Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#259
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kathryn Newton 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.
Kathryn Newton appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kathryn. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 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 comedy, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Alex Prager, Jeff Wadlow and others, Kathryn Newton 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as Angela · Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026) as Faith MacCaullay · Lady Bird (2017) as Darlene Bell
Career snapshot
Ranked #259 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Most frequent director
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Most common genre
Comedy
9 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
6.2
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Ben Is Back, Blockers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Ben Is Back, Blockers.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | 7.43 films | 3.32 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.24 films |
| Comedy | 6.63 films | 6.76 films |
| Crime | 8.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.72 films |
| Horror | 5.71 film | 5.66 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Bad Teacher
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Chase Rubin-Rosse.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.1 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
2026Samo Lives
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.
21 of 21 films
as Faith MacCaullay
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Lucy Stevens
Directed by Rob Letterman
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
Faith MacCaullay
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Faith MacCaullay gives Kathryn Newton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Angela
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Performance score7.8
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Angela is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lucy Stevens
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Performance score7.4
Pokémon Detective Pikachu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lucy Stevens is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Margaret
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
Performance score7.3
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Margaret 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 Faith MacCaullay
Start here. Ready or Not: Here I Come is the clearest statement of what Kathryn Newton does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kathryn 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Ready or Not: Here I Come — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Freaky (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Pokémon Detective Pikachu — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
Same director as Freaky, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
2 films together
Notably Ready or Not: Here I Come
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Teacher
Henry Joost
Director
1 film together
Notably Paranormal Activity 4
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Kay Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blockers
Peter Hedges
Director
1 film together
Notably Ben Is Back
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Winner
Zelda Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Lisa Frankenstein
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Samo Lives
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil's Mouth
Alex Prager
Director
1 film together
Notably DreamQuil
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ready or Not: Here I ComeMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady BirdRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon Detective PikachuSusanna Fogel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WinnerPeter Hedges
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ben Is BackJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil's MouthAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdayZelda Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lisa FrankensteinPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaKay Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlockersBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad TeacherHenry Joost
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paranormal Activity 4Alex Prager
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DreamQuilJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Samo LivesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Angela
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
as Margaret
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Angela
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lady Bird
as Darlene Bell
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Faith MacCaullay
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. Kathryn Newton 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Angela
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Angela
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
as Margaret
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
DreamQuil
as Margo Case
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lucy Stevens
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Lucy Stevens
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Angela
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Cassie Lang
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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