Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4065
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lily Collins 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.
Lily Collins appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lily. Love, Rosie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Charlie McDowell, David Fincher, Joe Berlinger and others, Lily Collins 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.
Love, Rosie (2014) as Rosie Dunne · The Blind Side (2009) as Collins Tuohy · Tarzan (1999) as Baby Ape (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4065 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1999–2022
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Love, Rosie
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Love, Rosie
Most frequent director
Charlie McDowell
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Charlie McDowell
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.5
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
7.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Blind Side — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.7
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. Tarzan.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | — | 7.71 film | 6.97 films | 6.23 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.81 film | 5.92 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.55 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 7.01 film | 5.51 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.74 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Tarzan
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Baby Ape (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Love, Rosie
7.8 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
2022Windfall
The current state of the argument, as Wife.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Rosie Dunne
Directed by Christian Ditter
as Samantha 'Sam' Borgens
Directed by Josh Boone
as Collins Tuohy
Directed by John Lee Hancock
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
Rosie Dunne
Love, Rosie (2014)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rosie Dunne gives Lily Collins a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ellen
To the Bone (2017)
Performance score7.8
To the Bone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ellen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Samantha 'Sam' Borgens
Stuck in Love (2013)
Performance score7.7
Stuck in Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Samantha 'Sam' Borgens is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Collins Tuohy
The Blind Side (2009)
Performance score7.7
The Blind Side asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Collins Tuohy 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 Rosie Dunne
Start here. Love, Rosie is the clearest statement of what Lily Collins does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lily 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.
The Blind Side (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Love, Rosie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stuck in Love (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Blind Side but asks for a colder reading of it.
To the Bone (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Stuck in Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Keeps the drama register of To the Bone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kevin Lima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tarzan
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Blind Side
Scott Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably Priest
John Singleton
Director
1 film together
Notably Abduction
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Mirror Mirror
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck in Love
Craig Zisk
Director
1 film together
Notably The English Teacher
Christian Ditter
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Rosie
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Rules Don't Apply
Marti Noxon
Director
1 film together
Notably To the Bone
Bong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Okja
Joe Berlinger
Director
1 film together
Notably Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Mank
Charlie McDowell
Director
1 film together
Notably Windfall
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christian Ditter
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, RosieJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Blind SideKevin Lima
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TarzanJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck in LoveBong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OkjaMarti Noxon
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To the BoneJoe Berlinger
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and VileDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MankTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mirror MirrorScott Stewart
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PriestWarren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rules Don't ApplyJohn Singleton
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AbductionCraig Zisk
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The English TeacherCharlie McDowell
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WindfallSix 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 Blind Side
as Collins Tuohy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love, Rosie
as Rosie Dunne
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Love, Rosie
as Rosie Dunne
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tarzan
as Baby Ape (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Love, Rosie
as Rosie Dunne
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. Lily Collins 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
23 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
11 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
Love, Rosie
as Rosie Dunne
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Okja
as Red
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mank
as Rita Alexander
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inheritance
as Lauren Monroe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Okja
as Red
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Okja
as Red
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love, Rosie
as Rosie Dunne
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tarzan
as Baby Ape (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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