Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6039
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vicky Krieps 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.
Vicky Krieps appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vicky. Yakushima's Illusion is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 crime, mystery, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Jim Jarmusch and others, Vicky Krieps 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.
Yakushima's Illusion (2025) as Corry · Colonia (2016) as Ursel · Diamond (2026)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6039 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2011–2027
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Yakushima's Illusion
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Yakushima's Illusion
Most frequent director
Martin Bourboulon
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Martin Bourboulon
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Last Vermeer, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Colonia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. The Last Vermeer, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Colonia.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | 6.92 films | 6.613 films |
| Action | 6.42 films | 6.64 films |
| Thriller | 6.43 films | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.52 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 4.43 films |
| Romance | — | 6.32 films |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Hanna
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Johanna Zadeck.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.0 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
The current state of the argument.
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 Ursel
Directed by Florian Gallenberger
as Clémence Delcourt
Directed by Unknown
as Vivienne Le Coudy
Directed by Viggo Mortensen
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
Corry
Yakushima's Illusion (2025)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Corry gives Vicky Krieps a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Diamond
Diamond (2026)
Performance score7.4
Diamond asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ursel
Colonia (2016)
Performance score7.4
Colonia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ursel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clémence Delcourt
Love Me Tender (2025)
Performance score7.3
Love Me Tender asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clémence Delcourt 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 Corry
Start here. Yakushima's Illusion is the clearest statement of what Vicky Krieps does — accessible, 122 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vicky 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.
Colonia (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Yakushima's Illusion but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dead Don't Hurt (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Colonia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love Me Tender (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Dead Don't Hurt but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diamond (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Love Me Tender — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Martin Bourboulon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Hanna
Florian Gallenberger
Director
1 film together
Notably Colonia
Fede Álvarez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl in the Spider's Web
Dan Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Vermeer
Mathieu Amalric
Director
1 film together
Notably Hold Me Tight
Daniel Brühl
Director
1 film together
Notably Next Door
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Old
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Survivor
Emily Atef
Director
1 film together
Notably More Than Ever
Viggo Mortensen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dead Don't Hurt
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Father Mother Sister Brother
Andy Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably Diamond
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Untitled Ocean's Prequel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Bourboulon
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Three Musketeers: D'ArtagnanFlorian Gallenberger
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ColoniaAndy Garcia
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DiamondBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SurvivorJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HannaViggo Mortensen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dead Don't HurtDaniel Brühl
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Next DoorDan Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last VermeerJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father Mother Sister BrotherEmily Atef
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
More Than EverMathieu Amalric
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hold Me TightM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OldFede Álvarez
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Girl in the Spider's WebBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Six 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
Yakushima's Illusion
as Corry
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
More Than Ever
as Hélène
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Yakushima's Illusion
as Corry
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Most Wanted Man
as Niki
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Yakushima's Illusion
as Corry
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. Vicky Krieps 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
15 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
Yakushima's Illusion
as Corry
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Diamond
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
More Than Ever
as Hélène
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Diamond
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
as Anne d'Autriche
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
as Anne d'Autriche
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Colonia
as Ursel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bergman Island
as Chris
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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