Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Anne Hathaway represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Anne is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anne Hathaway appears in 52 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anne. Emotional exposure at full volume, held exactly as long as the scene can take it. Interstellar is the clearest case: a film rated 9.4 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 adventure, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, David Frankel, David Lowery and others, Anne Hathaway helped set a standard other performers now audition against. 1 Academy Award confirm what the films already argue.
Interstellar (2014) as Brand · Covidwood (2021) as Self · The Odyssey (2026) as Penelope
Career snapshot
Ranked #9 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
52
2001–2026
Career length
27 yrs
Active since 1999
Academy Awards
1
Competitive wins
Oscar nominations
2
Career total
Highest Nutevio score
9.4
Interstellar
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Covidwood
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
2
Career total
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.6
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dark Waters, Serenity, Ocean's Eight — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 18 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Dark Waters, Serenity, Ocean's Eight.
Most productive era
2020s
21 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 | 6.88 films | 7.310 films | 6.68 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 7.33 films | 8.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.22 films | 7.03 films | 4.96 films |
| Comedy | 6.77 films | 6.77 films | 5.46 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.41 film | — |
| Crime | 5.82 films | 7.52 films | 5.52 films |
| Romance | 6.87 films | 6.83 films | 6.23 films |
| Horror | — | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
Career begins
1999Working from 1999
The start of the professional record — years before the catalogue picks the story up.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mia Thermopolis.
First Academy Award nomination
2009Rachel Getting Married
Best Actress — the moment the industry started writing the same sentences our editors had been writing.
First Academy Award
2013Les Misérables
Best Supporting Actress. Confirmation rather than revelation, which is how the best of these usually arrive.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Interstellar
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Denise Platt.
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.
52 of 52 films
as Brand
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Penelope
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Brand
Directed by Christopher Nolan
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 57 titles · 64 total credits · active 1984–2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 · Andy
Mother Mary
2026 · Mother Mary
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere
2026 · Self
Verity
2026 · Verity Crawford · Producer
The Odyssey: The Making of an Epic
2026 · Self - "Penelope"
The Odyssey
2026 · Penelope
The End of Oak Street
2026 · Denise Platt
The Idea of You
2024 · Solène · Producer
Mothers' Instinct
2024 · Celine · Producer
Eileen
2023 · Rebecca
She Came to Me
2023 · Patricia Jessup-Lauddem · Producer
Armageddon Time
2022 · Esther Graff
WeCrashed
2022 · TV · Rebekah Neumann · Executive Producer
StoryBots: Answer Time
2022 · TV · Secret Agent
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale
2021 · Self
Locked Down
2021 · Linda
Covidwood
2021 · Self
Solos
2021 · TV · Leah
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020 · Self
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Grand High Witch
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020 · Elena McMahon
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
2020 · Self
The Postal Service Zoom Auditions
2020 · Self
Dark Waters
2019 · Sarah Bilott
The defining work
#1
Brand
Interstellar (2014)
Performance score9.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Brand gives Anne Hathaway a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Covidwood (2021)
Performance score9.1
Covidwood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Penelope
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score9.0
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Penelope is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Brand
Interstellar (2014)
Performance score8.9
Interstellar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brand 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 Brand
Start here. Interstellar is the clearest statement of what Anne Hathaway does — accessible, 169 minutes, and rated 9.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anne 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.
Interstellar (2014)
Same director as Interstellar, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Covidwood (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Interstellar — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
Same director as Covidwood, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Odyssey (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
5 films together
Notably Interstellar
Garry Marshall
Director
3 films together
Notably The Princess Diaries
Carlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together
Notably Rio
Michael Showalter
Director
2 films together
Notably The Idea of You
David Frankel
Director
2 films together
Notably The Devil Wears Prada
Matt Damon
Actor
2 films together
Notably Interstellar
Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably Nicholas Nickleby
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably Ella Enchanted
Barbara Kopple
Director
1 film together
Notably Havoc
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Brokeback Mountain
Julian Jarrold
Director
1 film together
Notably Becoming Jane
Rodrigo García
Director
1 film together
Notably Passengers
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Smart
Jonathan Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Rachel Getting Married
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Love & Other Drugs
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland
Peter Shin
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably One Day
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Intern
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Nacho Vigalondo
Director
1 film together
Notably Colossal
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Ocean's Eight
Steven Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Serenity
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Waters
Tom Scharpling
Director
1 film together
Notably The Postal Service Zoom Auditions
Matt Vogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
Dee Rees
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Thing He Wanted
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Roald Dahl's The Witches
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Locked Down
Rebecca Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably She Came to Me
William Oldroyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Eileen
Benoît Delhomme
Director
1 film together
Notably Mothers' Instinct
David Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The End of Oak Street
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably Mother Mary
Matthew McConaughey
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Jessica Chastain
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Wes Bentley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Topher Grace
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Mackenzie Foy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Ellen Burstyn
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
John Lithgow
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Bill Irwin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
David Gyasi
Actor
1 film together
Notably Interstellar
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
5 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InterstellarGarry Marshall
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Princess DiariesDavid Frankel
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
The Devil Wears PradaCarlos Saldanha
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RioMichael Showalter
Director
2 films together · 3.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Idea of YouAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brokeback MountainTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WatersLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One DayTom 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 MisérablesJulian Jarrold
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Becoming JaneNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ocean's EightEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love & Other DrugsDouglas McGrath
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nicholas NicklebyBenoît 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' InstinctPeter Shin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!James Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice Through the Looking GlassTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in WonderlandTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ella EnchantedDavid Robert Mitchell
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 End of Oak StreetRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Roald Dahl's The WitchesNacho Vigalondo
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ColossalJonathan Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rachel Getting MarriedPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SmartRebecca Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She Came to MeRodrigo García
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PassengersWilliam Oldroyd
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EileenDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mother MarySteven Knight
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SerenityBarbara Kopple
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HavocDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Locked DownMatt Vogel
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sesame Street: Elmo's PlaydateDee Rees
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Thing He WantedTom Scharpling
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Postal Service Zoom AuditionsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
9 wins · 3 nominations
2 wins · 3 nominations · latest 2015
Interstellar
Les Misérables · as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
Rachel Getting Married · as Actor
1 win · latest 2013
as Actor
2 wins · latest 2013
as Actor
Les Misérables · as Actor
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Interstellar
as Brand
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 Odyssey
as Penelope
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Interstellar
as Brand
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!
as Hot Blonde (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Interstellar
as Brand
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. Anne Hathaway has known it for a long time.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
“Murph, I'm coming back.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.4 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #38 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | 3 recorded | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | 1 | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | 2 | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Physical performance | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2014–2026 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Brand — Interstellar | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Interstellar | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 2 catalogue films | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Interstellar
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Drama Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Best Time Travel Movies, Sci-Fi Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Matt Damon · Matthew McConaughey · Jessica Chastain · Casey Affleck · Wes Bentley · Topher Grace · Mackenzie Foy
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
26 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
Interstellar
as Brand
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Interstellar
as Brand
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Odyssey
as Penelope
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The End of Oak Street
as Denise Platt
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Interstellar
as Brand
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Penelope
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Idea of You
as Solène
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Interstellar
as Brand
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 10 Nutevio collections
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Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies
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Best Time Travel Movies
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