Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4171
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alicia Silverstone represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Alicia is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alicia Silverstone appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alicia. Bugonia 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 romance, comedy, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Mooney, Alex Hardcastle, Severin Fiala and others, Alicia Silverstone 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.
Bugonia (2025) as Sandy · Clueless (1995) as Cher · In the Time It Takes to Get There (2019) as Eliza
Career snapshot
Ranked #4171 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
1995–2025
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Bugonia
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Bugonia
Most frequent director
Amy Heckerling
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Amy Heckerling
Most common genre
Comedy
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.4
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. In the Time It Takes to Get There, Book Club, The Killing of a Sacred Deer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Blast from the Past, Batman & Robin, Excess Baggage.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 6.81 film | — | 6.63 films | 5.54 films |
| Action | 5.42 films | 6.02 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.01 film | 5.95 films |
| Comedy | 6.73 films | 6.43 films | 6.14 films | 5.710 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | — | — | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 7.02 films | 6.31 film | 6.03 films | 5.73 films |
| Horror | — | — | 5.31 film | 5.15 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Clueless
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cher. 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
2025Pretty Thing
The current state of the argument, as Sophie.
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.
30 of 30 films
as Cher
Directed by Amy Heckerling
as Sissy-Chrissy (voice)
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
Cher
Clueless (1995)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Cher gives Alicia Silverstone a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Eliza
In the Time It Takes to Get There (2019)
Performance score7.5
In the Time It Takes to Get There asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eliza is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sandy
Bugonia (2025)
Performance score7.4
Bugonia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sandy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eve
Blast from the Past (1999)
Performance score7.2
Blast from the Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eve 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 Cher
Start here. Clueless is the clearest statement of what Alicia Silverstone does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alicia 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.
Blast from the Past (1999)
Keeps the romance register of Clueless but asks for a colder reading of it.
In the Time It Takes to Get There (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Blast from the Past but asks for a colder reading of it.
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of In the Time It Takes to Get There but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bugonia (2025)
Same director as Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue, 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.
Amy Heckerling
Director
2 films together
Notably Clueless
Marco Brambilla
Director
1 film together
Notably Excess Baggage
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman & Robin
Hugh Wilson
Director
1 film together
Notably Blast from the Past
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Bille Woodruff
Director
1 film together
Notably Beauty Shop
Geoffrey Sax
Director
1 film together
Notably Stormbreaker
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Tropic Thunder
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Butter
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Time It Takes to Get There
William Teitler
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Therapy
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Valley Girl
Severin Fiala
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lodge
Alex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together
Notably Senior Year
Kyle Mooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Y2K
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Amy Heckerling
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CluelessZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Time It Takes to Get ThereHugh Wilson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blast from the PastBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tropic ThunderBille Woodruff
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beauty ShopSeverin Fiala
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LodgeRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters UnleashedMarco Brambilla
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Excess BaggageAlex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Senior YearJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ButterRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valley GirlGeoffrey Sax
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StormbreakerKyle Mooney
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Y2KJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman & RobinWilliam Teitler
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TherapySix 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
Bugonia
as Sandy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Art of Getting By
as Ms. Herman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Clueless
as Cher
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Valley Girl
as Older Julie (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Clueless
as Cher
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. Alicia Silverstone 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
30 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
20 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
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Martin's Mother
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Martin's Mother
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Art of Getting By
as Ms. Herman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Martin's Mother
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Clueless
as Cher
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stormbreaker
as Jack Starbright
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Book Club
as Jill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman & Robin
as Batgirl / Barbara Wilson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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