Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2961
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Deborah Ann Woll 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.
Deborah Ann Woll appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Deborah. The Punisher: One Last Kill is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 horror, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Reinaldo Marcus Green, Ash Avildsen, Mark A. Altman and others, Deborah Ann Woll 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 Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) as Karen Page · Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee (2019) as Self · Ruby Sparks (2012) as Lila
Career snapshot
Ranked #2961 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
The Punisher: One Last Kill
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Punisher: One Last Kill
Most frequent director
Reinaldo Marcus Green
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Reinaldo Marcus Green
Most common genre
Horror
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Stucco, Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee, Ruby Sparks — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 4 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. Stucco, Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee, Ruby Sparks.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 7.11 film | 6.83 films |
| Action | — | 6.92 films |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 4.64 films |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | — |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.92 films |
| Romance | 7.11 film | — |
| Horror | 5.92 films | 4.23 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Mother's Day
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lydia Koffin.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Punisher: One Last Kill
8.1 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. The current state of the argument, as Karen Page.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Karen Page
Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
as Lila
Directed by Jonathan Dayton
as Lydia Koffin
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
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
Karen Page
The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Karen Page gives Deborah Ann Woll a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Best Christmas Movies Ever! (2024)
Performance score7.1
Best Christmas Movies Ever! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee (2019)
Performance score7.0
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lila
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Performance score7.0
Ruby Sparks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lila 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 Karen Page
Start here. The Punisher: One Last Kill is the clearest statement of what Deborah Ann Woll does — accessible, 51 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Deborah 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.
Mother's Day (2010)
Keeps the crime register of The Punisher: One Last Kill but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ruby Sparks (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Mother's Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee (2019)
Keeps the fantasy register of Ruby Sparks but asks for a colder reading of it.
Best Christmas Movies Ever! (2024)
Keeps the documentary register of Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together
Notably Mother's Day
Jonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Ruby Sparks
Janina Gavankar
Director
1 film together
Notably Stucco
Mark A. Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Best Christmas Movies Ever!
Ash Avildsen
Director
1 film together
Notably Queen of the Ring
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Director
1 film together
Notably The Punisher: One Last Kill
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Punisher: One Last KillJonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ruby SparksMark A. Altman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Best Christmas Movies Ever!Ash Avildsen
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queen of the RingDarren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mother's DayJanina Gavankar
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StuccoSix 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 Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ruby Sparks
as Lila
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 Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
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. Deborah Ann Woll 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in horror, 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 Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ruby Sparks
as Lila
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
as Amanda Harper
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Punisher: One Last Kill
as Karen Page
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ruby Sparks
as Lila
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Queen of the Ring
as Gladys Gillem
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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