Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16518
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Camilla Belle represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Camilla is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Camilla Belle appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Camilla. Practical Magic is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul McGuigan, Simon West, Jamie Babbit and others, Camilla Belle 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.
Practical Magic (1998) as Eleven-Year-Old Sally · The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) as Cathy Bowman · The Chumscrubber (2005) as Crystal
Career snapshot
Ranked #16518 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1997–2022
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Practical Magic
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Practical Magic
Most frequent director
Paul McGuigan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Paul McGuigan
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.3
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
1990s
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Practical Magic, The Lost World: Jurassic Park — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Practical Magic, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.23 films | — | — |
| Action | 6.61 film | 6.21 film | 4.91 film | 6.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.22 films | 4.91 film | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cathy Bowman.
Highest rated performance
1998Practical Magic
6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2005The Chumscrubber
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2022Carter
The current state of the argument, as Agnes.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Crystal
Directed by Unknown
as Kira Hudson
Directed by Paul McGuigan
as Eleven-Year-Old Sally
Directed by Griffin Dunne
as Dot
Directed by Jamie Babbit
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The defining work
#1
Crystal
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Crystal gives Camilla Belle a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kira Hudson
Push (2009)
Performance score6.7
Push asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kira Hudson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eleven-Year-Old Sally
Practical Magic (1998)
Performance score6.7
Practical Magic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eleven-Year-Old Sally is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dot
The Quiet (2005)
Performance score6.6
The Quiet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dot 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 Crystal
Start here. The Chumscrubber is the clearest statement of what Camilla Belle does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Camilla 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.
Practical Magic (1998)
Keeps the comedy register of The Chumscrubber but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Quiet (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Practical Magic — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Keeps the drama register of The Quiet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Push (2009)
A deliberate change of key after The Ballad of Jack and Rose — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together
Notably Practical Magic
Rebecca Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Jamie Babbit
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quiet
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably When a Stranger Calls
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Push
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Practical MagicSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lost World: Jurassic ParkPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PushJamie Babbit
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The QuietRebecca 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
The Ballad of Jack and RoseSimon West
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When a Stranger CallsSix 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 Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Cathy Bowman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Practical Magic
as Eleven-Year-Old Sally
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Practical Magic
as Eleven-Year-Old Sally
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Cathy Bowman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Chumscrubber
as Crystal
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. Camilla Belle 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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
Practical Magic
as Eleven-Year-Old Sally
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Carter
as Agnes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Practical Magic
as Eleven-Year-Old Sally
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
When a Stranger Calls
as Jill Johnson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Cathy Bowman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Diablo
as Alexsandra
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Chumscrubber
as Crystal
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Push
as Kira Hudson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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