Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2859
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vanessa Marshall represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Vanessa is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Vanessa Marshall appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vanessa. The King of Kings 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, animation, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Genndy Tartakovsky, Ken Cunningham, Sam Liu and others, Vanessa Marshall 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.
The King of Kings (2025) as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice) · Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) as Wonder Woman (voice) · Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014) as Hera Syndulla (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2859 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The King of Kings
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The King of Kings
Most frequent director
Jay Oliva
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jay Oliva
Most common genre
Animation
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.6
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
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Batman: Bad Blood, Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Justice League: The New Frontier, Supernova.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.81 film | 7.25 films | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | 5.01 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.21 film | 5.93 films |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Horror | 5.01 film | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Supernova
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sweetie (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
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. The current state of the argument, as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice).
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 Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Hera Syndulla (voice)
Directed by Steward Lee
as Wonder Woman (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Diana / Wonder Woman (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Vault Voice (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
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
Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
The King of Kings (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice) gives Vanessa Marshall a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hera Syndulla (voice)
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014)
Performance score7.6
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hera Syndulla (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wonder Woman (voice)
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Performance score7.4
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wonder Woman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Diana / Wonder Woman (voice)
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Performance score7.2
Superman: Red Son asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diana / Wonder Woman (voice) 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 Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
Start here. The King of Kings is the clearest statement of what Vanessa Marshall does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vanessa 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.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Keeps the animation register of The King of Kings but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014)
Keeps the action register of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox but asks for a colder reading of it.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Keeps the action register of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together
Notably Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Supernova
Dave Bullock
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: The New Frontier
Victor Cook
Director
1 film together
Notably Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
Steward Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman: Red Son
Ken Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Fixed
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Oliva
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: The Flashpoint ParadoxSteward Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of RebellionAaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! To the MoviesSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman: Red SonVictor Cook
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dante's Inferno: An Animated EpicDave Bullock
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: The New FrontierKen Cunningham
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission DemolitionGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FixedWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SupernovaSix 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
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fixed
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
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. Vanessa Marshall 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
25 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.
Animation Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in animation, 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
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
as Female Sinner / Lust Minion #2 (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman: Bad Blood
as Renee (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The King of Kings
as Mary of Bethany / Adulteress (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Vault Voice (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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