Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11126
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Suki Waterhouse 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.
Suki Waterhouse appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Suki. Carte Blanche is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 music, documentary, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mary Harron, Nick Moran, Philippa Lowthorpe and others, Suki Waterhouse 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.
Carte Blanche (2019) as Lulu · Love, Rosie (2014) as Bethany Williams · Broken English (2026) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #11126 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Carte Blanche
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Carte Blanche
Most frequent director
Mary Harron
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Mary Harron
Most common genre
Thriller
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Broken English, All the Devils Are Here, Dalíland — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
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. Burn, Charlie Says, Carte Blanche.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.53 films | 6.13 films |
| Action | 5.85 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.27 films | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.45 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 5.53 films | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.54 films | 7.11 film |
| Horror | 5.93 films | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Love, Rosie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bethany Williams.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Carte Blanche
8.3 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
2026Broken English
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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 Lulu
Directed by Unknown
as Bethany Williams
Directed by Christian Ditter
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Ms. Norman
Directed by Rob Letterman
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Lulu
Carte Blanche (2019)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lulu gives Suki Waterhouse a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bethany Williams
Love, Rosie (2014)
Performance score7.8
Love, Rosie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bethany Williams is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Broken English (2026)
Performance score7.3
Broken English asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chloe
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Performance score7.0
The Broken Hearts Gallery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chloe 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 Lulu
Start here. Carte Blanche is the clearest statement of what Suki Waterhouse does — accessible, 18 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Suki 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.
Love, Rosie (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Carte Blanche — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Love, Rosie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Pokémon Detective Pikachu — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Broken English (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Broken Hearts Gallery — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mary Harron
Director
2 films together
Notably Dalíland
Christian Ditter
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Rosie
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Insurgent
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Mandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Ana Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bad Batch
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably Future World
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Nation
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably A Rainy Day in New York
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Natalie Krinsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Broken Hearts Gallery
Philippa Lowthorpe
Director
1 film together
Notably Misbehaviour
Nick Moran
Director
1 film together
Notably Creation Stories
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mary Harron
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
DalílandChristian Ditter
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, RosieNatalie Krinsky
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Broken Hearts GalleryRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon Detective PikachuWoody 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
A Rainy Day in New YorkPhilippa Lowthorpe
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MisbehaviourRobert 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
InsurgentSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination NationBurr Steers
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesNick Moran
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creation StoriesAna Lily Amirpour
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bad BatchMandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieJames 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
Love, Rosie
as Bethany Williams
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love, Rosie
as Bethany Williams
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Suki Waterhouse
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
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. Suki Waterhouse 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Creation Stories
as Gemma
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Carte Blanche
as Lulu
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Ms. Norman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Misbehaviour
as Sandra Anne Wolsfeld - Miss USA
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Assassination Nation
as Sarah Lacey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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