Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4967
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Renée Elise Goldsberry 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.
Renée Elise Goldsberry appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Renée. On Broadway is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 drama, thriller, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kathryn Bigelow, Thomas Kail, Billy Porter and others, Renée Elise Goldsberry 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.
On Broadway (2019) as Self (archive footage) · Hamilton (2025) as Angelica Schuyler · Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024) as Colleen Voyd (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4967 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2014–2025
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
On Broadway
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
On Broadway
Most frequent director
Kathryn Bigelow
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kathryn Bigelow
Most common genre
Drama
4 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
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
6.6
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
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A House of Dynamite, Hamilton, Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. On Broadway, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Sisters.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.94 films |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cynthia Barnes.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019On Broadway
8.7 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
2025Hamilton
The current state of the argument, as Angelica Schuyler.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Angelica Schuyler
Directed by Thomas Kail
as Colleen Voyd (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as "Sunday" Legend #3
Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
as Melodia (voice)
Directed by Steve Evangelatos
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
Self (archive footage)
On Broadway (2019)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) gives Renée Elise Goldsberry a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Angelica Schuyler
Hamilton (2025)
Performance score8.1
Hamilton asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angelica Schuyler is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Colleen Voyd (voice)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
Performance score7.5
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Colleen Voyd (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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"Sunday" Legend #3
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Performance score7.4
tick, tick... BOOM! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. "Sunday" Legend #3 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 Self (archive footage)
Start here. On Broadway is the clearest statement of what Renée Elise Goldsberry does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Renée 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.
Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing (2020)
A deliberate change of key after On Broadway — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
A deliberate change of key after tick, tick... BOOM! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hamilton (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jason Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Sisters
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Steve Evangelatos
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Director
1 film together
Notably tick, tick... BOOM!
Billy Porter
Director
1 film together
Notably Anything's Possible
Thomas Kail
Director
1 film together
Notably Hamilton
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably A House of Dynamite
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thomas Kail
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HamiltonLin-Manuel Miranda
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
tick, tick... BOOM!Steve Evangelatos
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the SongwingKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A House of DynamiteEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The House with a Clock in Its WallsJason Moore
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SistersBilly Porter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anything's PossibleSix 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
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hamilton
as Angelica Schuyler
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
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. Renée Elise Goldsberry 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in drama, 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
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hamilton
as Angelica Schuyler
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
as Selena Izard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
as Colleen Voyd (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Anything's Possible
as Selene
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
as Selena Izard
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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