Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1649
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Zoë Kravitz 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.
Zoë Kravitz appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Zoë. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Leitch, Darren Aronofsky, Zoë Kravitz and others, Zoë Kravitz 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.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as Mary Jane (voice) · Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021) as Self · The Batman (2022) as Selina Kyle
Career snapshot
Ranked #1649 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Most frequent director
David Yates
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Yates
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.5
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Kin, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. The Greatest, No Reservations.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.52 films | 6.25 films | 4.51 film |
| Action | — | 6.810 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.04 films | 5.55 films |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | 6.74 films | 6.81 film |
| Crime | — | 5.71 film | 5.24 films |
| Romance | 6.71 film | 7.01 film | 4.51 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007No Reservations
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Charlotte.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8.7 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, as Reagan Gardner.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Mary Jane (voice)
Directed by Peter Ramsey
as Selina Kyle
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Toast the Knowing
Directed by George Miller
as Yvonne
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
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 Jane (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mary Jane (voice) gives Zoë Kravitz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
Performance score8.3
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale 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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Selina Kyle
The Batman (2022)
Performance score8.2
The Batman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Selina Kyle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Toast the Knowing
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Performance score7.7
Mad Max: Fury Road asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Toast the Knowing 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 Jane (voice)
Start here. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the clearest statement of what Zoë Kravitz does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Zoë 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.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Mad Max: Fury Road — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Batman (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Caught Stealing (2025)
Keeps the crime register of The Batman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Schwentke
Director
2 films together
Notably Insurgent
David Yates
Director
2 films together
Notably Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Twelve
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Kind of a Funny Story
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably After Earth
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Divergent
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Kill
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Mad Max: Fury Road
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Peter Ramsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Gerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together
Notably Viena and the Fantomes
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably The Batman
Zoë Kravitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Blink Twice
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Caught Stealing
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Rob a Bank
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Yates
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemRobert Schwentke
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InsurgentPeter Ramsey
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BatmanGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mad Max: Fury RoadMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's Kind of a Funny StoryNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DivergentDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Caught StealingZoë Kravitz
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blink TwiceAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good KillLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwelveM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After EarthGerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Viena and the FantomesDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Rob a BankSix 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
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (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
No Reservations
as Charlotte
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blink Twice
as Swanky Stewardess
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (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. Zoë Kravitz 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in action, 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 Batman
as Selina Kyle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Batman
as Selina Kyle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Viena and the Fantomes
as Midge
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Batman
as Selina Kyle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
It's Kind of a Funny Story
as Nia
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Mary Jane (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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