Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19051
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Myha'la 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.
Myha'la appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Myha'la. They Will Kill You 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, 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, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gus Van Sant, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Sam Esmail and others, Myha'la 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.
They Will Kill You (2026) as Maria Reaves · Dumb Money (2023) as Riri · Swiped (2025) as Tisha
Career snapshot
Ranked #19051 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2020–2026
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
They Will Kill You
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
They Will Kill You
Most frequent director
Gus Van Sant
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gus Van Sant
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
2020s
5.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. They Will Kill You, Dead Man's Wire, Swiped — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.7
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. They Will Kill You, Dead Man's Wire, Swiped.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 5.46 films |
| Action | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 6.15 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film |
| Romance | 3.12 films |
| Horror | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2020Premature
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dymond.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2026Dead Man's Wire
The current state of the argument, as Linda Page.
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 Maria Reaves
Directed by Unknown
as Tisha
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
as Riri
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Linda Page
Directed by Gus Van Sant
as Jordan
Directed by Halina Reijn
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
Maria Reaves
They Will Kill You (2026)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maria Reaves gives Myha'la a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tisha
Swiped (2025)
Performance score7.0
Swiped asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tisha is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Riri
Dumb Money (2023)
Performance score6.9
Dumb Money asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Riri is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Linda Page
Dead Man's Wire (2026)
Performance score6.7
Dead Man's Wire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Linda Page 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 Maria Reaves
Start here. They Will Kill You is the clearest statement of what Myha'la does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Myha'la 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.
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of They Will Kill You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dumb Money (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Bodies Bodies Bodies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Swiped (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Dumb Money but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dead Man's Wire (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Swiped but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Premature
Natalie Morales
Director
1 film together
Notably Plan B
Halina Reijn
Director
1 film together
Notably Bodies Bodies Bodies
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb Money
Sam Esmail
Director
1 film together
Notably Leave the World Behind
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Swiped
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man's Wire
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb MoneyRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwipedGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man's WireSam Esmail
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Leave the World BehindRashaad Ernesto Green
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PrematureHalina Reijn
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bodies Bodies BodiesNatalie Morales
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plan BSix 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
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Premature
as Dymond
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Honeymoon
as Myha'la
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
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. Myha'la 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
6 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
Leave the World Behind
as Ruth Scott
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Premature
as Dymond
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Leave the World Behind
as Ruth Scott
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dumb Money
as Riri
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
They Will Kill You
as Maria Reaves
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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