Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2373
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ariana Greenblatt 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.
Ariana Greenblatt appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ariana. iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 crime, thriller, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ruben Fleischer, Eli Roth, Greta Gerwig and others, Ariana Greenblatt 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.
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 (2023) as Self - Presenter · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Young Gamora · The One and Only Ivan (2020) as Julia
Career snapshot
Ranked #2373 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
Most frequent director
Ruben Fleischer
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ruben Fleischer
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Avengers: Infinity War, A Bad Moms Christmas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. Avengers: Infinity War, A Bad Moms Christmas.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | — | 6.83 films |
| Action | 8.51 film | 5.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.96 films |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | — | 7.11 film |
| Horror | — | 5.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lori.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Christy Renault.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Self - Presenter
Directed by Sam Wrench
as Young Gamora
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Tabitha (voice)
Directed by Tom McGrath
as Minnow
Directed by Michael Matthews
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
Self - Presenter
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 (2023)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self - Presenter gives Ariana Greenblatt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Gamora
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Performance score8.2
Avengers: Infinity War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Gamora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Julia
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
Performance score7.5
The One and Only Ivan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julia is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tabitha (voice)
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Performance score7.4
The Boss Baby: Family Business asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tabitha (voice) 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 Self - Presenter
Start here. iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 is the clearest statement of what Ariana Greenblatt does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ariana 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.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
A deliberate change of key after iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Infinity War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love and Monsters (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of The One and Only Ivan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Love and Monsters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bad Moms Christmas
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Infinity War
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together
Notably The One and Only Ivan
Tony Cervone
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoob!
Michael Matthews
Director
1 film together
Notably Love and Monsters
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Heights
Tom McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boss Baby: Family Business
Christo Stamboliev
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus
Sam Wrench
Director
1 film together
Notably iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbie
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Borderlands
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Wrench
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: Infinity WarThea Sharrock
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The One and Only IvanTom McGrath
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 Boss Baby: Family BusinessMichael Matthews
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love and MonstersGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarbieJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the HeightsTony Cervone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scoob!Christo Stamboliev
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Boss Baby: Christmas BonusRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me: Now You Don'tJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Bad Moms ChristmasEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BorderlandsSix 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
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
In the Heights
as Young Nina
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Young Gamora
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
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. Ariana Greenblatt 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
7 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
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
In the Heights
as Young Nina
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scoob!
as Young Velma (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023
as Self - Presenter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
65
as Koa
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Boss Baby: Family Business
as Tabitha (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Infinity War
as Young Gamora
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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