Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12529
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Maddie Corman works on quiet performance 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.
Maddie Corman appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maddie. Begin Again is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for family, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marielle Heller, Woody Allen, Sian Heder and others, Maddie Corman 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.
Begin Again (2014) as Phillis · Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) as 1st Teacher / White Rabbit · What Maisie Knew (2013) as Ms. Fairchild-Tetenbaum
Career snapshot
Ranked #12529 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1996–2019
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Begin Again
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Begin Again
Most frequent director
Marielle Heller
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marielle Heller
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.5
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Swingers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Swingers.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 6.73 films | 6.78 films |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.12 films | 6.65 films |
| Romance | — | 6.33 films | 6.54 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Swingers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Peek-a-boo Girl.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.2 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
2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The current state of the argument, as Betty Aberlin.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Phillis
Directed by John Carney
as 1st Teacher / White Rabbit
Directed by Daniel Barnz
as Ms. Fairchild-Tetenbaum
Directed by Unknown
as Betty Aberlin
Directed by Marielle Heller
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
Phillis
Begin Again (2014)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Phillis gives Maddie Corman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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1st Teacher / White Rabbit
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Performance score7.1
Phoebe in Wonderland asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 1st Teacher / White Rabbit is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ms. Fairchild-Tetenbaum
What Maisie Knew (2013)
Performance score7.0
What Maisie Knew asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ms. Fairchild-Tetenbaum is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Betty Aberlin
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Performance score6.9
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Betty Aberlin 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 Phillis
Start here. Begin Again is the clearest statement of what Maddie Corman does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maddie 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.
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Keeps the drama register of Begin Again but asks for a colder reading of it.
What Maisie Knew (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Phoebe in Wonderland but asks for a colder reading of it.
Private Life (2018)
Same director as What Maisie Knew, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Private Life but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Swingers
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together
Notably Phoebe in Wonderland
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably What Happens in Vegas
Max Mayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Adam
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Morning Glory
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
John Carney
Director
1 film together
Notably Begin Again
Sian Heder
Director
1 film together
Notably Tallulah
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Wheel
Marielle Heller
Director
1 film together
Notably A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Carney
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Begin AgainDaniel Barnz
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phoebe in WonderlandMarielle Heller
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodMax Mayer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AdamDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwingersSian Heder
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TallulahWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WheelRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Morning GloryTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Happens in VegasBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peace, Love & MisunderstandingSix 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
Private Life
as Liz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Begin Again
as Phillis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Phoebe in Wonderland
as 1st Teacher / White Rabbit
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Morning Glory
as Daybreak Producer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Begin Again
as Phillis
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. Maddie Corman 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
23 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 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
Begin Again
as Phillis
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Begin Again
as Phillis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Betty Aberlin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Phoebe in Wonderland
as 1st Teacher / White Rabbit
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Begin Again
as Phillis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
What Maisie Knew
as Ms. Fairchild-Tetenbaum
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Begin Again
as Phillis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wonder Wheel
as Psychiatrist
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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