Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2482
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Aya Cash 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.
Aya Cash appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aya. Kill Me 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 mystery, comedy, war. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Russell Gunn, Santino Fontana, Tayarisha Poe and others, Aya Cash 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.
Kill Me (2026) as Alice · The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Janet (Jordan's Assistant) · Begin Again (2014) as Jenny
Career snapshot
Ranked #2482 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Kill Me
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Kill Me
Most frequent director
Michael Russell Gunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Russell Gunn
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.3
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. Game Over, Man!, Begin Again, The Wolf of Wall Street — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Deception.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | — | 7.82 films | 2.72 films |
| Action | — | 5.51 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | — | 0.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.03 films | 7.24 films |
| Crime | — | 8.31 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film | 5.91 film |
| Horror | — | — | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Deception
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Secretary #2.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Kill Me
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
2026The Brink of War
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.
11 of 11 films
as Janet (Jordan's Assistant)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Jenny
Directed by John Carney
as Lori
Directed by Jeff Rosenberg
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Alice
Kill Me (2026)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alice gives Aya Cash a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Janet (Jordan's Assistant)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Janet (Jordan's Assistant) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rabbi Rachel
The Floaters (2026)
Performance score7.4
The Floaters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rabbi Rachel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jenny
Begin Again (2014)
Performance score7.1
Begin Again asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jenny 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 Alice
Start here. Kill Me is the clearest statement of what Aya Cash does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aya 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.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of Kill Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Begin Again (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Broke Up (2021)
Keeps the romance register of Begin Again but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Floaters (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of We Broke Up but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
John Carney
Director
1 film together
Notably Begin Again
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Over, Man!
Josh Ruben
Director
1 film together
Notably Scare Me
Jeff Rosenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably We Broke Up
Tayarisha Poe
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young Wife
Santino Fontana
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Wish
Michael Russell Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brink of War
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetJohn Carney
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Begin AgainJeff Rosenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Broke UpJosh Ruben
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scare MeKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game Over, Man!Tayarisha Poe
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Young WifeMichael Russell Gunn
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 Brink of WarSantino Fontana
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death WishSix 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
Kill Me
as Alice
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Begin Again
as Jenny
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kill Me
as Alice
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Janet (Jordan's Assistant)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kill Me
as Alice
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. Aya Cash 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
Kill Me
as Alice
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kill Me
as Alice
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Begin Again
as Jenny
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kill Me
as Alice
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kill Me
as Alice
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Game Over, Man!
as Cassie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Begin Again
as Jenny
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Janet (Jordan's Assistant)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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