Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2556
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Samara Weaving 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.
Samara Weaving appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Samara. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 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 action, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jorma Taccone, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Shawn Simmons and others, Samara Weaving 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as Penelope · Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026) as Grace MacCaullay · The Valet (2022) as Olivia Allan
Career snapshot
Ranked #2556 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Most frequent director
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Most common genre
Comedy
14 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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Ready or Not, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Babysitter — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 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
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ready or Not, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Babysitter.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 7.22 films | 5.36 films |
| Action | 6.32 films | 6.46 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.39 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.610 films |
| Crime | 7.22 films | 6.63 films |
| Romance | — | 7.12 films |
| Horror | 6.63 films | 6.55 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Mystery Road
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Peggy Rogers.
Highest rated performance
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Grace MacCaullay.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Grace MacCaullay
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Grace
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Caroline Daniels
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
Grace MacCaullay
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Grace MacCaullay gives Samara Weaving a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Olivia Allan
The Valet (2022)
Performance score7.8
The Valet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Olivia Allan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Penelope
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Performance score7.8
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Penelope is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Grace
Ready or Not (2019)
Performance score7.7
Ready or Not asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grace 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 Grace MacCaullay
Start here. Ready or Not: Here I Come is the clearest statement of what Samara Weaving does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Samara 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Ready or Not: Here I Come — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ready or Not (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Valet (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Ready or Not but asks for a colder reading of it.
Carolina Caroline (2026)
Same director as The Valet, 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.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
3 films together
Notably Ready or Not: Here I Come
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Trucks
Joe Lynch
Director
1 film together
Notably Mayhem
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably Bill & Ted Face the Music
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon
Stephen Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Chevalier
E.L. Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Azrael
Shawn Simmons
Director
1 film together
Notably Eenie Meanie
Jorma Taccone
Director
1 film together
Notably Over Your Dead Body
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ready or Not: Here I ComeMcG
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Babysitter: Killer QueenMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriDamien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabylonJorma Taccone
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Over Your Dead BodyJoe Lynch
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MayhemStephen Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChevalierRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe OriginsShawn Simmons
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eenie MeanieChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster TrucksE.L. Katz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AzraelDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bill & Ted Face the MusicSix 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Penelope
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Chevalier
as Marie-Josephine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Penelope
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babylon
as Constance Moore
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Grace MacCaullay
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. Samara Weaving 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
14 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Penelope
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Penelope
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chevalier
as Marie-Josephine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Last Moment of Clarity
as Georgia Outerbridge / Lauren Clerk
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Penelope
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
as Scarlett
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
200% Wolf
as Batty (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Azrael
as Azrael
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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