Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21216
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Anders Danielsen Lie 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.
Anders Danielsen Lie appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anders. Sentimental Value is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, music, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Charlie McDowell, Joachim Trier, Benoît Delhomme and others, Anders Danielsen Lie 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.
Sentimental Value (2025) as Jakob · The Worst Person in the World (2021) as Aksel · The Summer Book (2025) as Father
Career snapshot
Ranked #21216 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Sentimental Value
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Sentimental Value
Most frequent director
Joachim Trier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Joachim Trier
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Night Eats the World, 22 July, Personal Shopper — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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 Night Eats the World, 22 July, Personal Shopper.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.52 films | 4.810 films |
| Thriller | 6.43 films | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.32 films |
| Crime | 7.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.82 films |
| Horror | 6.11 film | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Personal Shopper
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Erwin.
Career peak
2021The Worst Person in the World
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Brave New Love
The current state of the argument, as Andreas.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Father
Directed by Charlie McDowell
as Anders Behring Breivik
Directed by Paul Greengrass
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
Aksel
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Aksel gives Anders Danielsen Lie a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Father
The Summer Book (2025)
Performance score7.6
The Summer Book asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jakob
Sentimental Value (2025)
Performance score7.6
Sentimental Value asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jakob is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anders Behring Breivik
22 July (2018)
Performance score7.5
22 July asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anders Behring Breivik 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 Aksel
Start here. The Worst Person in the World is the clearest statement of what Anders Danielsen Lie does — accessible, 128 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anders 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.
22 July (2018)
Keeps the drama register of The Worst Person in the World but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mothers' Instinct (2024)
Keeps the drama register of 22 July but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Summer Book (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Mothers' Instinct but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sentimental Value (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Summer Book but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joachim Trier
Director
2 films together
Notably Sentimental Value
Olivier Assayas
Director
1 film together
Notably Personal Shopper
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably 22 July
Kristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together
Notably Sick of Myself
Benoît Delhomme
Director
1 film together
Notably Mothers' Instinct
Charlie McDowell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Summer Book
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joachim Trier
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sentimental ValueCharlie McDowell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Summer BookKristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sick of MyselfPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
22 JulyBenoît Delhomme
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mothers' InstinctOlivier Assayas
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Personal ShopperSix 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
Sentimental Value
as Jakob
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bergman Island
as Joseph / Anders
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sentimental Value
as Jakob
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sick of Myself
as Doctor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Worst Person in the World
as Aksel
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. Anders Danielsen Lie 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 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
Sentimental Value
as Jakob
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
22 July
as Anders Behring Breivik
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bergman Island
as Joseph / Anders
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Personal Shopper
as Erwin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sentimental Value
as Jakob
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sick of Myself
as Doctor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Worst Person in the World
as Aksel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sentimental Value
as Jakob
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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