Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6812
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Georgia Goodman 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.
Georgia Goodman appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Georgia. Children of Men is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gore Verbinski, Edgar Wright, David Ayer and others, Georgia Goodman 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.
Children of Men (2006) as Georgette · Captain Phillips (2013) as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited) · The Beekeeper (2024) as Detective Marquez
Career snapshot
Ranked #6812 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Children of Men
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Children of Men
Most frequent director
Gore Verbinski
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gore Verbinski
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Children of Men — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.6
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. Children of Men.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.82 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | 7.61 film | 6.73 films | 7.14 films |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 6.73 films | 6.83 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.11 film |
| Crime | — | — | 7.31 film |
| Horror | — | — | 5.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2006Children of Men
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Georgette. 7.6 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
2026Frank & Louis
The current state of the argument, as Prisoner Intake Officer.
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 Georgette
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Detective Marquez
Directed by David Ayer
as Marie
Directed by Gore Verbinski
as Elizabeth
Directed by Edgar Wright
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
Georgette
Children of Men (2006)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Georgette gives Georgia Goodman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Performance score7.3
Captain Phillips asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. US Maritime Aldington (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Detective Marquez
The Beekeeper (2024)
Performance score7.2
The Beekeeper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Detective Marquez is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marie
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
Performance score7.0
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marie 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 Georgette
Start here. Children of Men is the clearest statement of what Georgia Goodman does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Georgia 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.
Captain Phillips (2013)
Keeps the action register of Children of Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Beekeeper (2024)
Keeps the action register of Captain Phillips but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Running Man (2025)
Keeps the action register of The Beekeeper but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
Keeps the action register of The Running Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together
Notably Children of Men
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Phillips
Ben Young
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinction
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Angel Has Fallen
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncharted
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Running Man
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children of MenPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain PhillipsDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BeekeeperGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't DieEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Running ManRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnchartedRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angel Has FallenBen Young
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctionSix 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
Captain Phillips
as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Captain Phillips
as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Children of Men
as Georgette
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Captain Phillips
as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Children of Men
as Georgette
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. Georgia Goodman 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
20 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in action, 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
Children of Men
as Georgette
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Beekeeper
as Detective Marquez
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Frank & Louis
as Prisoner Intake Officer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Infernal Machine
as Francesca
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Children of Men
as Georgette
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Uncharted
as Sister Bernadette
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Captain Phillips
as US Maritime Aldington (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Running Man
as Elizabeth
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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