Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1667
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alice Eve 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.
Alice Eve appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alice. Star Trek Into Darkness 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, 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, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Foggin, Nick McKinless, Pierre Morel and others, Alice Eve 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.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as Dr. Carol Marcus · Hawking (2004) as Martha Guthrie · Bombshell (2019) as Ainsley Earhardt
Career snapshot
Ranked #1667 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Star Trek Into Darkness
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Star Trek Into Darkness
Most frequent director
Chris Foggin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Chris Foggin
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Crossing Over, Starter for 10, Hawking — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Crossing Over, Starter for 10, Hawking.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 6.53 films | 6.18 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.73 films | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.73 films | 6.14 films |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.08 films | 6.12 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 5.23 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.43 films | 5.81 film |
| Horror | — | — | 5.53 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Hawking
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Martha Guthrie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2026Chum
The current state of the argument, as Tina.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Audrey
Directed by Ben Lewin
as Brooke Dalton
Directed by Chris Evans
as Dr. Carol Marcus
Directed by J.J. Abrams
as Cassie Holt
Directed by Unknown
as Molly McCleish
Directed by Jim Field Smith
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
Audrey
Please Stand By (2018)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Audrey gives Alice Eve a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Brooke Dalton
Before We Go (2014)
Performance score7.2
Before We Go asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brooke Dalton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Carol Marcus
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Performance score7.2
Star Trek Into Darkness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Carol Marcus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cassie Holt
Cult Killer (2024)
Performance score7.1
Cult Killer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cassie Holt 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 Audrey
Start here. Please Stand By is the clearest statement of what Alice Eve does — accessible, 93 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alice 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.
She's Out of My League (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Please Stand By but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
A deliberate change of key after She's Out of My League — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Before We Go (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Star Trek Into Darkness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Cult Killer (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Before We Go — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Philip Martin
Director
1 film together
Notably Hawking
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Starter for 10
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Crossing Over
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Out of My League
Michael Patrick King
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex and the City 2
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Men in Black 3
Tze Chun
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Comes the Night
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek Into Darkness
Chris Evans
Director
1 film together
Notably Before We Go
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Shintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Misconduct
Ben Lewin
Director
1 film together
Notably Please Stand By
Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Replicas
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Pierre Morel
Director
1 film together
Notably Freelance
Nick McKinless
Director
1 film together
Notably Take Cover
Chris Foggin
Director
1 film together
Notably Tinsel Town
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek Into DarknessPhilip Martin
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HawkingJay 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
BombshellBen Lewin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Please Stand ByChris Evans
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before We GoBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men in Black 3Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Out of My LeaguePierre Morel
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreelanceTom 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 10Nick McKinless
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Take CoverShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Secret of the TombWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crossing OverJeffrey Nachmanoff
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ReplicasMichael Patrick King
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex and the City 2Chris Foggin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tinsel TownShintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MisconductTze Chun
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold Comes the NightSix 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
Star Trek Into Darkness
as Dr. Carol Marcus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Before We Go
as Brooke Dalton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Trek Into Darkness
as Dr. Carol Marcus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bombshell
as Ainsley Earhardt
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Please Stand By
as Audrey
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. Alice Eve 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
22 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Star Trek Into Darkness
as Dr. Carol Marcus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Cult Killer
as Cassie Holt
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Before We Go
as Brooke Dalton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Infernal Machine
as Officer Higgins
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Trek Into Darkness
as Dr. Carol Marcus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Trek Into Darkness
as Dr. Carol Marcus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sex and the City 2
as Erin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Infernal Machine
as Officer Higgins
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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