Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2603
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eva Green 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.
Eva Green appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eva. Casino Royale is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 thriller, war, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Martin Campbell, Martin Bourboulon, Alice Winocour and others, Eva Green 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.
Casino Royale (2006) as Vesper Lynd · Kingdom of Heaven (2005) as Sibylla · The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) as Milady
Career snapshot
Ranked #2603 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Casino Royale
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Casino Royale
Most frequent director
Martin Campbell
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Martin Campbell
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Cracks, Franklyn, The Golden Compass — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. Cracks, Franklyn, The Golden Compass.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 6.63 films | 6.46 films | 6.53 films |
| Action | 6.73 films | 6.32 films | 6.72 films |
| Thriller | 6.83 films | 6.13 films | 4.13 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Crime | 5.31 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 5.31 film | 6.52 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Arsène Lupin
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Clarisse.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006Casino Royale
7.7 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
2026Just Play Dead
The current state of the argument, as Nora Wolfe.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Vesper Lynd
Directed by Martin Campbell
as Sibylla
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Miss Peregrine
Directed by Tim Burton
as Susan
Directed by David Mackenzie
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
Vesper Lynd
Casino Royale (2006)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vesper Lynd gives Eva Green a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sibylla
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Performance score7.6
Kingdom of Heaven asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sibylla is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miss Peregrine
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Performance score7.4
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miss Peregrine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Susan
Perfect Sense (2011)
Performance score7.3
Perfect Sense asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Susan 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 Vesper Lynd
Start here. Casino Royale is the clearest statement of what Eva Green does — accessible, 144 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eva 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.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Keeps the action register of Casino Royale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cracks (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Kingdom of Heaven but asks for a colder reading of it.
Perfect Sense (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Cracks but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Perfect Sense — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Burton
Director
3 films together
Notably Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Martin Campbell
Director
3 films together
Notably Casino Royale
Martin Bourboulon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Jean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together
Notably Arsène Lupin
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingdom of Heaven
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Golden Compass
David Mackenzie
Director
1 film together
Notably Perfect Sense
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably White Bird in a Blizzard
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Based on a True Story
Lisa Langseth
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria
Alice Winocour
Director
1 film together
Notably Proxima
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Burton
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenMartin Campbell
Director
3 films together · 4.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Casino RoyaleMartin Bourboulon
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Three Musketeers: D'ArtagnanRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kingdom of HeavenDavid Mackenzie
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Perfect SenseFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForLisa Langseth
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuphoriaAlice Winocour
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ProximaGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Bird in a BlizzardChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Golden CompassRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Based on a True StoryJean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Arsène LupinSix 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
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Perfect Sense
as Susan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
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. Eva Green 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 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
12 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
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dumbo
as Colette Marchant
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nocebo
as Christine
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
as Milady
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Salvation
as Madelaine
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Kingdom of Heaven
as Sibylla
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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