Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10575
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Aisling Franciosi 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.
Aisling Franciosi appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aisling. The Unforgivable is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 thriller, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Watkins, André Øvredal, Saela Davis and others, Aisling Franciosi 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 Unforgivable (2021) as Katherine Malcolm · Speak No Evil (2024) as Ciara · Twinless (2025) as Marcie
Career snapshot
Ranked #10575 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Unforgivable
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Unforgivable
Most frequent director
James Watkins
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James Watkins
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.3
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Nightingale — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. The Nightingale.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 6.91 film | 6.74 films |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.72 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.91 film |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film |
| Horror | — | 6.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2018The Nightingale
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Clare. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021The Unforgivable
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Pose
The current state of the argument, as Patricia.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Clare
Directed by Jennifer Kent
as Ciara
Directed by James Watkins
as Katherine Malcolm
Directed by Unknown
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
Clare
The Nightingale (2018)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Clare gives Aisling Franciosi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marcie
Twinless (2025)
Performance score7.3
Twinless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marcie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ciara
Speak No Evil (2024)
Performance score7.2
Speak No Evil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ciara is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anna
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Performance score7.2
The Last Voyage of the Demeter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna 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 Clare
Start here. The Nightingale is the clearest statement of what Aisling Franciosi does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aisling 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 Unforgivable (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Nightingale but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Unforgivable — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Speak No Evil (2024)
Keeps the horror register of The Last Voyage of the Demeter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Twinless (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Speak No Evil — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jennifer Kent
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nightingale
Franka Potente
Director
1 film together
Notably Home
Saela Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably God's Creatures
André Øvredal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Voyage of the Demeter
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Speak No Evil
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Watkins
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Speak No EvilJennifer Kent
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The NightingaleAndré Øvredal
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Voyage of the DemeterFranka Potente
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HomeSaela Davis
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
God's CreaturesSix 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 Unforgivable
as Katherine Malcolm
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Home
as Delta
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 Unforgivable
as Katherine Malcolm
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Unforgivable
as Katherine Malcolm
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Nightingale
as Clare
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. Aisling Franciosi 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
5 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 Unforgivable
as Katherine Malcolm
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Speak No Evil
as Ciara
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
God's Creatures
as Sarah Murphy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
as Anna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Nightingale
as Clare
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Nightingale
as Clare
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Unforgivable
as Katherine Malcolm
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pose
as Patricia
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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