Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#36717
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Antonia Desplat 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.
Antonia Desplat appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Antonia. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 comedy, adventure, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Wes Anderson, Chuck Russell, J.J. Perry and others, Antonia Desplat 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) as Junkie / Showgirl #2 · Operation Finale (2018) as Dvora · The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as 2nd Wife
Career snapshot
Ranked #36717 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Comedy
3 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
6.2
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Operation Finale — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Operation Finale.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 6.71 film | 6.62 films |
| Action | — | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.63 films |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Operation Finale
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dvora.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
7.0 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
2025Witchboard
The current state of the argument, as Naga Soth.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Beatrice Hastings
Directed by Johnny Depp
as Dvora
Directed by Chris Weitz
as 2nd Wife
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Naga Soth
Directed by Chuck Russell
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
Junkie / Showgirl #2
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Junkie / Showgirl #2 gives Antonia Desplat a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Beatrice Hastings
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024)
Performance score6.7
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beatrice Hastings is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dvora
Operation Finale (2018)
Performance score6.6
Operation Finale asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dvora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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2nd Wife
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
Performance score6.5
The Phoenician Scheme asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 2nd Wife 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 Junkie / Showgirl #2
Start here. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is the clearest statement of what Antonia Desplat does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Antonia 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.
Operation Finale (2018)
Keeps the drama register of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Operation Finale but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Witchboard (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Phoenician Scheme — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together
Notably The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Operation Finale
Johnny Depp
Director
1 film together
Notably Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
J.J. Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Killer's Game
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Witchboard
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Operation FinaleJ.J. Perry
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 Killer's GameJohnny Depp
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of MadnessChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WitchboardSix 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
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Operation Finale
as Dvora
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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
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. Antonia Desplat 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in comedy, 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Junkie / Showgirl #2
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Killer's Game
as Aimee
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Operation Finale
as Dvora
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Operation Finale
as Dvora
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Killer's Game
as Aimee
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Killer's Game
as Aimee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
as Beatrice Hastings
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Operation Finale
as Dvora
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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