Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8599
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Camille Cottin 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.
Camille Cottin appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Camille. Just an Illusion is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Edward Berger, Camille Chamoux, Olivier Nakache and others, Camille Cottin 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.
Just an Illusion (2026) as Sandrine Dayan · Out of Love (2025) as Jeanne Manin · Little Vampire (2020) as Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix)
Career snapshot
Ranked #8599 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2016–2027
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Just an Illusion
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Just an Illusion
Most frequent director
Edward Berger
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Edward Berger
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 27m
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
6.1
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Mystery of Henri Pick, Someone, Somewhere, On a Magical Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. The Mystery of Henri Pick, Someone, Somewhere, On a Magical Night.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 6.65 films | 4.712 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | 4.43 films |
| Comedy | 6.43 films | 5.05 films |
| Crime | — | 6.63 films |
| Romance | 6.62 films | 3.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Allied
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Monique.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Just an Illusion
7.4 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
2027The Riders
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.
21 of 21 films
as Sandrine Dayan
Directed by Olivier Nakache
as Christine Lourmel
Directed by Sarah Suco
as Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix)
Directed by Joann Sfar
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
Sandrine Dayan
Just an Illusion (2026)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sandrine Dayan gives Camille Cottin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jeanne Manin
Out of Love (2025)
Performance score7.5
Out of Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jeanne Manin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Christine Lourmel
The Dazzled (2019)
Performance score7.5
The Dazzled asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Christine Lourmel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix)
Little Vampire (2020)
Performance score7.3
Little Vampire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix) 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 Sandrine Dayan
Start here. Just an Illusion is the clearest statement of what Camille Cottin does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Camille 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 Dazzled (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Just an Illusion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Little Vampire (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Dazzled — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Icarus (2022)
Keeps the fantasy register of Little Vampire but asks for a colder reading of it.
Out of Love (2025)
Same director as Icarus, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Allied
Sarah Suco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dazzled
Joann Sfar
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Vampire
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably House of Gucci
Tom McCarthy
Director
1 film together
Notably Stillwater
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably A Haunting in Venice
Émilie Noblet
Director
1 film together
Notably Call My Agent! The Movie
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably Just an Illusion
Camille Chamoux
Director
1 film together
Notably Chamouxland : la reconstruction
Edward Berger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Riders
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just an IllusionJoann Sfar
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little VampireSarah Suco
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DazzledRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlliedKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Haunting in VeniceTom McCarthy
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StillwaterRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House of GucciCamille Chamoux
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chamouxland : la reconstructionEdward Berger
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 RidersÉmilie Noblet
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Call My Agent! The MovieSix 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
Just an Illusion
as Sandrine Dayan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Vampire
as Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Just an Illusion
as Sandrine Dayan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
House of Gucci
as Paola Franchi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Just an Illusion
as Sandrine Dayan
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. Camille Cottin 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
Little Vampire
as Mme Pandora, la mère de Petit Vampire (voix)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Haunting in Venice
as Olga Seminoff
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Les Misérables
as Mme Thénardier
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Haunting in Venice
as Olga Seminoff
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Just an Illusion
as Sandrine Dayan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Icarus
as Ariane (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Three Friends
as Alice
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Golda
as Lou Kaddar
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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