Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2363
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rebel Wilson 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.
Rebel Wilson appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rebel. Jojo Rabbit is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 comedy, music, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rebel Wilson, Simon West, Chris Foggin and others, Rebel Wilson 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.
Jojo Rabbit (2019) as Fraulein Rahm · The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020) as Self · Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) as Fat Amy
Career snapshot
Ranked #2363 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Jojo Rabbit
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Jojo Rabbit
Most frequent director
Rebel Wilson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rebel Wilson
Most common genre
Comedy
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jojo Rabbit, Cats, Pitch Perfect 3 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. Ghost Rider.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | — | 6.05 films | 5.62 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | 6.22 films | 5.61 film |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.115 films | 5.34 films |
| Crime | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.14 films | 5.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Ghost Rider
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Goth Girl in Alley.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Jojo Rabbit
8.1 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
2026The Deb
The current state of the argument, as Janette.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Fraulein Rahm
Directed by Taika Waititi
as Patricia "Fat Amy" Hobart
Directed by Unknown
as Fat Amy
Directed by Elizabeth Banks
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Robin
Directed by Christian Ditter
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
Fraulein Rahm
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fraulein Rahm gives Rebel Wilson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patricia "Fat Amy" Hobart
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Performance score7.0
Pitch Perfect 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patricia "Fat Amy" Hobart is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fat Amy
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Performance score7.0
Pitch Perfect 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fat Amy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020)
Performance score6.8
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Fraulein Rahm
Start here. Jojo Rabbit is the clearest statement of what Rebel Wilson does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rebel 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.
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Jojo Rabbit but asks for a colder reading of it.
How to Be Single (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of Pitch Perfect 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of How to Be Single but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020)
Same director as Pitch Perfect 3, 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.
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost Rider
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Bridesmaids
Leslye Headland
Director
1 film together
Notably Bachelorette
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably What to Expect When You're Expecting
Jonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together
Notably Small Apartments
Brian Dannelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Struck by Lightning
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Pain & Gain
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Pitch Perfect 2
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Grimsby
Mandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Christian Ditter
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Be Single
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Cats
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Jojo Rabbit
Tom Stern
Director
1 film together
Notably The Almond and the Seahorse
Alex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together
Notably Senior Year
Chris Foggin
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinsel Town
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably Bride Hard
Rebel Wilson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Deb
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jojo RabbitElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pitch Perfect 2Paul Feig
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BridesmaidsChristian Ditter
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Be SingleMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pain & GainShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Secret of the TombBrian Dannelly
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Struck by LightningLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GrimsbyKirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What to Expect When You're ExpectingAlex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Senior YearMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost RiderChris Foggin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinsel TownJonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Small ApartmentsSimon West
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bride HardLeslye Headland
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BacheloretteMandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieTom Stern
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Almond and the SeahorseTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CatsRebel Wilson
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DebSix 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
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Juliet & Romeo
as Lady Capulet
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
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. Rebel Wilson 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
19 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
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Juliet & Romeo
as Lady Capulet
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Grimsby
as Dawn Grobham
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Jojo Rabbit
as Fraulein Rahm
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ghost Rider
as Goth Girl in Alley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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