Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3725
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maria Dizzia 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.
Maria Dizzia appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maria. Captain Phillips 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, mystery, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with M. Night Shyamalan, Megan Park, Tobias Lindholm and others, Maria Dizzia 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.
Captain Phillips (2013) as Allison McColl (uncredited) · Plainclothes (2025) as Marie · The Good Nurse (2022) as Lori Lucas
Career snapshot
Ranked #3725 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2008–2027
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Captain Phillips
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Captain Phillips
Most frequent director
M. Night Shyamalan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With M. Night Shyamalan
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Late Night, Above the Shadows, Piercing — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Rachel Getting Married.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.410 films | 4.46 films |
| Action | — | 7.51 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.74 films | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.44 films | 3.06 films |
| Crime | — | 6.52 films | 7.12 films |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 6.71 film | 3.62 films |
| Horror | — | 5.72 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Wedding Guest.
Highest rated performance
2013Captain Phillips
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Plainclothes
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Remain
The current state of the argument.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Marie
Directed by Unknown
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Kathy
Directed by Megan Park
as Lori Lucas
Directed by Tobias Lindholm
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
Marie
Plainclothes (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marie gives Maria Dizzia a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Allison McColl (uncredited)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Performance score7.3
Captain Phillips asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Allison McColl (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kathy
My Old Ass (2024)
Performance score7.0
My Old Ass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kathy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Victoria Jederman
Above the Shadows (2019)
Performance score6.9
Above the Shadows asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victoria Jederman 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 Marie
Start here. Plainclothes is the clearest statement of what Maria Dizzia does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maria 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.
Captain Phillips (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Plainclothes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Above the Shadows (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Captain Phillips — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Good Nurse (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Above the Shadows — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Old Ass (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Good Nurse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jonathan Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Rachel Getting Married
Don Roos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Woman
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together
Notably Margin Call
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Phillips
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably While We're Young
Rupert Goold
Director
1 film together
Notably True Story
Gaby Dellal
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 Generations
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Going in Style
Brady Corbet
Director
1 film together
Notably Vox Lux
Larry Fessenden
Director
1 film together
Notably Depraved
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably Late Night
Owen Kline
Director
1 film together
Notably Funny Pages
Tobias Lindholm
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good Nurse
Megan Park
Director
1 film together
Notably My Old Ass
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Remain
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain PhillipsTobias Lindholm
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Good NurseJ.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Margin CallMegan Park
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Old AssZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going in StyleNisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Late NightGaby Dellal
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 GenerationsRupert Goold
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True StoryJonathan Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rachel Getting MarriedDon Roos
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 Other WomanNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
While We're YoungBrady Corbet
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vox LuxOwen Kline
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Funny PagesLarry Fessenden
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DepravedM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RemainSix 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
Captain Phillips
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Above the Shadows
as Victoria Jederman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Captain Phillips
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rachel Getting Married
as Wedding Guest
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Plainclothes
as Marie
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. Maria Dizzia 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
17 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
The Good Nurse
as Lori Lucas
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Captain Phillips
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Above the Shadows
as Victoria Jederman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Good Nurse
as Lori Lucas
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Captain Phillips
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain Phillips
as Allison McColl (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Plainclothes
as Marie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
3 Generations
as Sinda
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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