Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1014
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Annabelle Wallis 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.
Annabelle Wallis appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Annabelle. X-Men: First Class 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 action, science fiction, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Timur Bekmambetov, Janus Metz, Renato De Maria and others, Annabelle Wallis 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.
X-Men: First Class (2011) as Co-Ed · Mercy (2026) as Nicole Raven · Boss Level (2021) as Alice
Career snapshot
Ranked #1014 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
X-Men: First Class
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
X-Men: First Class
Most frequent director
Timur Bekmambetov
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Timur Bekmambetov
Most common genre
Action
10 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
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
6.2
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. Body of Lies — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film 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. Body of Lies.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.23 films | 5.61 film |
| Action | 6.61 film | 6.45 films | 5.14 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 5.93 films | 4.36 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.32 films | 5.91 film |
| Crime | — | — | 3.22 films |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.03 films | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Body of Lies
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hani's Girlfriend in Bar.
Highest rated performance
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Malignant
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Mutiny
The current state of the argument.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Co-Ed
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as Alice
Directed by Joe Carnahan
as Nicole Raven
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
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
Madison Mitchell
Malignant (2021)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madison Mitchell gives Annabelle Wallis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Co-Ed
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Performance score7.2
X-Men: First Class asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Co-Ed is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alice
Boss Level (2021)
Performance score7.1
Boss Level asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nicole Raven
Mercy (2026)
Performance score7.0
Mercy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nicole Raven 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 Madison Mitchell
Start here. Malignant is the clearest statement of what Annabelle Wallis does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Annabelle 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.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Malignant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mine (2016)
A deliberate change of key after X-Men: First Class — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Boss Level (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of Mine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mercy (2026)
Keeps the action register of Boss Level but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Body of Lies
Mikael Salomon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost Future
Madonna
Director
1 film together
Notably W.E.
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
John R. Leonetti
Director
1 film together
Notably Annabelle
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Grimsby
Zack Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Come and Find Me
Alex Kurtzman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mummy
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Robin Pront
Director
1 film together
Notably The Silencing
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Malignant
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Boss Level
Renato De Maria
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanished into the Night
Janus Metz
Director
1 film together
Notably Unabomber
Timur Bekmambetov
Director
1 film together
Notably Mercy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassTimur Bekmambetov
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MercyJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boss LevelJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MalignantJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King Arthur: Legend of the SwordRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Body of LiesRobin Pront
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SilencingMadonna
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.Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GrimsbyJohn R. Leonetti
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnabelleRenato De Maria
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vanished into the NightZack Whedon
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come and Find MeAlex Kurtzman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MummyMikael Salomon
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lost FutureJanus Metz
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnabomberSix 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
X-Men: First Class
as Co-Ed
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 Arabella Green
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: First Class
as Co-Ed
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men: First Class
as Co-Ed
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Malignant
as Madison Mitchell
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. Annabelle Wallis 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in action, 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
Malignant
as Madison Mitchell
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mercy
as Nicole Raven
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
W.E.
as Arabella Green
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vanished into the Night
as Elena
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: First Class
as Co-Ed
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Mummy
as Jennifer Halsey
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
W.E.
as Arabella Green
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Vanished into the Night
as Elena
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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