Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1772
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Zazie Beetz 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.
Zazie Beetz appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Zazie. Joker is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 action, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gore Verbinski, Pierre Perifel, Todd Phillips and others, Zazie Beetz 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.
Joker (2019) as Sophie Dumond · The Bad Guys 2 (2025) as Diane Foxington (voice) · The Bad Guys (2022) as Diane Foxington (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1772 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Joker
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Joker
Most frequent director
David Leitch
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. They Will Kill You, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, The Dutchman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Joker, High Flying Bird, Wounds.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 6.34 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 7.34 films |
| Thriller | 6.34 films | 6.03 films |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | 7.16 films |
| Crime | 8.41 film | 6.83 films |
| Romance | 5.01 film | — |
| Horror | 4.01 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017Geostorm
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dana.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Joker
8.4 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 Dutchman
The current state of the argument, as Kaya.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Sophie Dumond
Directed by Todd Phillips
as Asia Reaves
Directed by Unknown
as Diane Foxington (voice)
Directed by Pierre Perifel
as Domino
Directed by David Leitch
as Diane Foxington (voice)
Directed by Pierre Perifel
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
Sophie Dumond
Joker (2019)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sophie Dumond gives Zazie Beetz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Asia Reaves
They Will Kill You (2026)
Performance score7.6
They Will Kill You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asia Reaves is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Diane Foxington (voice)
The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
Performance score7.6
The Bad Guys 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diane Foxington (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Domino
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Domino 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 Sophie Dumond
Start here. Joker is the clearest statement of what Zazie Beetz does — accessible, 122 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Zazie 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.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Joker — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Bad Guys (2022)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
Same director as The Bad Guys, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
They Will Kill You (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of The Bad Guys 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Todd Phillips
Director
2 films together
Notably Joker
Pierre Perifel
Director
2 films together
Notably The Bad Guys 2
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Geostorm
Noah Hawley
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy in the Sky
David Silverman
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinct
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Pierre Perifel
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Bad Guys 2Todd Phillips
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
JokerGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't DieDavid Silverman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctDean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GeostormNoah Hawley
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucy in the SkySix 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
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lucy in the Sky
as Erin Eccles
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bullet Train
as The Hornet
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
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. Zazie Beetz 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lucy in the Sky
as Erin Eccles
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wounds
as Alicia
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool 2
as Domino
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Deadpool 2
as Domino
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Bad Guys
as Diane Foxington (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Joker
as Sophie Dumond
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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