Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2246
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andrea Riseborough 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.
Andrea Riseborough appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrea. Nocturnal Animals is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 mystery, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jan Komasa, Ti West, Kate Winslet and others, Andrea Riseborough 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.
Nocturnal Animals (2016) as Alessia · Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) as Laura · Disconnect (2013) as Nina Dunham
Career snapshot
Ranked #2246 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Nocturnal Animals
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Most frequent director
Jan Komasa
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jan Komasa
Most common genre
Drama
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Happy-Go-Lucky, Venus — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Happy-Go-Lucky, Venus.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 6.99 films | 5.99 films |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.94 films | 6.63 films |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.85 films | 4.94 films |
| Crime | — | 5.91 film | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.62 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.23 films | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Venus
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Period Film Lover.
Highest rated performance
2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022To Leslie
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Ebenezer
The current state of the argument, as Ghost of Christmas Past.
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.
29 of 29 films
as Claire
Directed by Matt Duffer
as Kathryn
Directed by Jan Komasa
as Caroline Wain
Directed by Will Sharpe
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Leslie
To Leslie (2022)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Leslie gives Andrea Riseborough a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Laura
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Performance score7.5
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laura is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claire
Hidden (2015)
Performance score7.4
Hidden asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kathryn
Good Boy (2026)
Performance score7.3
Good Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kathryn 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 Leslie
Start here. To Leslie is the clearest statement of what Andrea Riseborough does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrea 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.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Keeps the drama register of To Leslie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hidden (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Hidden — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Good Boy (2026)
Keeps the drama register of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Venus
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably Made in Dagenham
Mark Romanek
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Let Me Go
Madonna
Director
1 film together
Notably W.E.
James Marsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Shadow Dancer
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Oblivion
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to the Punch
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together
Notably Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Matt Duffer
Director
1 film together
Notably Hidden
Tom Ford
Director
1 film together
Notably Nocturnal Animals
Armando Iannucci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Stalin
Jonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle of the Sexes
Panos Cosmatos
Director
1 film together
Notably Mandy
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kindness of Strangers
Brandon Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Possessor
Will Sharpe
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Michael Morris
Director
1 film together
Notably To Leslie
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Amsterdam
Ellen Kuras
Director
1 film together
Notably Lee
Paul Andrew Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragonfly
Kate Winslet
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye June
Ti West
Director
1 film together
Notably Ebenezer
Jan Komasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Boy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tom Ford
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nocturnal AnimalsAlejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Ellen Kuras
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeeMichael Morris
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To LeslieArmando Iannucci
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of StalinMatt Duffer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HiddenJan Komasa
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good BoyWill Sharpe
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Electrical Life of Louis WainMark Romanek
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Let Me GoJonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle of the SexesJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OblivionNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Made in DagenhamKate Winslet
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye JuneRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VenusPaul Andrew Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DragonflyBrandon Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PossessorLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kindness of StrangersMadonna
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
W.E.Panos Cosmatos
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MandyDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmsterdamJames Marsh
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shadow DancerEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to the PunchTi West
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EbenezerSix 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
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Laura
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
W.E.
as Wallis Simpson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Laura
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Venus
as Period Film Lover
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
To Leslie
as Leslie
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. Andrea Riseborough 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
20 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
20 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
Good Boy
as Kathryn
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hidden
as Claire
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Please Baby Please
as Suze
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Good Boy
as Kathryn
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oblivion
as Victoria
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Welcome to the Punch
as Sarah Hawks
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Death of Stalin
as Svetlana Stalin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Never Let Me Go
as Chrissie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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