Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1626
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Katie Holmes represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Katie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Katie Holmes appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Katie. Batman Begins is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Katie Holmes, Andy Tennant, Simon Curtis and others, Katie Holmes 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.
Batman Begins (2005) as Rachel Dawes · The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020) as Miranda Wells · Woman in Gold (2015) as Pam Schoenberg
Career snapshot
Ranked #1626 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Batman Begins
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Batman Begins
Most frequent director
Katie Holmes
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Katie Holmes
Most common genre
Drama
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.4
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
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Mad Money, Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Muppets from Space, Go, Disturbing Behavior.
Most productive era
2000s
9 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.67 films | 6.16 films | 4.64 films |
| Action | — | 7.32 films | 6.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 6.13 films | 5.42 films | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.65 films | 5.53 films | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 7.13 films | 5.92 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | 4.91 film | 4.13 films |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 6.51 film | 5.81 film | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997The Ice Storm
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Libbets Casey.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2005Batman Begins
8.0 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.
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 Rachel Dawes
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Pam Schoenberg
Directed by Simon Curtis
as Claire Montgomery
Directed by Doug Liman
as Heather Holloway
Directed by Jason Reitman
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
Rachel Dawes
Batman Begins (2005)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rachel Dawes gives Katie Holmes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Miranda Wells
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Performance score7.9
The Secret: Dare to Dream asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miranda Wells is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pam Schoenberg
Woman in Gold (2015)
Performance score7.4
Woman in Gold asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pam Schoenberg is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Claire Montgomery
Go (1999)
Performance score7.4
Go asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire Montgomery 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 Rachel Dawes
Start here. Batman Begins is the clearest statement of what Katie Holmes does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Katie 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.
Go (1999)
Keeps the crime register of Batman Begins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Keeps the comedy register of Go but asks for a colder reading of it.
Woman in Gold (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Thank You for Smoking but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Woman in Gold but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Katie Holmes
Director
2 films together
Notably Alone Together
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ice Storm
David Nutter
Director
1 film together
Notably Disturbing Behavior
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Go
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets from Space
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gift
Curtis Hanson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Boys
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Abandon
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Phone Booth
Peter Hedges
Director
1 film together
Notably Pieces of April
Forest Whitaker
Director
1 film together
Notably First Daughter
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Begins
Callie Khouri
Director
1 film together
Notably Mad Money
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack and Jill
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably The Giver
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably Woman in Gold
Andy Tennant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret: Dare to Dream
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Katie Holmes
Director
2 films together · 2.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Alone TogetherChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman BeginsAndy Tennant
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 Secret: Dare to DreamSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woman in GoldJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thank You for SmokingDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phone BoothAng Lee
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 Ice StormCurtis Hanson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder BoysPhillip Noyce
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 GiverCallie Khouri
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mad MoneyPeter Hedges
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pieces of AprilSam Raimi
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 GiftForest Whitaker
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
First DaughterTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets from SpaceDavid Nutter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disturbing BehaviorStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AbandonDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack and JillSix 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
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
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 Secret: Dare to Dream
as Miranda Wells
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Muppets from Space
as Joey Potter (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
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. Katie Holmes 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
29 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
18 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
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alone Together
as June
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Brahms: The Boy II
as Liza
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
First Daughter
as Samantha Mackenzie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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