Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2852
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lady Gaga 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.
Lady Gaga appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lady. The Lady and The Legend is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 music, documentary, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Beth McCarthy-Miller, Todd Phillips, Lady Gaga and others, Lady Gaga 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.
The Lady and The Legend (2026) as Self · Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026) as Self · Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #2852 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Lady and The Legend
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Lady and The Legend
Most frequent director
Beth McCarthy-Miller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Beth McCarthy-Miller
Most common genre
Music
8 titles
Average runtime
2h 14m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.6
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem, The Lady and The Legend, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. A Star Is Born, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Muppets Most Wanted.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 7.51 film | 6.02 films |
| Action | 6.02 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.02 films | 5.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.83 films |
| Crime | 6.13 films | 6.02 films |
| Romance | 7.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Machete Kills
Where our catalogue meets this career, as La Camaleón.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Ally Campana
Directed by Bradley Cooper
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
Self
The Lady and The Legend (2026)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Lady Gaga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
Performance score8.7
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024)
Performance score8.7
Gaga Chromatica Ball asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Lady Gaga, a Star Is Born (2022)
Performance score8.7
Lady Gaga, a Star Is Born asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Self
Start here. The Lady and The Legend is the clearest statement of what Lady Gaga does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lady 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.
A Star Is Born (2018)
Keeps the music register of The Lady and The Legend but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lady Gaga, a Star Is Born (2022)
A deliberate change of key after A Star Is Born — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Lady Gaga, a Star Is Born — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
Keeps the music register of Gaga Chromatica Ball but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
2 films together
Notably SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Machete Kills
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets Most Wanted
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably A Star Is Born
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably House of Gucci
Ben Winston
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends: The Reunion
Lady Gaga
Director
1 film together
Notably Gaga Chromatica Ball
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Joker: Folie à Deux
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertLady Gaga
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gaga Chromatica BallBen Winston
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends: The ReunionBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Star Is BornRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House of GucciFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets Most WantedRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Machete KillsTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joker: Folie à DeuxSix 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
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Star Is Born
as Ally Campana
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One World: Together at Home
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
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. Lady Gaga 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.
Music Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in music, 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
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Star Is Born
as Ally Campana
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Joker: Folie à Deux
as Lee Quinzel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Lady and The Legend
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Bertha
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Muppets Most Wanted
as Self
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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