Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12830
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lola Kirke works on quiet performance 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.
Lola Kirke appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lola. Sinners is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ryan Coogler, Hailey Benton Gates, Doug Liman and others, Lola Kirke 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.
Sinners (2025) as Joan · Gone Girl (2014) as Greta · Sinners (2025) as Joan
Career snapshot
Ranked #12830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2014–2025
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Sinners
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Sinners
Most frequent director
Ryan Coogler
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ryan Coogler
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
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
6.6
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
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Sinners, Sinners, Atropia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 3 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. Untogether, Dreamland, American Made.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.45 films | 7.32 films |
| Action | — | 7.61 film |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | 8.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | 6.91 film | — |
| Horror | — | 8.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Gone Girl
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Greta.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Sinners
8.7 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
2025Atropia
The current state of the argument, as Candy.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Joan
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Greta
Directed by David Fincher
as Joan
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Judy Downing
Directed by Doug Liman
as Candy
Directed by Hailey Benton Gates
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 9 of 9 titles · 9 total credits · active 2014–2025
The defining work
#1
Joan
Sinners (2025)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Joan gives Lola Kirke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Greta
Gone Girl (2014)
Performance score7.8
Gone Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Greta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joan
Sinners (2025)
Performance score7.4
Sinners asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Judy Downing
American Made (2017)
Performance score7.1
American Made asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judy Downing 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 Joan
Start here. Sinners is the clearest statement of what Lola Kirke does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lola 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.
Gone Girl (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Sinners but asks for a colder reading of it.
American Made (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Gone Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sinners (2025)
A deliberate change of key after American Made — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Atropia (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Sinners — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together
Notably Sinners
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone Girl
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Made
Hailey Benton Gates
Director
1 film together
Notably Atropia
Michael B. Jordan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Hailee Steinfeld
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Miles Caton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jack O'Connell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jayme Lawson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Omar Benson Miller
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Delroy Lindo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Li Jun Li
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Yao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Peter Dreimanis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Buddy Guy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SinnersDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gone GirlDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American MadeHailey Benton Gates
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AtropiaSix 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
Sinners
as Joan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dreamland
as Phoebe Evans (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sinners
as Joan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Atropia
as Candy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sinners
as Joan
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. Lola Kirke has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.7 | 8.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #612 of 681 | #7 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.7 | 9.4 |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, Drama | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Ryan Coogler | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Villain presence | Screen presence, Drama, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2025–2025 | 1994–2008 |
| Most iconic role | Joan — Sinners | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding — The Shawshank Redemption |
| Most rewatchable film | Sinners | The Shawshank Redemption |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 3 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Morgan Freeman edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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
Gone Girl
as Greta
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sinners
as Joan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dreamland
as Phoebe Evans (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gone Girl
as Greta
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sinners
as Joan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sinners
as Joan
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Made
as Judy Downing
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sinners
as Joan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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