Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3894
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Peyton List 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.
Peyton List appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Peyton. Gothic Springs is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 horror, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Beth McCarthy-Miller, Alejandro Brugués, Rachel Lee Goldenberg and others, Peyton List 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.
Gothic Springs (2019) as Blair · Swimming for Gold (2020) as Claire Carpenter · Then Came You (2018) as Ashley
Career snapshot
Ranked #3894 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Gothic Springs
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Gothic Springs
Most frequent director
Beth McCarthy-Miller
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Beth McCarthy-Miller
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Gothic Springs, Batman: Hush, Anthem of a Teenage Prophet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. 27 Dresses.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.15 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.72 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 6.74 films | 6.04 films |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Romance | 6.51 film | 6.72 films | 6.32 films |
| Horror | — | 5.41 film | 5.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200827 Dresses
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Jane.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Gothic Springs
8.2 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
The current state of the argument, as Self - Presenter.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Blair
Directed by Unknown
as Ashley
Directed by Unknown
as Bea
Directed by Unknown
as Batgirl / Barbara Gordon (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Blair
Gothic Springs (2019)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Blair gives Peyton List a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Claire Carpenter
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Performance score8.1
Swimming for Gold asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire Carpenter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ashley
Then Came You (2018)
Performance score7.5
Then Came You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ashley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bea
Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
Performance score7.2
Girl Haunts Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bea 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 Blair
Start here. Gothic Springs is the clearest statement of what Peyton List does — accessible, 12 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Peyton 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.
Then Came You (2018)
Same director as Gothic Springs, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Batman: Hush (2019)
Same director as Then Came You, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Same director as Batman: Hush, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
Same director as Swimming for Gold, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably 27 Dresses
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Allen Coulter
Director
1 film together
Notably Remember Me
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Hubie Halloween
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Valley Girl
Alejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together
Notably The Inheritance
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Netflix Tudum 2025
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Allen Coulter
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remember MeAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
27 DressesJon Turteltaub
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 Sorcerer's ApprenticeSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hubie HalloweenAlejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InheritanceRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valley GirlBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Netflix Tudum 2025Six 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
Swimming for Gold
as Claire Carpenter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Remember Me
as Taunting Classmate
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Gothic Springs
as Blair
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self - Presenter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gothic Springs
as Blair
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. Peyton List 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Gothic Springs
as Blair
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Hush
as Batgirl / Barbara Gordon (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Remember Me
as Taunting Classmate
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hubie Halloween
as Peggy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman: Hush
as Batgirl / Barbara Gordon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
as Becky Barnes (Young)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Something Borrowed
as Young Darcy (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bereavement
as Wendy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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