Runner 2049 | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Mystery Movies, Best Space Movies, Best Movies of the 2010s, Sci-Fi Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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
7 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
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
What If
as Nicole
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Terminator: Dark Fate
as Grace
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Blade Runner 2049
as Mariette
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 11 Nutevio collections
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