Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6427
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Julie Hagerty represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 47 years in, and Julie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Julie Hagerty appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Julie. Marriage Story 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 romance, mystery, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with M. Night Shyamalan, Tyler Spindel, Dave Franco and others, Julie Hagerty 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.
Marriage Story (2019) as Sandra · Instant Family (2018) as Jan · Airplane! (1980) as Elaine Dickinson
Career snapshot
Ranked #6427 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1980–2027
Career length
47 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Marriage Story
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Marriage Story
Most frequent director
M. Night Shyamalan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With M. Night Shyamalan
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.7
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
2010s
7.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Marriage Story, Instant Family — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Airplane!.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.61 film | 6.61 film | 7.62 films | 5.81 film |
| Action | — | — | — | — | 6.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.31 film | 7.21 film | 6.25 films | 7.51 film | 6.03 films |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film | 6.53 films | — | 3.93 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1980Airplane!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Elaine Dickinson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Marriage Story
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
2027Remain
The current state of the argument.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Sandra
Directed by Noah Baumbach
as Jan
Directed by Unknown
as Elaine Dickinson
Directed by Jim Abrahams
as Poppy Taylor
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
as Daphne
Directed by Andy Fickman
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
Sandra
Marriage Story (2019)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sandra gives Julie Hagerty a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jan
Instant Family (2018)
Performance score7.6
Instant Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elaine Dickinson
Airplane! (1980)
Performance score7.6
Airplane! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elaine Dickinson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Poppy Taylor
Noises Off... (1992)
Performance score7.3
Noises Off... asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Poppy 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 Sandra
Start here. Marriage Story is the clearest statement of what Julie Hagerty does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Julie 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.
Airplane! (1980)
A deliberate change of key after Marriage Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Noises Off... (1992)
Keeps the comedy register of Airplane! but asks for a colder reading of it.
She's the Man (2006)
Keeps the comedy register of Noises Off... but asks for a colder reading of it.
Instant Family (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of She's the Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jim Abrahams
Director
1 film together
Notably Airplane!
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably Noises Off...
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably U Turn
Tom Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Freddy Got Fingered
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Friends
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably She's the Man
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Shopaholic
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Marriage Story
Dave Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably Somebody I Used to Know
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Out-Laws
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Remain
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marriage StoryJim Abrahams
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Airplane!Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Noises Off...Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's the ManOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
U TurnP.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a ShopaholicRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just FriendsTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Out-LawsDave Franco
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Somebody I Used to KnowTom Green
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freddy Got FingeredM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RemainSix 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
Marriage Story
as Sandra
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
U Turn
as Flo
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Marriage Story
as Sandra
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
U Turn
as Flo
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Marriage Story
as Sandra
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. Julie Hagerty 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
47 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Marriage Story
as Sandra
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
U Turn
as Flo
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
U Turn
as Flo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Remain
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Marriage Story
as Sandra
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Out-Laws
as Margie Browning
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Somebody I Used to Know
as Libby
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Storytelling
as Fern Livingston
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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