Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#192419
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
McKenzie Westmore 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.
McKenzie Westmore appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without McKenzie. Ice Storm is the clearest case: a film rated 5.6 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 action, science fiction, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jared Cohn, Taylor Sheridan, McKenzie Westmore 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.
Ice Storm (2023) as Molly · 20.0 Megaquake (2023) as Molly Martin · Vile (2011) as Diane
Career snapshot
Ranked #192419 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2011–2023
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
5.6
Ice Storm
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
5.6
Ice Storm
Most frequent director
Jared Cohn
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jared Cohn
Most common genre
Science Fiction
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.1
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
5.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Vile — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Vile.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.21 film |
| Action | — | 5.42 films |
| Thriller | 5.11 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 4.11 film |
| Horror | 5.11 film | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2011Vile
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Diane. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2023Ice Storm
5.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Molly.
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.
4 of 4 films
as Molly Martin
Directed by Jared Cohn
as Molly
Directed by Jared Cohn
as Diane
Directed by Taylor Sheridan
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
Molly Martin
20.0 Megaquake (2023)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Molly Martin gives McKenzie Westmore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Molly
Ice Storm (2023)
Performance score6.5
Ice Storm asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Molly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Unbelievable!!!!! (2020)
Performance score6.5
Unbelievable!!!!! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Diane
Vile (2011)
Performance score6.5
Vile asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diane 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 Molly Martin
Start here. 20.0 Megaquake is the clearest statement of what McKenzie Westmore does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 5.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet McKenzie 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.
Vile (2011)
A deliberate change of key after 20.0 Megaquake — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Unbelievable!!!!! (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Vile — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ice Storm (2023)
Keeps the science fiction register of Unbelievable!!!!! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jared Cohn
Director
2 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ice StormTaylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VileSix 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
Ice Storm
as Molly
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
20.0 Megaquake
as Molly Martin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ice Storm
as Molly
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Unbelievable!!!!!
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
20.0 Megaquake
as Molly Martin
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. McKenzie Westmore 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
Ice Storm
as Molly
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ice Storm
as Molly
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
20.0 Megaquake
as Molly Martin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vile
as Diane
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ice Storm
as Molly
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ice Storm
as Molly
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
20.0 Megaquake
as Molly Martin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Unbelievable!!!!!
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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