Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5047
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ashley Greene 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.
Ashley Greene appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ashley. A Little Christmas Charm is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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 horror, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joel David Moore, Donovan Cook, James Nunn and others, Ashley Greene 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.
A Little Christmas Charm (2020) as Holly Hayes · Bombshell (2019) as Abby Huntsman · It Feeds (2025) as Cynthia Winstone
Career snapshot
Ranked #5047 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
A Little Christmas Charm
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
A Little Christmas Charm
Most frequent director
Bill Condon
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bill Condon
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Shrink, Twilight — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.2
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. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Shrink, Twilight.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.33 films | 6.36 films | 4.28 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | 5.63 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.03 films | 5.68 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.15 films | 5.81 film |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film | 5.85 films |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.35 films | 6.91 film |
| Horror | — | 5.02 films | 6.04 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Twilight
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alice Cullen.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.9 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
2026The Cure
The current state of the argument, as Georgia Braun.
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 Zoe Anderson
Directed by James Nunn
as Lucy Lovett
Directed by Maclain Nelson
as Natalie
Directed by Peter Winther
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
Holly Hayes
A Little Christmas Charm (2020)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Holly Hayes gives Ashley Greene a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cynthia Winstone
It Feeds (2025)
Performance score7.4
It Feeds asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cynthia Winstone is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zoe Anderson
One Shot (2021)
Performance score7.1
One Shot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zoe Anderson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lucy Lovett
Christmas On My Mind (2019)
Performance score7.1
Christmas On My Mind asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lucy Lovett 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 Holly Hayes
Start here. A Little Christmas Charm is the clearest statement of what Ashley Greene does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ashley 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.
Christmas On My Mind (2019)
Keeps the romance register of A Little Christmas Charm but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Shot (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Christmas On My Mind — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Aftermath (2021)
Keeps the crime register of One Shot but asks for a colder reading of it.
It Feeds (2025)
Keeps the horror register of Aftermath but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Twilight
Jonas Pate
Director
1 film together
Notably Shrink
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: New Moon
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Jim Field Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Butter
Joe Dante
Director
1 film together
Notably Burying the Ex
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Wish I Was Here
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably In Dubious Battle
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Accident Man
Maclain Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas On My Mind
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Rich Newey
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Christmas Charm
Peter Winther
Director
1 film together
Notably Aftermath
James Nunn
Director
1 film together
Notably One Shot
Donovan Cook
Director
1 film together
Notably Max & Me
Joel David Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Some Other Woman
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2Rich Newey
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Christmas CharmJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellJames Nunn
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One ShotZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wish I Was HereCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwilightMaclain Nelson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas On My MindJesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Accident ManPeter Winther
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AftermathDavid Slade
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: EclipseChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: New MoonJonas Pate
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShrinkJim Field Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ButterJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Dubious BattleJoe Dante
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Burying the ExJoel David Moore
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Some Other WomanDonovan Cook
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Max & MeSix 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
Bombshell
as Abby Huntsman
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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Alice Cullen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Little Christmas Charm
as Holly Hayes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bombshell
as Abby Huntsman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Little Christmas Charm
as Holly Hayes
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. Ashley Greene 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
17 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
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Alice Cullen
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
One Shot
as Zoe Anderson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Max & Me
as Rachel (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Urge
as Theresa
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Accident Man
as Charlie Adams
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Accident Man
as Charlie Adams
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
LOL
as Ashley
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
as Alice Cullen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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