Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15530
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Chase Sui Wonders is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Chase Sui Wonders appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chase. Past Lives is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gregg Araki, Julius Onah, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and others, Chase Sui Wonders 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.
Past Lives (2023) as Girl (voice) · I Want Your Sex (2026) as Apple · Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) as Emma
Career snapshot
Ranked #15530 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Past Lives
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Past Lives
Most frequent director
Gregg Araki
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gregg Araki
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 13m
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Daniel Isn't Real — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. Daniel Isn't Real.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | — | 3.95 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.33 films |
| Romance | — | 6.73 films |
| Horror | 6.21 film | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Makayla.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Past Lives
7.6 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
2026Samo Lives
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.
10 of 10 films
as Girl (voice)
Directed by Celine Song
as Ava Brucks
Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
as June
Directed by Chase Sui Wonders
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
Girl (voice)
Past Lives (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Girl (voice) gives Chase Sui Wonders a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ava Brucks
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Performance score6.8
I Know What You Did Last Summer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ava Brucks is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Apple
I Want Your Sex (2026)
Performance score6.6
I Want Your Sex asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Apple is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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June
Wake (2022)
Performance score6.6
Wake asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. June 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 Girl (voice)
Start here. Past Lives is the clearest statement of what Chase Sui Wonders does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chase 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.
Wake (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Past Lives but asks for a colder reading of it.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Wake — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
I Want Your Sex (2026)
A deliberate change of key after I Know What You Did Last Summer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Samo Lives (2026)
A deliberate change of key after I Want Your Sex — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Rocks
Chase Sui Wonders
Director
1 film together
Notably Wake
Neil LaBute
Director
1 film together
Notably Out of the Blue
Halina Reijn
Director
1 film together
Notably Bodies Bodies Bodies
Celine Song
Director
1 film together
Notably Past Lives
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably I Know What You Did Last Summer
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Samo Lives
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably I Want Your Sex
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Celine Song
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Past LivesGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Want Your SexHalina Reijn
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bodies Bodies BodiesSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the RocksNeil LaBute
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Out of the BlueJennifer Kaytin Robinson
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Know What You Did Last SummerChase Sui Wonders
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WakeJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Samo LivesSix 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
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
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. Chase Sui Wonders 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
5 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
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Daniel Isn't Real
as Makayla
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
I Know What You Did Last Summer
as Ava Brucks
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Past Lives
as Girl (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bodies Bodies Bodies
as Emma
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
On the Rocks
as Chase
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wake
as June
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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