Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7043
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tracey Bonner 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.
Tracey Bonner appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tracey. Pushed Off a Plane and Survived is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 horror, thriller, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Nunn, Joshua John Miller, Damian Kulash and others, Tracey Bonner 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.
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived (2026) as Dr. Shapiro · Nappily Ever After (2018) as Erika · Hungry (2026) as Dionne
Career snapshot
Ranked #7043 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
Most frequent director
James Nunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James Nunn
Most common genre
Drama
7 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
6.1
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. Hungry, Pushed Off a Plane and Survived, The Exorcism — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 6 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. One Last Christmas, Den of Thieves, Candy Jar.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 4.84 films | 6.83 films |
| Action | 6.82 films | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.64 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.12 films |
| Crime | 6.91 film | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 6.43 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Mother's Day
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Grocery Checker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
8.2 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. The current state of the argument, as Dr. Shapiro.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Dr. Shapiro
Directed by Unknown
as Dionne
Directed by James Nunn
as Erika
Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour
as Sharon
Directed by Unknown
as Fridge's Mom
Directed by Jake Kasdan
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
Dr. Shapiro
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived (2026)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Shapiro gives Tracey Bonner a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dionne
Hungry (2026)
Performance score7.4
Hungry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dionne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Erika
Nappily Ever After (2018)
Performance score7.1
Nappily Ever After asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Erika is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sharon
Den of Thieves (2018)
Performance score6.8
Den of Thieves asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sharon 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 Dr. Shapiro
Start here. Pushed Off a Plane and Survived is the clearest statement of what Tracey Bonner does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tracey 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.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Pushed Off a Plane and Survived — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Nappily Ever After (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Den of Thieves (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Nappily Ever After — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hungry (2026)
Keeps the thriller register of Den of Thieves 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 Mother's Day
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Haifaa al-Mansour
Director
1 film together
Notably Nappily Ever After
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Copshop
Damian Kulash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beanie Bubble
Joshua John Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Exorcism
James Nunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Hungry
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Haifaa al-Mansour
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nappily Ever AfterJames Nunn
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HungryJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jumanji: Welcome to the JungleDamian Kulash
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Beanie BubbleJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CopshopGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mother's DayJoshua John Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ExorcismSix 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
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
as Dr. Shapiro
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nappily Ever After
as Erika
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
as Dr. Shapiro
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mother's Day
as Grocery Checker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
as Dr. Shapiro
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. Tracey Bonner 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
as Dr. Shapiro
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hungry
as Dionne
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nappily Ever After
as Erika
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Den of Thieves
as Sharon
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pushed Off a Plane and Survived
as Dr. Shapiro
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Fridge's Mom
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nappily Ever After
as Erika
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Beanie Bubble
as Rose
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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