Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17511
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Natassia Malthe represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Natassia is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Natassia Malthe appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Natassia. Alpha is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 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 romance, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Albert Hughes, Uwe Boll, McG and others, Natassia Malthe 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.
Alpha (2018) as Rho · Me, Myself & Irene (2000) as Bikini Girl · Chaos (2005) as Gina Lopez
Career snapshot
Ranked #17511 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1998–2023
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Alpha
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Me, Myself & Irene
Most frequent director
Uwe Boll
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Uwe Boll
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
2020s
6.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Holiday Boyfriend — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.0
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. Disturbing Behavior.
Most productive era
2000s
7 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 | — | 6.22 films | 5.53 films | — |
| Action | — | 5.44 films | 5.33 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.31 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.32 films | 6.21 film | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | 6.21 film | 6.01 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 4.82 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mary Jo Copeland.
Highest rated performance
6.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2018Alpha
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Mandy.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Rho
Directed by Albert Hughes
as Xenia
Directed by McG
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
Mandy
Holiday Boyfriend (2023)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mandy gives Natassia Malthe a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rho
Alpha (2018)
Performance score6.8
Alpha asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rho is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bikini Girl
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Performance score6.6
Me, Myself & Irene asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bikini Girl is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Molly
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Performance score6.5
Assault on Wall Street 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Mandy
Start here. Holiday Boyfriend is the clearest statement of what Natassia Malthe does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 6.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Natassia 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.
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Keeps the comedy register of Holiday Boyfriend but asks for a colder reading of it.
This Means War (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of Me, Myself & Irene but asks for a colder reading of it.
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Keeps the action register of This Means War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alpha (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Assault on Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Uwe Boll
Director
2 films together
Notably Assault on Wall Street
David Nutter
Director
1 film together
Notably Disturbing Behavior
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Me, Myself & Irene
Rick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Halloween: Resurrection
Rob Bowman
Director
1 film together
Notably Elektra
Corey Yuen
Director
1 film together
Notably DOA: Dead or Alive
Daniel Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex and Death 101
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably This Means War
Albert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Alpha
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Uwe Boll
Director
2 films together · 4.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Assault on Wall StreetAlbert Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlphaBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me, Myself & IreneMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Means WarChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefDaniel Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex and Death 101David Nutter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disturbing BehaviorCorey Yuen
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DOA: Dead or AliveRob Bowman
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElektraRick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Halloween: ResurrectionSix 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
Me, Myself & Irene
as Bikini Girl
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sex and Death 101
as Bambi (#63)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Me, Myself & Irene
as Bikini Girl
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Me, Myself & Irene
as Bikini Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Holiday Boyfriend
as Mandy
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. Natassia Malthe 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Lotus Land Waitress
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chaos
as Gina Lopez
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sex and Death 101
as Bambi (#63)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Disturbing Behavior
as Mary Jo Copeland
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Chaos
as Gina Lopez
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
DOA: Dead or Alive
as Ayane
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sex and Death 101
as Bambi (#63)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Elektra
as Typhoid
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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