Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6794
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Imogen Poots 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.
Imogen Poots appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Imogen. V for Vendetta 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 romance, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nia DaCosta, Kristen Stewart, William Bridges and others, Imogen Poots 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.
V for Vendetta (2006) as Young Valerie · The Father (2020) as Laura · Jane Eyre (2011) as Blanche Ingram
Career snapshot
Ranked #6794 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
V for Vendetta
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
The Father
Most frequent director
Nia DaCosta
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nia DaCosta
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Cracks, Me and Orson Welles, 28 Weeks Later — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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, Me and Orson Welles, 28 Weeks Later.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | 6.52 films | 6.311 films | 6.16 films |
| Action | 8.11 film | 6.32 films | — |
| Thriller | 7.13 films | 6.33 films | 5.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.47 films | 5.61 film |
| Crime | — | 6.62 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.24 films | 5.92 films |
| Horror | 6.61 film | 5.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2006V for Vendetta
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Valerie. 8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020The Father
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025All of You
The current state of the argument, as Laura.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Young Valerie
Directed by James McTeigue
as Blanche Ingram
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
as Laura
Directed by William Bridges
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The defining work
#1
Laura
The Father (2020)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Laura gives Imogen Poots a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Valerie
V for Vendetta (2006)
Performance score7.8
V for Vendetta asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Valerie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lidia Yuknavitch
The Chronology of Water (2025)
Performance score7.4
The Chronology of Water asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lidia Yuknavitch is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Blanche Ingram
Jane Eyre (2011)
Performance score7.1
Jane Eyre asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Blanche Ingram 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 Laura
Start here. The Father is the clearest statement of what Imogen Poots does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Imogen 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.
V for Vendetta (2006)
A deliberate change of key after The Father — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jane Eyre (2011)
A deliberate change of key after V for Vendetta — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Chronology of Water (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Jane Eyre but asks for a colder reading of it.
All of You (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Chronology of Water but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together
Notably V for Vendetta
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Weeks Later
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Me and Orson Welles
Neil Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Centurion
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Fright Night
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably Jane Eyre
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Filth
John Ridley
Director
1 film together
Notably Jimi: All Is by My Side
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight of Cups
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Funny That Way
Jorma Taccone
Director
1 film together
Notably Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Jamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Virginia
Sophia Takal
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Christmas
Riley Stearns
Director
1 film together
Notably The Art of Self-Defense
Florian Zeller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Father
Joey Klein
Director
1 film together
Notably Castle in the Ground
Azazel Jacobs
Director
1 film together
Notably French Exit
William Bridges
Director
1 film together
Notably All of You
Kristen Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably The Chronology of Water
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably Hedda
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
V for VendettaFlorian Zeller
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FatherCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jane EyreKristen Stewart
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Chronology of WaterJon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FilthRiley Stearns
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Art of Self-DefenseJorma Taccone
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Popstar: Never Stop Never StoppingJuan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Weeks LaterRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me and Orson WellesWilliam Bridges
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All of YouCraig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fright NightNeil Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CenturionTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentJamie M. Dagg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet VirginiaPeter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Funny That WayTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight of CupsAzazel Jacobs
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
French ExitJohn Ridley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jimi: All Is by My SideNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeddaSophia Takal
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black ChristmasJoey Klein
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Castle in the GroundSix 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
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Jane Eyre
as Blanche Ingram
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Father
as Laura
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. Imogen Poots 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
19 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
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hedda
as Thea Clifton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cracks
as Poppy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Centurion
as Arianne
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Me and Orson Welles
as Lorelei Lathrop
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
V for Vendetta
as Young Valerie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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