Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1499
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chloë Sevigny represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Chloë is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Chloë Sevigny appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chloë. Zodiac is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 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 documentary, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sofia Coppola, Luca Guadagnino, Hailey Benton Gates and others, Chloë Sevigny 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.
Zodiac (2007) as Melanie · Disclosure (2020) as Lana Tisdel (archive footage) · Dogville (2003) as Liz Henson
Career snapshot
Ranked #1499 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
1996–2026
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
Zodiac
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Disclosure
Most frequent director
Luca Guadagnino
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Luca Guadagnino
Most common genre
Drama
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.8
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
2000s
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Zodiac, Zodiac, Broken Flowers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. The Last Days of Disco, Trees Lounge.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 7.46 films | 6.18 films | 6.24 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.73 films | 5.83 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.62 films | 5.43 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | 8.04 films | 6.24 films | — |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 6.62 films | 6.52 films | 6.62 films |
| Horror | — | — | 5.63 films | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Trees Lounge
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Debbie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2007Zodiac
8.8 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
2026Marc by Sofia
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.
24 of 24 films
as Melanie
Directed by David Fincher
as Melanie
Directed by David Fincher
as Jean
Directed by Mary Harron
as Lana Tisdel (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Liz Henson
Directed by Lars von Trier
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 36 titles · 37 total credits · active 1996–2026
Marc by Sofia
2026 · Actor
The Five Star Weekend
2026 · TV · Tatum McKenzie
After the Hunt
2025 · Dr. Kim Sayers
Bonjour Tristesse
2025 · Anne
Atropia
2025 · Pina
Summer Tour
2025 · Executive Producer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
2024 · TV · Mary Louise 'Kitty' Menendez
Poker Face
2023 · TV · Ruby Ruin
Bones and All
2022 · Janelle
Disclosure
2020 · Lana Tisdel (archive footage)
We Are Who We Are
2020 · TV · Sarah Wilson
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Officer Mindy Morrison
Queen & Slim
2019 · Mrs. Shepherd
Love Is Blind
2019 · Carolyn Krafft
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019 · Jen
The Act
2019 · TV · Mel
Russian Doll
2019 · TV · Lenora Vulvokov
Lean on Pete
2018 · Bonnie
Lizzie
2018 · Lizzie Borden · Producer
The Snowman
2017 · Sylvia Ottersen / Ane Pedersen
FEUD
2017 · TV · C. Z. Guest
Love & Friendship
2016 · Alicia Johnson
Bloodline
2015 · TV · Chelsea O'Bannon
The Mindy Project
2012 · TV · Christina
The defining work
#1
Melanie
Zodiac (2007)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Melanie gives Chloë Sevigny a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Melanie
Zodiac (2007)
Performance score7.7
Zodiac asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Melanie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jean
American Psycho (2000)
Performance score7.7
American Psycho asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jean is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lana Tisdel (archive footage)
Disclosure (2020)
Performance score7.6
Disclosure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lana Tisdel (archive footage) 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 Melanie
Start here. Zodiac is the clearest statement of what Chloë Sevigny does — accessible, 157 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chloë 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.
American Psycho (2000)
Keeps the crime register of Zodiac but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dogville (2003)
Keeps the crime register of American Psycho but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zodiac (2007)
Keeps the crime register of Dogville but asks for a colder reading of it.
Disclosure (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Zodiac — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Fincher
Director
2 films together
Notably Zodiac
Whit Stillman
Director
2 films together
Notably The Last Days of Disco
Jim Jarmusch
Director
2 films together
Notably Broken Flowers
Luca Guadagnino
Director
2 films together
Notably Bones and All
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Trees Lounge
Mary Harron
Director
1 film together
Notably American Psycho
Lars von Trier
Director
1 film together
Notably Dogville
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Melinda and Melinda
Werner Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Tomas Alfredson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Snowman
Craig William Macneill
Director
1 film together
Notably Lizzie
Andrew Haigh
Director
1 film together
Notably Lean on Pete
Melina Matsoukas
Director
1 film together
Notably Queen & Slim
Hailey Benton Gates
Director
1 film together
Notably Atropia
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Marc by Sofia
Zach Grenier
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Richmond Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Bob Stephenson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Mark Ruffalo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Anthony Edwards
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Elias Koteas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
John Carroll Lynch
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Brian Cox
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Dermot Mulroney
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Charles Fleischer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Zodiac
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Fincher
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ZodiacLuca Guadagnino
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bones and AllJim Jarmusch
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Broken FlowersWhit Stillman
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Last Days of DiscoLars von Trier
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DogvilleMary Harron
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American PsychoMelina Matsoukas
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queen & SlimAndrew Haigh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lean on PeteSteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trees LoungeCraig William Macneill
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LizzieWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Melinda and MelindaWerner Herzog
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marc by SofiaHailey Benton Gates
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AtropiaTomas Alfredson
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SnowmanSix 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
Zodiac
as Melanie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bones and All
as Janelle
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zodiac
as Melanie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Disclosure
as Lana Tisdel (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zodiac
as Melanie
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. Chloë Sevigny has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.8 | 8.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #570 of 681 | #21 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 3 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.8 | 8.9 |
| Genres | Crime, Mystery, Drama | Drama, History, Thriller, Crime |
| Directors | David Fincher | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Intensity, Drama | Quiet performance, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2007–2007 | 2007–2023 |
| Most iconic role | Melanie — Zodiac | Lewis Strauss — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Zodiac | Zodiac |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Zodiac
Shared directors
David Fincher
Shared collections
Best Detective Movies, Best Psychological Thrillers, Top 100 Crime Movies, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
David Fincher · Zach Grenier · Richmond Arquette · Bob Stephenson · Jake Gyllenhaal · Mark Ruffalo · Anthony Edwards · Elias Koteas
Robert Downey Jr. edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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
20 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
Zodiac
as Melanie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zodiac
as Melanie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bonjour Tristesse
as Anne
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zodiac
as Melanie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zodiac
as Melanie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Lean on Pete
as Bonnie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love & Friendship
as Alicia Johnson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Zodiac
as Melanie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 6 Nutevio collections
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