Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#54957
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Sophie von Haselberg represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Sophie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Sophie von Haselberg appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sophie. Ugly Cry is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Emily Robinson, Matthew Shear, Max Jenkins and others, Sophie von Haselberg 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.
Ugly Cry (2026) · Frankie and Johnny (1991) as Party Child · Ask for Jane (2019) as Joyce
Career snapshot
Ranked #54957 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Ugly Cry
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Ugly Cry
Most frequent director
Emily Robinson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Emily Robinson
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Frankie and Johnny — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
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. Frankie and Johnny.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 6.52 films | 6.12 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.51 film | 6.34 films |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | 6.12 films |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Party Child.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Ugly Cry
7.0 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 Waddles
The current state of the argument, as Joy.
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.
8 of 8 films
Directed by Emily Robinson
as Party Child
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Joyce
Directed by Unknown
as Becky
Directed by Matthew Shear
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
Ugly Cry
Ugly Cry (2026)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Sophie von Haselberg a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Party Child
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Performance score6.7
Frankie and Johnny asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Party Child is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joyce
Ask for Jane (2019)
Performance score6.6
Ask for Jane asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joyce is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Len
By Design (2026)
Performance score6.5
By Design asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Len 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
Start here. Ugly Cry is the clearest statement of what Sophie von Haselberg does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sophie 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.
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Keeps the comedy register of Ugly Cry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ask for Jane (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Frankie and Johnny but asks for a colder reading of it.
By Design (2026)
Same director as Ask for Jane, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Fantasy Life (2026)
Keeps the romance register of By Design but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Frankie and Johnny
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Irrational Man
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fabulous Four
Max Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Waddles
Matthew Shear
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantasy Life
Emily Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Ugly Cry
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Emily Robinson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ugly CryGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frankie and JohnnyWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irrational ManMatthew Shear
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantasy LifeJocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fabulous FourMax Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WaddlesSix 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
Frankie and Johnny
as Party Child
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ask for Jane
as Joyce
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Frankie and Johnny
as Party Child
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Frankie and Johnny
as Party Child
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ugly Cry
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. Sophie von Haselberg 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
35 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
6 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
Ugly Cry
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ugly Cry
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ask for Jane
as Joyce
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
By Design
as Len
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ugly Cry
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ugly Cry
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Frankie and Johnny
as Party Child
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ask for Jane
as Joyce
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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