Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#859
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mia Wasikowska 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.
Mia Wasikowska appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mia. Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds 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 fantasy, adventure, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeffrey Walker, Adrian Chiarella, Antonio Campos and others, Mia Wasikowska 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.
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds (2023) as Narrator · The Devil All the Time (2020) as Helen Hatton · Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) as Ava
Career snapshot
Ranked #859 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
Most frequent director
Jeffrey Walker
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jeffrey Walker
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Blackbird, Judy & Punch, Piercing — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Amelia, Defiance, Rogue.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 6.32 films | 6.510 films | 6.54 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.61 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.46 films | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.03 films | 5.91 film |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | 7.03 films | 6.42 films |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 6.33 films | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Rogue
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sherry.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
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
2026Leviticus
The current state of the argument, as Arlene Reid.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Jane Eyre
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
as Edith Cushing
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Alice Kingsleigh
Directed by James Bobin
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Narrator
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds (2023)
Performance score9.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Narrator gives Mia Wasikowska a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (2011)
Performance score7.8
Jane Eyre asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jane Eyre is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Edith Cushing
Crimson Peak (2015)
Performance score7.4
Crimson Peak asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Edith Cushing is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abby
Blueback (2022)
Performance score7.3
Blueback asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abby 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 Narrator
Start here. Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds is the clearest statement of what Mia Wasikowska does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mia 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.
Jane Eyre (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Crimson Peak (2015)
Keeps the romance register of Jane Eyre but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Crimson Peak — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Blueback (2022)
Keeps the adventure register of Alice Through the Looking Glass but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Greg McLean
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Defiance
Mira Nair
Director
1 film together
Notably Amelia
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland
Lisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kids Are All Right
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably Jane Eyre
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Only Lovers Left Alive
Park Chan-wook
Director
1 film together
Notably Stoker
Richard Ayoade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Double
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Maps to the Stars
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Crimson Peak
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Nathan Zellner
Director
1 film together
Notably Damsel
Mirrah Foulkes
Director
1 film together
Notably Judy & Punch
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Blackbird
Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil All the Time
Adrian Chiarella
Director
1 film together
Notably Leviticus
Jeffrey Walker
Director
1 film together
Notably Fing!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil All the TimeJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only Lovers Left AliveCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jane EyreRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlackbirdEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DefianceGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crimson PeakAdrian Chiarella
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeviticusCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice Through the Looking GlassPark Chan-wook
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StokerLisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kids Are All RightTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in WonderlandRichard Ayoade
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DoubleGreg McLean
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RogueDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maps to the StarsMirrah Foulkes
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Judy & PunchMira Nair
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmeliaNathan Zellner
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DamselJeffrey Walker
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fing!Six 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
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Only Lovers Left Alive
as Ava
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Defiance
as Chaya Dziencielsky
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
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. Mia Wasikowska 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
16 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
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bergman Island
as Amy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Club Zero
as Miss Novak
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds
as Narrator
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rogue
as Sherry
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Judy & Punch
as Judy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Leviticus
as Arlene Reid
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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