Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4503
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Greta Gerwig 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.
Greta Gerwig appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Greta. Isle of Dogs is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Noah Baumbach, Alex Ross Perry, Jon Bass and others, Greta Gerwig 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.
Isle of Dogs (2018) as Tracy Walker (voice) · 20th Century Women (2016) as Abbie · Pavements (2025) as Self (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4503 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2010–2025
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Isle of Dogs
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Isle of Dogs
Most frequent director
Noah Baumbach
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Noah Baumbach
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Isle of Dogs, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Jackie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Isle of Dogs, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Jackie.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.17 films | 5.92 films |
| Comedy | 6.09 films | 4.94 films |
| Romance | 5.86 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Greenberg
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Florence Marr.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2018Isle of Dogs
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025Pavements
The current state of the argument, as Self (uncredited).
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.
15 of 15 films
as Tracy Walker (voice)
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Nancy Tuckerman
Directed by Pablo Larraín
as Self (uncredited)
Directed by Alex Ross Perry
as Lois Sukenick
Directed by Noah Baumbach
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
Tracy Walker (voice)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tracy Walker (voice) gives Greta Gerwig a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Abbie
20th Century Women (2016)
Performance score7.6
20th Century Women asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abbie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nancy Tuckerman
Jackie (2016)
Performance score7.0
Jackie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nancy Tuckerman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self (uncredited)
Pavements (2025)
Performance score6.7
Pavements asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (uncredited) 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 Tracy Walker (voice)
Start here. Isle of Dogs is the clearest statement of what Greta Gerwig does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Greta 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.
20th Century Women (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Isle of Dogs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jackie (2016)
Keeps the drama register of 20th Century Women but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pavements (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Jackie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jay Kelly (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Pavements but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Noah Baumbach
Director
4 films together
Notably The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably No Strings Attached
Jason Winer
Director
1 film together
Notably Arthur
Whit Stillman
Director
1 film together
Notably Damsels in Distress
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably To Rome with Love
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Humbling
Rebecca Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Maggie's Plan
Pablo Larraín
Director
1 film together
Notably Jackie
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Isle of Dogs
Jon Bass
Director
1 film together
Notably Carole & Grey
Alex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Pavements
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Noah Baumbach
Director
4 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Isle of DogsAlex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PavementsPablo Larraín
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JackieIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Strings AttachedWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Rome with LoveRebecca Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maggie's PlanJason Winer
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArthurWhit Stillman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Damsels in DistressBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HumblingJon Bass
Director
1 film together · 1.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carole & GreySix 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
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (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
Greenberg
as Florence Marr
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pavements
as Self (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (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. Greta Gerwig 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
13 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
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Damsels in Distress
as Violet Wister
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Isle of Dogs
as Tracy Walker (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jackie
as Nancy Tuckerman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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