Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3397
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Paula Malcomson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Paula is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Paula Malcomson appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Paula. The Green Mile is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 mystery, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Stacie Passon, Tommy Bertelsen, Francis Lawrence and others, Paula Malcomson 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 Green Mile (1999) as Marjorie Detterick · The Green Mile (1999) as Marjorie Detterick · Tombstone (1993) as Allie Earp
Career snapshot
Ranked #3397 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1993–2019
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Green Mile
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
The Green Mile
Most frequent director
Francis Lawrence
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Francis Lawrence
Most common genre
Science Fiction
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 15m
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
7.1
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
1990s
8.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Green Mile, The Green Mile, Tombstone — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
8.2
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. The Green Mile, The Green Mile, Tombstone.
Most productive era
2010s
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.92 films | 7.11 film | 6.22 films |
| Action | 7.51 film | — | 7.23 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.53 films |
| Crime | 8.92 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1993Tombstone
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Allie Earp.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999The Green Mile
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2019We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The current state of the argument, as Helen Clarke.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Marjorie Detterick
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Marjorie Detterick
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Allie Earp
Directed by George P. Cosmatos
as Asterid Everdeen
Directed by Francis Lawrence
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 18 of 18 titles · 18 total credits · active 1993–2025
Death by Lightning
2025 · TV · Franny Scoville
Parish
2024 · TV · Rose Parish
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023 · TV · Mabel Underwood
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
2019 · Helen Clarke
Krypton
2018 · TV · Charys-El
The Cured
2017 · Dr. Lyons
Feed
2017 · Samantha
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Asterid Everdeen
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Asterid Everdeen
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Asterid Everdeen
Ray Donovan
2013 · TV · Abby Donovan
The Hunger Games
2012 · Asterid Everdeen
Caprica
2010 · TV · Amanda Greystone
Sons of Anarchy
2008 · TV · Maureen Ashby
Deadwood
2004 · TV · Trixie
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Patricia in Mirrored Room
The Green Mile
1999 · Marjorie Detterick
Tombstone
1993 · Allie Earp
The defining work
#1
Marjorie Detterick
The Green Mile (1999)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marjorie Detterick gives Paula Malcomson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marjorie Detterick
The Green Mile (1999)
Performance score8.4
The Green Mile asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marjorie Detterick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Allie Earp
Tombstone (1993)
Performance score7.3
Tombstone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Allie Earp is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asterid Everdeen
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asterid Everdeen 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 Marjorie Detterick
Start here. The Green Mile is the clearest statement of what Paula Malcomson does — accessible, 189 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Paula 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.
Tombstone (1993)
A deliberate change of key after The Green Mile — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Green Mile (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Tombstone — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
A deliberate change of key after The Green Mile — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Feed (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Lawrence
Director
3 films together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together
Notably The Green Mile
George P. Cosmatos
Director
1 film together
Notably Tombstone
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games
Tommy Bertelsen
Director
1 film together
Notably Feed
Stacie Passon
Director
1 film together
Notably We Have Always Lived in the Castle
William Sadler
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Harry Dean Stanton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Tom Hanks
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Bonnie Hunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
David Morse
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Michael Clarke Duncan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
James Cromwell
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Michael Jeter
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Graham Greene
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Doug Hutchison
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Sam Rockwell
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Green Mile
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Lawrence
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Catching FireFrank Darabont
Director
2 films together · 8.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Green MileGeorge P. Cosmatos
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TombstoneGary Ross
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 Hunger GamesSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A.I. Artificial IntelligenceTommy Bertelsen
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FeedStacie Passon
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Have Always Lived in the CastleSix 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 Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
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 Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
as Patricia in Mirrored Room
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
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. Paula Malcomson 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 | 7.9 | 8.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #566 of 681 | #7 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.4 |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy, Crime | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Frank Darabont | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Screen presence, Drama, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 1999–1999 | 1994–2008 |
| Most iconic role | Marjorie Detterick — The Green Mile | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding — The Shawshank Redemption |
| Most rewatchable film | The Green Mile | The Shawshank Redemption |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 3 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
frank-darabont
Shared collections
Best Prison Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Frank Darabont · William Sadler · Jeffrey DeMunn
Morgan Freeman 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
26 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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 Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
as Helen Clarke
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Asterid Everdeen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Green Mile
as Marjorie Detterick
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 5 Nutevio collections
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