Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#994
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nina Dobrev 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.
Nina Dobrev appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nina. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Derrick Borte, Tyler Spindel, Renny Harlin and others, Nina Dobrev 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.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) as Candace · Redeeming Love (2022) as Mae · Then Came You (2018) as Izzy
Career snapshot
Ranked #994 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Redeeming Love
Most frequent director
Derrick Borte
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Derrick Borte
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Merry Madagascar, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Away from Her — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Merry Madagascar, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Away from Her.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.55 films | 3.83 films |
| Action | — | 5.32 films | 6.13 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.65 films | 6.22 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.55 films | 5.94 films |
| Crime | — | 5.41 film | — |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.61 film | 6.83 films |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 5.83 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Away from Her
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Monica.
Highest rated performance
2012The Perks of Being a Wallflower
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2018Then Came You
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Get Out
The current state of the argument, as Carrie.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Izzy
Directed by Unknown
as Mae
Directed by D.J. Caruso
as Elizabeth
Directed by Ken Marino
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Izzy
Then Came You (2018)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Izzy gives Nina Dobrev a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mae
Redeeming Love (2022)
Performance score7.6
Redeeming Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mae is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Candace
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Performance score7.6
The Perks of Being a Wallflower asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Candace is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Natalie Bauer
Love Hard (2021)
Performance score7.5
Love Hard asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Natalie Bauer 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 Izzy
Start here. Then Came You is the clearest statement of what Nina Dobrev does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nina 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Then Came You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dog Days (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Perks of Being a Wallflower — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love Hard (2021)
Keeps the romance register of Dog Days but asks for a colder reading of it.
Redeeming Love (2022)
Keeps the romance register of Love Hard but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sarah Polley
Director
1 film together
Notably Away from Her
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together
Notably Repo! The Genetic Opera
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Chloe
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Todd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Final Girls
Kevin Tent
Director
1 film together
Notably Crash Pad
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Flatliners
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Days
Ricky Tollman
Director
1 film together
Notably Run This Town
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably Redeeming Love
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bricklayer
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Out-Laws
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Get Out
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perks of Being a WallflowerD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Redeeming LoveSarah Polley
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Away from HerKen Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog DaysDerrick Borte
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 Get OutTodd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Final GirlsDarren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Repo! The Genetic OperaAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChloeTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Out-LawsRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BricklayerNiels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlatlinersKevin Tent
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crash PadRicky Tollman
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Run This TownSix 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
Redeeming Love
as Mae
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Away from Her
as Monica
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
as Candace
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Repo! The Genetic Opera
as Teenage Zydrate Addict (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Then Came You
as Izzy
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. Nina Dobrev 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
9 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower
as Candace
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Get Out
as Carrie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Away from Her
as Monica
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chloe
as Anna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
as Candace
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Bricklayer
as Kate
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Away from Her
as Monica
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Get Out
as Carrie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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