Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Florence Pugh is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Florence Pugh appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Florence. A modern lead who plays anger and grief in the same breath without softening either. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Destin Daniel Cretton, Denis Villeneuve and others, Florence Pugh 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Jean Tatlock · Dune: Part Two (2024) as Princess Irulan · Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) as Goldilocks (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #18 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2015–2027
Career length
12 yrs
Active since 2014
Academy Awards
0
Competitive wins
Oscar nominations
1
Career total
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Dune: Part Two
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.7
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
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Avengers: Secret Wars, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avengers: Doomsday — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 17 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
2020s
9 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Avengers: Secret Wars, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avengers: Doomsday.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 6.65 films | 7.96 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 5.75 films |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | 7.92 films |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | 7.72 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.01 film |
| Romance | 7.91 film | 7.21 film |
| Horror | 6.12 films | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
Career begins
2014Working from 2014
The start of the professional record — years before the catalogue picks the story up.
First film in Nutevio
2015The Falling
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Abbie Mortimer.
First Academy Award nomination
2020Little Women
Best Supporting Actress — the moment the industry started writing the same sentences our editors had been writing.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Yelena Belova.
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.
27 of 27 films
as Jean Tatlock
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Princess Irulan
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Goldilocks (voice)
Directed by Joel Crawford
as Jean Tatlock
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Amy March
Directed by Greta Gerwig
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 32 titles · 33 total credits · active 2015–2027
Avengers: Secret Wars
2027 · Yelena Belova
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · Yelena Belova / Black Widow
Avengers: Doomsday
2026 · Yelena Belova
Dune: Part Three
2026 · Princess Irulan
Thunderbolts*
2025 · Yelena Belova
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
2025 · TV · Self
Marvel Zombies
2025 · TV · Yelena Belova (voice)
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Princess Irulan
We Live in Time
2024 · Almut Brühl
Celebrity Substitute
2024 · TV · Self
Oppenheimer
2023 · Jean Tatlock
A Good Person
2023 · Allison · Producer
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 · Goldilocks (voice)
Don't Worry Darling
2022 · Alice
The Wonder
2022 · Lib Wright
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022 · Self - Yelena
Human Resources
2022 · TV · Sarah Crumbhorn (voice)
Black Widow
2021 · Yelena Belova
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021 · Self - Actress
Hawkeye
2021 · TV · Yelena Belova
Little Women
2019 · Amy March
In the Time It Takes to Get There
2019 · Lucille
Midsommar
2019 · Dani
Fighting with My Family
2019 · Saraya 'Paige' Knight
The defining work
#1
Jean Tatlock
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jean Tatlock gives Florence Pugh a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Princess Irulan
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.6
Dune: Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Princess Irulan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Goldilocks (voice)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Performance score8.3
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Goldilocks (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jean Tatlock
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.2
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jean Tatlock 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 Jean Tatlock
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Florence Pugh does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Florence 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.
Little Women (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Little Women — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
3 films together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Zach Braff
Director
2 films together
Notably In the Time It Takes to Get There
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
William Oldroyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Macbeth
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably The Commuter
David Mackenzie
Director
1 film together
Notably Outlaw King
Stephen Merchant
Director
1 film together
Notably Fighting with My Family
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Midsommar
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Women
Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Widow
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Olivia Wilde
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Worry Darling
Joel Crawford
Director
1 film together
Notably Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
John Crowley
Director
1 film together
Notably We Live in Time
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolts*
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rami Malek
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Dylan Arnold
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
3 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dune: Part TwoChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerZach Braff
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
In the Time It Takes to Get ThereAnthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdayJoel 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 WishGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little WomenDestin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Brand New DayJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolts*Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black WidowJohn Crowley
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Live in TimeBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of HawkeyeAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MidsommarOlivia Wilde
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Worry DarlingStephen Merchant
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fighting with My FamilyDavid Mackenzie
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Outlaw KingWilliam Oldroyd
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady MacbethJaume Collet-Serra
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 CommuterSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
3 wins · 4 nominations
2 wins · 2 nominations · latest 2025
Dune: Part Two
Oppenheimer
as Actor
Little Women · as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
Little Women · as Actor
1 win
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Dune: Part Two
as Princess Irulan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Jean Tatlock
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Jean Tatlock
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
as Self - Yelena
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Jean Tatlock
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. Florence Pugh has known it for a long time.”
“Long live the fighters.”
“I will love you as long as I breathe.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #158 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | 2 recorded | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | 0 | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | 1 | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, History | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Emotional range, Screen presence | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2023–2024 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Jean Tatlock — Oppenheimer | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Dune: Part Two | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 2 catalogue films | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Thriller Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy · Timothée Chalamet
Michael Caine 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.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
11 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
Dune: Part Two
as Princess Irulan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dune: Part Two
as Princess Irulan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
We Live in Time
as Almut Brühl
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Don't Worry Darling
as Alice
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dune: Part Two
as Princess Irulan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
as Yelena Belova / Black Widow
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
as Goldilocks (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Yelena Belova
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.
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Drama Movies
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Best Denis Villeneuve Movies
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Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
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Thriller Movies
Features Oppenheimer
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Best Space Movies
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