Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#305
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ali Larter represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Ali is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ali Larter appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ali. You're Not You is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 horror, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul W. S. Anderson, Steve Shill, Russell Mulcahy and others, Ali Larter 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.
You're Not You (2014) as Keely · A Lot Like Love (2005) as Gina · Legally Blonde (2001) as Brooke Taylor Windham
Career snapshot
Ranked #305 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1999–2024
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
You're Not You
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
You're Not You
Most frequent director
Paul W. S. Anderson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Paul W. S. Anderson
Most common genre
Horror
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Obsessed, Resident Evil: Extinction, A Lot Like Love — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Drive Me Crazy, House on Haunted Hill, Varsity Blues.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 6.32 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.23 films | 6.12 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | 5.01 film | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.73 films | — | 4.51 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Horror | 5.61 film | 6.43 films | 5.73 films | 5.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Drive Me Crazy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dulcie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014You're Not You
7.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Helen Williams.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Gina
Directed by Nigel Cole
as Clear Rivers
Directed by David R. Ellis
as Claire
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
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
Keely
You're Not You (2014)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Keely gives Ali Larter a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gina
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Performance score7.0
A Lot Like Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gina is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clear Rivers
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Performance score7.0
Final Destination 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clear Rivers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clear Rivers
Final Destination (2000)
Performance score7.0
Final Destination asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clear Rivers 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 Keely
Start here. You're Not You is the clearest statement of what Ali Larter does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ali 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.
Final Destination (2000)
A deliberate change of key after You're Not You — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Keeps the horror register of Final Destination but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Lot Like Love (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Final Destination 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
A deliberate change of key after A Lot Like Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
2 films together
Notably Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably Varsity Blues
William Malone
Director
1 film together
Notably House on Haunted Hill
James Wong
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Legally Blonde
Les Mayfield
Director
1 film together
Notably American Outlaws
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
David R. Ellis
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination 2
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably A Lot Like Love
Russell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil: Extinction
Steve Shill
Director
1 film together
Notably Obsessed
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Resident Evil: The Final ChapterNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Lot Like LoveRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legally BlondeJames Wong
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final DestinationKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jay and Silent Bob Strike BackRussell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident Evil: ExtinctionDavid R. Ellis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final Destination 2Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Varsity BluesLes Mayfield
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American OutlawsSteve Shill
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ObsessedWilliam Malone
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House on Haunted HillSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win · 3 nominations
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 2 nominations
as Actor
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
You're Not You
as Keely
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Lot Like Love
as Gina
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
You're Not You
as Keely
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You're Not You
as Keely
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You're Not You
as Keely
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. Ali Larter 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in horror, 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
You're Not You
as Keely
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Final Destination 2
as Clear Rivers
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Lot Like Love
as Gina
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Final Destination 2
as Clear Rivers
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
as Chrissy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Resident Evil: Afterlife
as Claire Redfield
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Lot Like Love
as Gina
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spin the Bottle
as Maura Randell
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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