Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5322
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Da'Vine Joy Randolph 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.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Da'Vine. The Gallerist is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 comedy, drama, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cathy Yan, Simon West, Joe Carnahan and others, Da'Vine Joy Randolph 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 Gallerist (2026) as Stella Burgess · Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) as Mama Luna (voice) · The Holdovers (2023) as Mary Lamb
Career snapshot
Ranked #5322 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Gallerist
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Gallerist
Most frequent director
Cathy Yan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Cathy Yan
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.5
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Gallerist, AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy, Eternity — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Dolemite Is My Name, Office Christmas Party, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn.
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 | 6.32 films | 7.08 films |
| Action | — | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.13 films | 7.011 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | — | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nurse Rowan.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Gallerist
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Stella Burgess
Directed by Cathy Yan
as Mama Luna (voice)
Directed by Joel Crawford
as Mary Lamb
Directed by Alexander Payne
as Lady Reed
Directed by Craig Brewer
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
Stella Burgess
The Gallerist (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stella Burgess gives Da'Vine Joy Randolph a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mama Luna (voice)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Performance score8.0
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mama Luna (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mary Lamb
The Holdovers (2023)
Performance score7.9
The Holdovers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mary Lamb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lady Reed
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Performance score7.4
Dolemite Is My Name asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lady Reed 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 Stella Burgess
Start here. The Gallerist is the clearest statement of what Da'Vine Joy Randolph does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Da'Vine 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.
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Gallerist but asks for a colder reading of it.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of Dolemite Is My Name but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Holdovers (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eternity (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of The Holdovers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Phil Alden Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Christmas Party
Craig Brewer
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolemite Is My Name
Miranda July
Director
1 film together
Notably Kajillionaire
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Lee Daniels
Director
1 film together
Notably The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Holiday in Harmony
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Guilty
Adam Nee
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost City
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together
Notably Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Alexander Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Holdovers
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Shadow Force
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably Bride Hard
Cathy Yan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gallerist
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Cathy Yan
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GalleristJoel Crawford
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Puss in Boots: The Last WishAlexander Payne
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HoldoversWalt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Holiday in HarmonyCraig Brewer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dolemite Is My NameAdam Nee
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 Lost CityLee Daniels
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 United States vs. Billie HolidayJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shadow ForceAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GuiltyMiranda July
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KajillionaireJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office Christmas PartySimon West
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bride HardPhil Alden Robinson
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 Angriest Man in BrooklynSix 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 Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trolls World Tour
as Bliss Marina (voice) / Sheila B the Flowerface Balloon (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
The Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Trolls World Tour
as Bliss Marina (voice) / Sheila B the Flowerface Balloon (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
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. Da'Vine Joy Randolph 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in comedy, 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 Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
as Roslyn
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Mama Luna (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Gallerist
as Stella Burgess
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Lost City
as Beth Hatten
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Bliss Marina (voice) / Sheila B the Flowerface Balloon (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Mama Luna (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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