Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#210
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Amanda Seyfried 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.
Amanda Seyfried appears in 40 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Amanda. The Art of Racing in the Rain is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 fantasy, music, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mona Fastvold, Paul Feig, Atom Egoyan and others, Amanda Seyfried 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 Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) as Avery "Eve" Swift · Roll Up Your Sleeves (2021) as Self · The Housemaid (2025) as Nina Winchester
Career snapshot
Ranked #210 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
40
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Most frequent director
Mona Fastvold
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Mona Fastvold
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
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
7.0
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Jennifer's Body, Mamma Mia!, Solstice — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Jennifer's Body, Mamma Mia!, Solstice.
Most productive era
2010s
22 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 | 6.711 films | 6.35 films |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.35 films | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | 6.210 films | 4.23 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 7.05 films | — |
| Horror | 5.72 films | 6.01 film | 5.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Mean Girls
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Karen Smith.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019The Art of Racing in the Rain
7.9 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
2026Steps
The current state of the argument, as Cinderella (voice).
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.
40 of 40 films
as Avery "Eve" Swift
Directed by Simon Curtis
as Nina Winchester
Directed by Paul Feig
as Cosette
Directed by Tom Hooper
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
Avery "Eve" Swift
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Avery "Eve" Swift gives Amanda Seyfried a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nina Winchester
The Housemaid (2025)
Performance score7.7
The Housemaid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nina Winchester is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sophie
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Performance score7.7
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sophie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Katie Davis
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
Performance score7.7
Fathers and Daughters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katie Davis 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 Avery "Eve" Swift
Start here. The Art of Racing in the Rain is the clearest statement of what Amanda Seyfried does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Amanda 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.
Les Misérables (2012)
Keeps the drama register of The Art of Racing in the Rain but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Fathers and Daughters — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Housemaid (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Seth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together
Notably Ted 2
Andrew Niccol
Director
2 films together
Notably In Time
Atom Egoyan
Director
2 films together
Notably Chloe
Mona Fastvold
Director
2 films together
Notably The Testament of Ann Lee
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Mean Girls
Nick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together
Notably Alpha Dog
Daniel Myrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Solstice
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Dear John
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Riding Hood
Heitor Dhalia
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Gabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together
Notably Fathers and Daughters
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably While We're Young
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Pan
Jessie Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Love the Coopers
Mark Pellington
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Word
Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably First Reformed
Nash Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably Gringo
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Art of Racing in the Rain
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Mank
David Koepp
Director
1 film together
Notably You Should Have Left
Tony Cervone
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoob!
Samantha Soule
Director
1 film together
Notably Birdwatching
Shari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together
Notably Things Heard & Seen
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Housemaid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrew Niccol
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
In TimeMona Fastvold
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
The Testament of Ann LeeSeth MacFarlane
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ted 2Atom Egoyan
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ChloeSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Art of Racing in the RainPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HousemaidMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mean GirlsTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesGabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fathers and DaughtersTony Cervone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scoob!Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First ReformedLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dear JohnDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MankNick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alpha DogMark Pellington
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last WordChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicHeitor Dhalia
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoneDavid Koepp
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Should Have LeftSamantha Soule
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BirdwatchingJessie Nelson
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love the CoopersJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PanNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
While We're YoungCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red Riding HoodKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodyNash Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GringoShari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Things Heard & SeenDaniel Myrick
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SolsticeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
3 wins · 2 nominations
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
1 win · latest 2023
as Actor
1 win · latest 2023
as Actor
1 win · latest 2022
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Art of Racing in the Rain
as Avery "Eve" Swift
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 Racing in the Rain
as Avery "Eve" Swift
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 Art of Racing in the Rain
as Avery "Eve" Swift
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Roll Up Your Sleeves
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Art of Racing in the Rain
as Avery "Eve" Swift
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. Amanda Seyfried 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
19 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 Housemaid
as Nina Winchester
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Housemaid
as Nina Winchester
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Testament of Ann Lee
as Ann Lee
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Housemaid
as Nina Winchester
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
In Time
as Sylvia Weis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pan
as Mary
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Letters to Juliet
as Sophie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mean Girls
as Karen Smith
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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