Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5655
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Marceline Hugot represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 38 years in, and Marceline is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Marceline Hugot appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marceline. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 drama, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Maria Schrader, David Wnendt, Bridget Savage Cole and others, Marceline Hugot 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.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) as Katina · She Said (2022) as Linda Fairstein · Labor Day (2013) as Mrs. Farnsworth
Career snapshot
Ranked #5655 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
1988–2026
Career length
38 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Most frequent director
Jason Reitman
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jason Reitman
Most common genre
Drama
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
7.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Working Girl.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 7.51 film | 6.66 films | 6.18 films | 4.57 films |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 6.03 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 7.51 film | 6.55 films | 6.07 films | 5.82 films |
| Crime | — | — | — | 5.51 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | 6.73 films | 6.22 films | 5.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1988Working Girl
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bitsy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
7.5 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
2026Take Me Home
The current state of the argument, as Joan.
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.
27 of 27 films
as Linda Fairstein
Directed by Maria Schrader
as Mrs. Farnsworth
Directed by Jason Reitman
as Nurse
Directed by Boaz Yakin
as Coffee Shop Customer
Directed by Jason Reitman
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
Katina
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Katina gives Marceline Hugot a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Linda Fairstein
She Said (2022)
Performance score7.1
She Said asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Linda Fairstein is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Farnsworth
Labor Day (2013)
Performance score7.0
Labor Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Farnsworth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nurse
Uptown Girls (2003)
Performance score6.9
Uptown Girls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nurse 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 Katina
Start here. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is the clearest statement of what Marceline Hugot does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marceline 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.
Uptown Girls (2003)
Keeps the comedy register of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Labor Day (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Uptown Girls but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tully (2018)
Same director as Labor Day, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
She Said (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Tully but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jason Reitman
Director
2 films together
Notably Labor Day
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Working Girl
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Uptown Girls
Michel Gondry
Director
1 film together
Notably Be Kind Rewind
Sanaa Hamri
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Shopaholic
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Julie & Julia
Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably I Don't Know How She Does It
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Idiot Brother
Larry Charles
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dictator
Tze Chun
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Comes the Night
Don Scardino
Director
1 film together
Notably The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Bridget Savage Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably Blow the Man Down
David Wnendt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sunlit Night
Maria Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably She Said
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jason Reitman
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Labor DayMaria Schrader
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She SaidBoaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uptown GirlsNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Julie & JuliaMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Working GirlP.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a ShopaholicSanaa 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 2Michel Gondry
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Be Kind RewindBridget Savage Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blow the Man DownLarry Charles
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DictatorJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Idiot BrotherDon Scardino
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Incredible Burt WonderstoneTze Chun
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold Comes the NightDavid Wnendt
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sunlit NightDouglas McGrath
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Don't Know How She Does ItSix 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
She Said
as Linda Fairstein
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
She Said
as Linda Fairstein
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Katina
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Saleswoman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Katina
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. Marceline Hugot 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
38 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
23 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
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Katina
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Call to Spy
as Sister Francis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
She Said
as Linda Fairstein
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blow the Man Down
as Doreen Burke
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
as Katina
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
as Nurse
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Working Girl
as Bitsy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
as Piñata Woman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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