Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15532
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Nina Siemaszko works on quiet performance 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.
Nina Siemaszko appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nina. Jakob the Liar 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 quiet performance, drama, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sofia Coppola, Peter Kassovitz, Peter O'Fallon and others, Nina Siemaszko 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.
Jakob the Liar (1999) as Rosa Frankfurter · Suicide Kings (1997) as Jennifer · Airheads (1994) as Suzzi
Career snapshot
Ranked #15532 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
1994–2013
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Jakob the Liar
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
Jakob the Liar
Most frequent director
Sofia Coppola
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sofia Coppola
Most common genre
Crime
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
1990s
6.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Jakob the Liar, Suicide Kings, Airheads — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
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. Jakob the Liar, Suicide Kings, Airheads.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | 1990s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 5.41 film |
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | — |
| Crime | 6.42 films | 5.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Airheads
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Suzzi.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1997Suicide Kings
6.6 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
2013The Bling Ring
The current state of the argument, as Vegas Detective (Female).
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 Rosa Frankfurter
Directed by Peter Kassovitz
as Jennifer
Directed by Peter O'Fallon
as Vegas Detective (Female)
Directed by Sofia Coppola
as Suzzi
Directed by Michael Lehmann
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
Rosa Frankfurter
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rosa Frankfurter gives Nina Siemaszko a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jennifer
Suicide Kings (1997)
Performance score6.6
Suicide Kings asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jennifer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vegas Detective (Female)
The Bling Ring (2013)
Performance score6.5
The Bling Ring asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vegas Detective (Female) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Suzzi
Airheads (1994)
Performance score6.5
Airheads asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Suzzi 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 Rosa Frankfurter
Start here. Jakob the Liar is the clearest statement of what Nina Siemaszko does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nina 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.
Airheads (1994)
Keeps the comedy register of Jakob the Liar but asks for a colder reading of it.
Suicide Kings (1997)
Keeps the comedy register of Airheads but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bling Ring (2013)
Keeps the crime register of Suicide Kings 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.
Peter Kassovitz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jakob the LiarPeter O'Fallon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide KingsMichael Lehmann
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AirheadsSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bling RingSix 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
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Bling Ring
as Vegas Detective (Female)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter
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. Nina Siemaszko 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.
Crime Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in crime, 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
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Bling Ring
as Vegas Detective (Female)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Suicide Kings
as Jennifer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Jakob the Liar
as Rosa Frankfurter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Airheads
as Suzzi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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