Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3523
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eleanor Matsuura 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.
Eleanor Matsuura appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eleanor. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Noah Baumbach, Zack Snyder, Thea Sharrock and others, Eleanor Matsuura 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.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) as Epone · Wonder Woman (2017) as Epione · The One and Only Ivan (2020) as Candace Taylor
Career snapshot
Ranked #3523 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Most frequent director
Noah Baumbach
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Noah Baumbach
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Jay Kelly, I Used to Be Famous, Zack Snyder's Justice League — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Breaking and Entering.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 6.32 films | 6.73 films |
| Action | — | 6.82 films | 8.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.32 films | 6.73 films |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 6.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ruby.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.2 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
2025Jay Kelly
The current state of the argument, as Dresser.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Epone
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Epione
Directed by Patty Jenkins
as Candace Taylor
Directed by Thea Sharrock
as Dresser
Directed by Noah Baumbach
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
Epone
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Epone gives Eleanor Matsuura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Epione
Wonder Woman (2017)
Performance score7.2
Wonder Woman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Epione is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amber
I Used to Be Famous (2022)
Performance score7.1
I Used to Be Famous asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amber is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Candace Taylor
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
Performance score7.0
The One and Only Ivan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Candace Taylor 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 Epone
Start here. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest statement of what Eleanor Matsuura does — accessible, 242 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eleanor 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.
Wonder Woman (2017)
Keeps the action register of Zack Snyder's Justice League but asks for a colder reading of it.
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Wonder Woman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
I Used to Be Famous (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The One and Only Ivan but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jay Kelly (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of I Used to Be Famous but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Breaking and Entering
Bharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together
Notably Spooks: The Greater Good
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Juliet, Naked
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together
Notably The One and Only Ivan
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Zack Snyder's Justice League
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Jay Kelly
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zack Snyder's Justice LeaguePatty Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WomanThea Sharrock
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The One and Only IvanJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Juliet, NakedNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jay KellyBharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spooks: The Greater GoodAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Breaking and EnteringSix 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
Wonder Woman
as Epione
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Breaking and Entering
as Ruby
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
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. Eleanor Matsuura 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
6 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
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Breaking and Entering
as Ruby
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Epone
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Juliet, Naked
as Cat
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Love Punch
as Michaela
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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