Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#438
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Natalie Portman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Natalie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Natalie Portman appears in 53 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Natalie. The Gallerist is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 drama, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tom Hooper, Cathy Yan, Guy Ritchie and others, Natalie Portman 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.
The Gallerist (2026) as Polina Polinski · Heat (1995) as Lauren Gustafson · Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Jane Foster
Career snapshot
Ranked #438 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
53
1994–2026
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Gallerist
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Gallerist
Most frequent director
George Lucas
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With George Lucas
Most common genre
Drama
31 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
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
7.2
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
1990s
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Anywhere but Here, Mars Attacks! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Anywhere but Here, Mars Attacks!.
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 | 7.34 films | 6.811 films | 6.013 films | 5.53 films |
| Action | 8.14 films | 7.53 films | 6.75 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | 9.01 film | 7.72 films | 6.32 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.66 films | 5.93 films | 7.53 films |
| Crime | 8.53 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | 6.43 films | 6.79 films | 5.65 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 7.12 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mathilda Lando.
First Nutevio masterpiece
1995Heat
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Gallerist
10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Polina Polinski.
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.
53 of 53 films
as Polina Polinski
Directed by Cathy Yan
as Mathilda Lando
Directed by Luc Besson
as Evey
Directed by James McTeigue
as Lauren Gustafson
Directed by Michael Mann
as Jane Foster
Directed by Anthony Russo
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 60 titles · 73 total credits · active 1994–2026
Photograph 51
2026 · Rosalind Franklin
The Gallerist
2026 · Polina Polinski · Producer
Fountain of Youth
2025 · Charlotte Purdue
The Twits
2025 · Mary Muggle-Wump (voice)
Arco
2025 · Producer
High & Low – John Galliano
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Lady in the Lake
2024 · TV · Maddie Schwartz · Executive Producer
May December
2023 · Elizabeth · Producer
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023 · TV · Self
Secrets of the Elephants
2023 · TV · Self - Narrator (voice)
Angel City
2023 · TV · Self · Executive Producer
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Self - Jane Foster / The Mighty Thor
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · TV · Jane Foster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Jane Foster
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · Sam Turner
Lucy in the Sky
2019 · Lucy Cola
This Changes Everything
2019 · Self
Vox Lux
2018 · Celeste Montgomery · Executive Producer
Annihilation
2018 · Lena
Song to Song
2017 · Rhonda
Jackie
2016 · Jackie Kennedy
Planetarium
2016 · Laura Barlow
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016 · Producer
The defining work
#1
Polina Polinski
The Gallerist (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Polina Polinski gives Natalie Portman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mathilda Lando
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Performance score8.7
Léon: The Professional asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mathilda Lando is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Evey
V for Vendetta (2006)
Performance score8.6
V for Vendetta asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Evey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lauren Gustafson
Heat (1995)
Performance score8.6
Heat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lauren Gustafson 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 Polina Polinski
Start here. The Gallerist is the clearest statement of what Natalie Portman does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Natalie 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.
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Keeps the drama register of The Gallerist but asks for a colder reading of it.
Heat (1995)
Keeps the crime register of Léon: The Professional but asks for a colder reading of it.
V for Vendetta (2006)
Keeps the action register of Heat but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Keeps the action register of V for Vendetta but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Lucas
Director
3 films together
Notably Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Michael Mann
Director
2 films together
Notably Heat
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together
Notably The Darjeeling Limited
Terrence Malick
Director
2 films together
Notably Knight of Cups
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Léon: The Professional
Ted Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Beautiful Girls
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Everyone Says I Love You
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Mars Attacks!
Matt Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Where the Heart Is
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Zoolander
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Mountain
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Garden State
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Closer
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together
Notably Goya's Ghosts
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Paris Je T'aime
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together
Notably V for Vendetta
Wong Kar-Wai
Director
1 film together
Notably My Blueberry Nights
Fatih Akin
Director
1 film together
Notably New York, I Love You
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Boleyn Girl
Jim Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Brothers
Casey Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Still Here
Don Roos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Woman
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Swan
Spencer Susser
Director
1 film together
Notably Hesher
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Highness
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably No Strings Attached
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor
Alan Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: The Dark World
Natalie Portman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Tale of Love and Darkness
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably Jane Got a Gun
Rebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together
Notably Planetarium
Pablo Larraín
Director
1 film together
Notably Jackie
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Annihilation
Brady Corbet
Director
1 film together
Notably Vox Lux
Noah Hawley
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy in the Sky
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: Love and Thunder
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably May December
Kevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together
Notably High & Low – John Galliano
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twits
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Fountain of Youth
Cathy Yan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gallerist
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Photograph 51
Robert De Niro
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Al Pacino
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Ted Levine
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Val Kilmer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Jon Voight
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Tom Sizemore
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Diane Venora
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Amy Brenneman
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Ashley Judd
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Mykelti Williamson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Wes Studi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Dennis Haysbert
Actor
1 film together
Notably Heat
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Lucas
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithMichael Mann
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
HeatWes Anderson
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Darjeeling LimitedTerrence Malick
Director
2 films together · 5.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Knight of CupsCathy Yan
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GalleristAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Léon: The ProfessionalJames McTeigue
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
V for VendettaDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black SwanJim Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrothersZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Garden StateMatt Williams
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Where the Heart IsBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and ThunderKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThorXavier Dolan
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 Death & Life of John F. DonovanAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold MountainSpencer Susser
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HesherJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paris Je T'aimeMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CloserAlan Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: The Dark WorldJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Other Boleyn GirlTed Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beautiful GirlsTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
May DecemberTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: Love and ThunderMiloš Forman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goya's GhostsTim 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
Mars Attacks!Alex Garland
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnihilationPablo Larraín
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JackieWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everyone Says I Love YouWong Kar-Wai
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Blueberry NightsGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fountain of YouthIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Strings AttachedKevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High & Low – John GallianoDon 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 WomanBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZoolanderCasey Affleck
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Still HereFatih Akin
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York, I Love YouPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TwitsBrady 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 LuxGavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jane Got a GunNatalie Portman
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Tale of Love and DarknessDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your HighnessNoah Hawley
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucy in the SkyRebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PlanetariumTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Photograph 51Six 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
The Gallerist
as Polina Polinski
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hotel Chevalier
as Jack's Girlfriend
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Gallerist
as Polina Polinski
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Darjeeling Limited
as Jack's Ex-Girlfriend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Gallerist
as Polina Polinski
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. Natalie Portman has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.8 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #581 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Crime, Thriller, Action | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Michael Mann | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Screen presence, Villain presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1995–1995 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Lauren Gustafson — Heat | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Heat | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Top 100 Crime Movies, Crime Movies, Thriller Movies
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
32 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
31 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 Gallerist
as Polina Polinski
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Heat
as Lauren Gustafson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lucy in the Sky
as Lucy Cola
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fountain of Youth
as Charlotte Purdue
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Gallerist
as Polina Polinski
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avengers: Endgame
as Jane Foster
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Beautiful Girls
as Marty
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Heat
as Lauren Gustafson
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 6 Nutevio collections
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