Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12480
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rumer Willis represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Rumer is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rumer Willis appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rumer. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 western, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Quentin Tarantino, James Franco, Fred Wolf and others, Rumer Willis 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.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) as Joanna Pettet · Now and Then (1995) as Angela Albertson · The Whole Nine Yards (2000) as Girl Running Between Jimmy and Oz
Career snapshot
Ranked #12480 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1995–2025
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
1990s
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Now and Then — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
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. Now and Then.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.41 film | 5.11 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.41 film | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 6.12 films | 7.61 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.52 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Now and Then
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Angela Albertson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7.6 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 Katherine.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Joanna Pettet
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Angela Albertson
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
as Julia
Directed by Unknown
as Rosie
Directed by James Franco
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
Joanna Pettet
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Joanna Pettet gives Rumer Willis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Angela Albertson
Now and Then (1995)
Performance score6.8
Now and Then asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angela Albertson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Katherine
Trail of Vengeance (2025)
Performance score6.5
Trail of Vengeance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katherine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Julia
Air Strike (2018)
Performance score6.5
Air Strike asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julia 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 Joanna Pettet
Start here. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is the clearest statement of what Rumer Willis does — accessible, 162 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rumer 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.
Now and Then (1995)
Keeps the comedy register of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Air Strike (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Now and Then but asks for a colder reading of it.
Future World (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Air Strike — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trail of Vengeance (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Future World — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lesli Linka Glatter
Director
1 film together
Notably Now and Then
Jonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Nine Yards
Fred Wolf
Director
1 film together
Notably The House Bunny
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably Future World
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodLesli Linka Glatter
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now and ThenJonathan Lynn
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 Whole Nine YardsFred Wolf
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The House BunnyJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Future WorldSix 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
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Now and Then
as Angela Albertson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
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. Rumer Willis 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
30 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 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
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hostage
as Amanda Talley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Now and Then
as Angela Albertson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hostage
as Amanda Talley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hostage
as Amanda Talley
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Now and Then
as Angela Albertson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Joanna Pettet
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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