Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11349
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Marguerite Moreau represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Marguerite is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Marguerite Moreau appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marguerite. Paddleton is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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, action, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Wain, Kat Coiro, Raja Gosnell and others, Marguerite Moreau 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.
Paddleton (2019) as Kiersten · Runaway Jury (2003) as Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant) · Wag the Dog (1997) as Teenage Girl in Audience
Career snapshot
Ranked #11349 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Paddleton
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Paddleton
Most frequent director
David Wain
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Wain
Most common genre
Comedy
6 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
6.4
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
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Mighty Joe Young, Wag the Dog — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
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. Mighty Joe Young, Wag the Dog.
Most productive era
2000s
3 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 7.01 film | 5.83 films | — |
| Action | 6.31 film | — | — | 4.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film | 5.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 5.82 films | 6.22 films | 5.21 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.41 film | 5.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Wag the Dog
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Teenage Girl in Audience.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2003Runaway Jury
7.0 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
2026Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
The current state of the argument, as Marguerite Moreau.
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 Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
Directed by Gary Fleder
as Teenage Girl in Audience
Directed by Barry Levinson
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
Kiersten
Paddleton (2019)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kiersten gives Marguerite Moreau a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Performance score6.9
Runaway Jury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Teenage Girl in Audience
Wag the Dog (1997)
Performance score6.8
Wag the Dog asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Teenage Girl in Audience is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marguerite Moreau
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026)
Performance score6.5
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marguerite Moreau 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 Kiersten
Start here. Paddleton is the clearest statement of what Marguerite Moreau does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marguerite 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.
Wag the Dog (1997)
Keeps the comedy register of Paddleton but asks for a colder reading of it.
Runaway Jury (2003)
Keeps the drama register of Wag the Dog but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Protector (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Runaway Jury — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Protector — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Wain
Director
2 films together
Notably Wet Hot American Summer
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wag the Dog
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Mighty Joe Young
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Runaway Jury
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably L!fe Happens
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Wain
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Wet Hot American SummerGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Runaway JuryBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wag the DogRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mighty Joe YoungKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L!fe HappensRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beverly Hills ChihuahuaSix 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
Runaway Jury
as Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Blair
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Runaway Jury
as Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wag the Dog
as Teenage Girl in Audience
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Paddleton
as Kiersten
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. Marguerite Moreau 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
29 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
6 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
Paddleton
as Kiersten
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Runaway Jury
as Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Blair
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Into the Ashes
as Tara Brenner
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mighty Joe Young
as Cabriolet Girl
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mighty Joe Young
as Cabriolet Girl
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Blair
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Runaway Jury
as Amanda Monroe (Fitch's Assistant)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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