Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#63835
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Alice Pagani works on quiet performance 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 Pagani appears in 3 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alice. Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow is the clearest case: a film rated 5.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, intensity, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrea De Sica, George Gallo, Alice Pagani 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.
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow (2026) as Stella Gulmar · The Poison Rose (2019) as Violet Gregory · Don't Kill Me (2021) as Mirta
Career snapshot
Ranked #63835 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
3
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
5.1
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
Average Nutevio score
4.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
5.1
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
Most frequent director
Andrea De Sica
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Andrea De Sica
Most common genre
Mystery
1 title
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.1
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
2020s
4.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow, Don't Kill Me — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
4.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
4.8
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 Poison Rose.
Most productive era
2020s
2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thriller | 4.71 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 5.11 film |
| Crime | 4.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | 4.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2019The Poison Rose
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Violet Gregory. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
5.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Stella Gulmar.
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.
3 of 3 films
as Mirta
Directed by Andrea De Sica
as Violet Gregory
Directed by George Gallo
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
Stella Gulmar
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow (2026)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stella Gulmar gives Alice Pagani a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mirta
Don't Kill Me (2021)
Performance score6.5
Don't Kill Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mirta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Violet Gregory
The Poison Rose (2019)
Performance score6.5
The Poison Rose asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Violet Gregory 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 Stella Gulmar
Start here. Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow is the clearest statement of what Alice Pagani does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 5.1 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.
The Poison Rose (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Don't Kill Me (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Poison Rose — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Gallo
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Poison RoseAndrea De Sica
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Kill MeSix 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
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
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 Pagani 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.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Poison Rose
as Violet Gregory
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Agata Christian: Murder on the Snow
as Stella Gulmar
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Don't Kill Me
as Mirta
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Poison Rose
as Violet Gregory
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Don't Kill Me
as Mirta
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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