Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6599
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Katie Aselton 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.
Katie Aselton appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Katie. Bombshell is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 romance, mystery, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katie Aselton, Bill Burr, Tiller Russell and others, Katie Aselton 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.
Bombshell (2019) as Alicia · The Gift (2015) as Joan Callem · The Unholy (2021) as Natalie Gates
Career snapshot
Ranked #6599 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Bombshell
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Bombshell
Most frequent director
Katie Aselton
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Katie Aselton
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bombshell, The Devil Has a Name, The Tomorrow Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.0
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. Bombshell, The Devil Has a Name, The Tomorrow Man.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 6.18 films | 2.52 films |
| Thriller | 6.02 films | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | 5.86 films | 6.21 film |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 5.93 films | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Cyrus
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Pretty Girl.
Highest rated performance
2019Bombshell
6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020Synchronic
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Magic Hour
The current state of the argument, as Erin.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Natalie Gates
Directed by Unknown
as Tara Dannelly
Directed by Aaron Moorhead
as Joan Callem
Directed by Joel Edgerton
as Erin
Directed by Katie Aselton
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
Natalie Gates
The Unholy (2021)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Natalie Gates gives Katie Aselton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tara Dannelly
Synchronic (2020)
Performance score6.8
Synchronic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tara Dannelly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alicia
Bombshell (2019)
Performance score6.7
Bombshell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alicia is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joan Callem
The Gift (2015)
Performance score6.6
The Gift asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joan Callem 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 Natalie Gates
Start here. The Unholy is the clearest statement of what Katie Aselton does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Katie 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.
The Gift (2015)
Keeps the mystery register of The Unholy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bombshell (2019)
Keeps the drama register of The Gift but asks for a colder reading of it.
Synchronic (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Bombshell — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Magic Hour (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Synchronic — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jay Duplass
Director
1 film together
Notably Cyrus
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Idiot Brother
Joel Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gift
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sea of Trees
Alethea Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Fun Mom Dinner
Lawrence Sher
Director
1 film together
Notably Father Figures
Edward James Olmos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil Has a Name
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Amy Seimetz
Director
1 film together
Notably She Dies Tomorrow
Aaron Moorhead
Director
1 film together
Notably Synchronic
Tiller Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Silk Road
Bill Burr
Director
1 film together
Notably Old Dads
Katie Aselton
Director
1 film together
Notably Magic Hour
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellJoel Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GiftAaron Moorhead
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SynchronicBill Burr
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old DadsTiller Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silk RoadGus Van Sant
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 Sea of TreesJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Idiot BrotherJay Duplass
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CyrusLawrence Sher
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father FiguresAlethea Jones
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fun Mom DinnerEdward James Olmos
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil Has a NameAmy Seimetz
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She Dies TomorrowKatie Aselton
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Magic HourSix 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
Bombshell
as Alicia
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 Tomorrow Man
as Janet
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bombshell
as Alicia
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bombshell
as Alicia
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Unholy
as Natalie Gates
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. Katie Aselton 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
10 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
The Unholy
as Natalie Gates
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Unholy
as Natalie Gates
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Tomorrow Man
as Janet
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Gift
as Joan Callem
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bombshell
as Alicia
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bombshell
as Alicia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Book Club
as Adrianne
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Unholy
as Natalie Gates
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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