Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1383
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rosemarie DeWitt 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.
Rosemarie DeWitt appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rosemarie. La La Land 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, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rick Gomez, Andy Garcia, Parker Finn and others, Rosemarie DeWitt 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.
La La Land (2016) as Laura · Out of My Mind (2024) as Diane · Cinderella Man (2005) as Sara
Career snapshot
Ranked #1383 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
La La Land
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
La La Land
Most frequent director
Rick Gomez
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rick Gomez
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Rachel Getting Married, Cinderella Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Rachel Getting Married, Cinderella Man.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 6.82 films | 6.510 films | 5.53 films |
| Action | — | 5.61 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.32 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.58 films | 4.32 films |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 7.13 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Cinderella Man
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sara.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016La La Land
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
2026Diamond
The current state of the argument.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Diane
Directed by Unknown
as Laura
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Veronica Sinclair-Brown
Directed by Unknown
as Sara
Directed by Ron Howard
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Diane
Out of My Mind (2024)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Diane gives Rosemarie DeWitt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Laura
La La Land (2016)
Performance score8.1
La La Land asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laura is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Veronica Sinclair-Brown
The Professor (2019)
Performance score7.2
The Professor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Veronica Sinclair-Brown is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sara
Cinderella Man (2005)
Performance score7.2
Cinderella Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sara 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 Diane
Start here. Out of My Mind is the clearest statement of what Rosemarie DeWitt does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rosemarie 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.
Cinderella Man (2005)
Keeps the drama register of Out of My Mind but asks for a colder reading of it.
La La Land (2016)
Keeps the romance register of Cinderella Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Professor (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of La La Land but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diamond (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Professor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella Man
Jonathan Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Rachel Getting Married
John Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably The Company Men
Kenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together
Notably Margaret
Nicole Kassell
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Bit of Heaven
Lynn Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Sister's Sister
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Promised Land
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Watch
Michael Cuesta
Director
1 film together
Notably Kill the Messenger
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Men, Women & Children
Joe Swanberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Digging for Fire
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably La La Land
Jamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Virginia
Parker Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Smile 2
Andy Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably Diamond
Rick Gomez
Director
1 film together
Notably She Dances
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La La LandRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cinderella ManAndy Garcia
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DiamondParker Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smile 2Michael Cuesta
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill the MessengerJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men, Women & ChildrenLynn Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Sister's SisterJohn Wells
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Company MenNicole Kassell
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 Little Bit of HeavenKenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MargaretGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Promised LandJonathan Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rachel Getting MarriedJamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet VirginiaAkiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WatchJoe Swanberg
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Digging for FireRick Gomez
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She DancesSix 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
La La Land
as Laura
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Out of My Mind
as Diane
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
La La Land
as Laura
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Margaret
as Mrs. Maretti
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Out of My Mind
as Diane
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. Rosemarie DeWitt 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
15 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
La La Land
as Laura
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Diamond
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rachel Getting Married
as Rachel Buchman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Smile 2
as Elizabeth Riley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
La La Land
as Laura
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Watch
as Abby
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
La La Land
as Laura
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
La La Land
as Laura
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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