Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1862
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Celia Weston represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Celia is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Celia Weston appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Celia. The Secret: Dare to Dream is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicholas Stoller, Michael Uppendahl, Andy Tennant and others, Celia Weston 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.
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020) as Bobby · Dead Man Walking (1995) as Mary Beth Percy · The Intern (2015) as Doris
Career snapshot
Ranked #1862 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
1995–2025
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Secret: Dare to Dream
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Secret: Dare to Dream
Most frequent director
Ang Lee
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ang Lee
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.5
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
6.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Ride with the Devil, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Snow Falling on Cedars — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
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. Ride with the Devil, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Snow Falling on Cedars.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.65 films | 6.510 films | 6.02 films | 6.82 films |
| Action | — | 5.61 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.21 film | 6.37 films | 4.51 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.12 films | 6.44 films | 6.44 films | 5.91 film |
| Crime | 7.21 film | 5.41 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.93 films | — | 6.62 films |
| Horror | — | 6.03 films | 4.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Dead Man Walking
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mary Beth Percy. 7.3 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 Flora.
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.
28 of 28 films
as Mary Beth Percy
Directed by Tim Robbins
as Aunt Joan
Directed by Anthony Minghella
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
Bobby
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bobby gives Celia Weston a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mary Beth Percy
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Performance score7.4
Dead Man Walking asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mary Beth Percy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doris
The Intern (2015)
Performance score7.1
The Intern asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doris is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aunt Joan
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Performance score7.1
The Talented Mr. Ripley asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aunt Joan 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 Bobby
Start here. The Secret: Dare to Dream is the clearest statement of what Celia Weston does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Celia 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.
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Keeps the drama register of The Secret: Dare to Dream but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Dead Man Walking but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Intern (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Talented Mr. Ripley — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Poms (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Intern but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ang Lee
Director
2 films together
Notably Ride with the Devil
Tim Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man Walking
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Flirting with Disaster
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Celebrity
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably The Talented Mr. Ripley
Todd Field
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Bedroom
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Far from Heaven
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Runaway Jury
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Village
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invasion
Richard Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably The Box
Jody Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Observe and Report
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight and Day
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Adult Beginners
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Intern
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disappointments Room
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret: Dare to Dream
Michael Uppendahl
Director
1 film together
Notably Adam
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Cordially Invited
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ang Lee
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ride with the DevilAndy Tennant
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 Secret: Dare to DreamTim Robbins
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man WalkingNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Talented Mr. RipleyTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Far from HeavenGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Runaway JuryDonald Petrie
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose a Guy in 10 DaysTodd Field
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the BedroomM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VillageMichael Uppendahl
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AdamJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight and DayDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flirting with DisasterOliver Hirschbiegel
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 InvasionWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CelebrityNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Cordially InvitedRichard Kelly
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BoxRoss Katz
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adult BeginnersJody Hill
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Observe and ReportD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disappointments RoomSix 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
Dead Man Walking
as Mary Beth Percy
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 Secret: Dare to Dream
as Bobby
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dead Man Walking
as Mary Beth Percy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Runaway Jury
as Mrs. Brandt
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Secret: Dare to Dream
as Bobby
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. Celia Weston 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
30 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
19 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 Secret: Dare to Dream
as Bobby
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Talented Mr. Ripley
as Aunt Joan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret: Dare to Dream
as Bobby
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
After.Life
as Beatrice Taylor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dead Man Walking
as Mary Beth Percy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hulk
as Mrs. Krenzler
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
No Reservations
as Mrs. Peterson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
You're Cordially Invited
as Flora
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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