Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2522
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rebecca Hall 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.
Rebecca Hall appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rebecca. The Prestige is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Wingard, James L. Brooks, Max Minghella and others, Rebecca Hall 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 Prestige (2006) as Sarah · The Prestige (2006) as Sarah · Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) as Ilene Andrews
Career snapshot
Ranked #2522 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2006–2027
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Prestige
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
The Prestige
Most frequent director
Adam Wingard
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Adam Wingard
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.6
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
7.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Dorian Gray, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, Vicky Cristina Barcelona — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.1
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. Dorian Gray, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.27 films | 6.26 films | 4.24 films |
| Action | — | 6.91 film | 4.93 films |
| Thriller | 7.23 films | 6.73 films | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 5.54 films | 5.51 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 5.82 films | — |
| Romance | 6.62 films | 5.93 films | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | — | 3.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006The Prestige
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sarah. The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2027The Man I Love
The current state of the argument, as Brenda.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Sarah
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Sarah
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Ilene Andrews
Directed by Adam Wingard
as Ilene Andrews
Directed by Adam Wingard
as Claire Keesey
Directed by Ben Affleck
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 31 titles · 36 total credits · active 2006–2027
The Man I Love
2027 · Brenda
Onslaught
2026 · Actor
The Beauty
2026 · TV · Jordan Bennett
The Beauty: Official Podcast
2026 · TV · Self
Ella McCay
2025 · Claire McCay
Peter Hujar's Day
2025 · Linda Rosenkrantz · Executive Producer
The Studio
2025 · TV · Dr. Sarah Cohen
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024 · Ilene Andrews
The Listeners
2024 · TV · Claire
Resurrection
2022 · Margaret · Executive Producer
Godzilla vs. Kong
2021 · Ilene Andrews
Passing
2021 · Director · Writer · Producer
Tales from the Loop
2020 · TV · Loretta
Teen Spirit
2019 · Jules
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Connie
Holmes & Watson
2018 · Grace Hart
Permission
2018 · Anna · Producer
The BFG
2016 · Mary
High Maintenance
2016 · TV · Rebecca Hall
Horace and Pete
2016 · TV · Rachel
The Gift
2015 · Robyn Callem
Transcendence
2014 · Evelyn Caster
Iron Man 3
2013 · Maya Hansen
Everything Must Go
2011 · Samantha
The defining work
#1
Sarah
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sarah gives Rebecca Hall a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sarah
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score8.4
The Prestige asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sarah is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ilene Andrews
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Performance score7.8
Godzilla vs. Kong asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ilene Andrews is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ilene Andrews
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Performance score7.7
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ilene Andrews 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 Sarah
Start here. The Prestige is the clearest statement of what Rebecca Hall does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rebecca 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 Prestige (2006)
Same director as The Prestige, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Town (2010)
Keeps the drama register of The Prestige but asks for a colder reading of it.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Town — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Same director as Godzilla vs. Kong, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Adam Wingard
Director
3 films together
Notably Godzilla vs. Kong
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Prestige
Woody Allen
Director
2 films together
Notably Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Starter for 10
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Frost/Nixon
Julian Jarrold
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably Dorian Gray
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably The Town
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Iron Man 3
Wally Pfister
Director
1 film together
Notably Transcendence
Joel Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gift
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The BFG
Etan Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Holmes & Watson
Max Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Spirit
James L. Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably Ella McCay
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Hugh Jackman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christian Bale
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Piper Perabo
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Scarlett Johansson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Samantha Mahurin
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
David Bowie
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Andy Serkis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Daniel Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Jim Piddock
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christopher Neame
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Mark Ryan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Adam Wingard
Director
3 films together · 4.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Godzilla vs. KongChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The PrestigeWoody Allen
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Vicky Cristina BarcelonaRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frost/NixonBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TownShane Black
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Iron Man 3Joel 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 GiftJulian Jarrold
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starter for 10Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BFGWally Pfister
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TranscendenceOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dorian GrayMax Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen SpiritJames L. Brooks
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ella McCayEtan Cohen
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holmes & WatsonSix 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
The Prestige
as Sarah
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Frost/Nixon
as Caroline Cushing
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 Prestige
as Sarah
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as Paula Garland
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Prestige
as Sarah
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. Rebecca Hall has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #186 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Screen presence, Emotional range | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2006–2006 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Sarah — The Prestige | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Prestige | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Michael Caine
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
17 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 Prestige
as Sarah
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Prestige
as Sarah
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Teen Spirit
as Jules
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
as Paula Garland
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Prestige
as Sarah
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Iron Man 3
as Maya Hansen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Town
as Claire Keesey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Prestige
as Sarah
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
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