Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#506
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Marion Cotillard represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Marion is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Marion Cotillard appears in 46 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marion. Inception is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 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, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicole Garcia, Ellen Kuras, Mona Achache and others, Marion Cotillard 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.
Inception (2010) as Mal Cobb · Inception (2010) as Mal Cobb · The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Miranda
Career snapshot
Ranked #506 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
46
1996–2027
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Inception
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.8
Inception
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
30 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Taxi, La Belle Verte — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
4 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Rock'n Roll, Ismael's Ghosts, Allied.
Most productive era
2010s
20 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 | — | 7.07 films | 6.613 films | 4.310 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.02 films | 7.75 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.17 films | 0.02 films |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | 6.55 films | 6.65 films | 2.84 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 9.31 film | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.33 films | 7.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.74 films | 6.66 films | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996La Belle Verte
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Macha.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2010Inception
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.3 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
20277:40 ce matin-là
The current state of the argument, as Alice.
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.
46 of 46 films
as Mal Cobb
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Mal Cobb
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Miranda
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Edith Piaf
Directed by Olivier Dahan
as Stéphanie
Directed by Jacques Audiard
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 24 of 48 titles · 49 total credits · active 1996–2027
7:40 ce matin-là
2027 · Alice
Karma
2026 · Jeanne
Roma elastica
2026 · Eddie
The Ice Tower
2025 · Cristina / The Snow Queen
Lee
2024 · Solange D'Ayen
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
2023 · Cléopâtre / Bibine
Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
2023 · Self
Vestige
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Little Girl Blue
2023 · Carole Achache
The Inventor
2023 · Louise de Savoy (voice)
Beau geste
2023 · TV · Self
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023 · TV · Self - Guest
Brother and Sister
2022 · Alice Vuillard
Charlotte
2022 · Charlotte Salomon (voice) · Executive Producer
Annette
2021 · Ann Desfranoux
Dolittle
2020 · Tutu (voice)
The Morning Show
2019 · TV · Celine Dumont
Rock'n Roll
2017 · Marion Cotillard
Ismael's Ghosts
2017 · Carlotta Bloom
Allied
2016 · Marianne Beauséjour
Assassin's Creed
2016 · Dr. Sophia Rikkin
It's Only the End of the World
2016 · Catherine
From the Land of the Moon
2016 · Gabrielle
The Little Prince
2015 · The Rose (voice)
The defining work
#1
Mal Cobb
Inception (2010)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mal Cobb gives Marion Cotillard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mal Cobb
Inception (2010)
Performance score8.4
Inception asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mal Cobb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miranda
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score8.0
The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miranda is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Edith Piaf
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Performance score8.0
La Vie en Rose asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Edith Piaf 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 Mal Cobb
Start here. Inception is the clearest statement of what Marion Cotillard does — accessible, 148 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marion 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.
La Vie en Rose (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Inception — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Inception (2010)
A deliberate change of key after La Vie en Rose — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Same director as Inception, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Rust and Bone (2012)
Keeps the drama register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together
Notably Inception
Justin Kurzel
Director
2 films together
Notably Macbeth
Nicole Garcia
Director
2 films together
Notably From the Land of the Moon
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Fish
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably A Very Long Engagement
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably A Good Year
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably La Vie en Rose
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Public Enemies
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Midnight in Paris
Jacques Audiard
Director
1 film together
Notably Rust and Bone
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Franck Ekinci
Director
1 film together
Notably April and the Extraordinary World
Mark Osborne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Prince
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Only the End of the World
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Allied
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
Jim Capobianco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Inventor
Mona Achache
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Girl Blue
Ellen Kuras
Director
1 film together
Notably Lee
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Ken Watanabe
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Hardy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Elliot Page
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Dileep Rao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Berenger
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Lukas Haas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Talulah Riley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
3 films together · 8.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InceptionJustin Kurzel
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MacbethNicole Garcia
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
From the Land of the MoonTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big FishMark Osborne
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little PrinceWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Midnight in ParisOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La Vie en RoseJean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Very Long EngagementXavier Dolan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's Only the End of the WorldJacques Audiard
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rust and BoneFranck Ekinci
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
April and the Extraordinary WorldEllen Kuras
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeeRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlliedMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Public EnemiesRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Good YearStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleMona Achache
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Girl BlueJim Capobianco
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 InventorAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NineSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2011
Inception
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Inception
as Mal Cobb
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Big Fish
as Josephine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inception
as Mal Cobb
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as Canadian News Anchor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inception
as Mal Cobb
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. Marion Cotillard has known it for a long time.”
“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #98 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.3 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Charisma, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2010–2010 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Mal Cobb — Inception | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Inception | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Thriller Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Michael Caine · Leonardo DiCaprio · Cillian Murphy
Matt Damon 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
31 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
30 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
Inception
as Mal Cobb
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Inception
as Mal Cobb
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Inventor
as Louise de Savoy (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inception
as Mal Cobb
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Inception
as Mal Cobb
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Inception
as Mal Cobb
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Inventor
as Louise de Savoy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inception
as Mal Cobb
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 8 Nutevio collections
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