Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10019
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Louisa Krause 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.
Louisa Krause appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Louisa. Superman is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 western, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Gunn, John Slattery, Billy Crystal and others, Louisa Krause 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.
Superman (2025) as Sapphire Stagg · Dark Waters (2019) as Carla Pfeiffer · Here Today (2021) as Carrie
Career snapshot
Ranked #10019 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Superman
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Dark Waters
Most frequent director
James Gunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dark Waters, Skin, Woman Walks Ahead — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Taking Woodstock, The Babysitters.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 6.75 films | 6.23 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.51 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.02 films | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 6.01 film | 6.42 films |
| Crime | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Babysitters
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Brenda Woodberg.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Superman
7.5 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
2026You Can't Win
The current state of the argument, as Irish Annie.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Sapphire Stagg
Directed by James Gunn
as Carla Pfeiffer
Directed by Todd Haynes
as Carrie
Directed by Billy Crystal
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
Sapphire Stagg
Superman (2025)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sapphire Stagg gives Louisa Krause a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Carla Pfeiffer
Dark Waters (2019)
Performance score7.2
Dark Waters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carla Pfeiffer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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May
The Dive (2023)
Performance score7.0
The Dive asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. May is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carrie
Here Today (2021)
Performance score6.9
Here Today asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carrie 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 Sapphire Stagg
Start here. Superman is the clearest statement of what Louisa Krause does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Louisa 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.
Dark Waters (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Superman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Skin (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Dark Waters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Here Today (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Skin but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dive (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Here Today — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Taking Woodstock
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Young Adult
Susanna White
Director
1 film together
Notably Woman Walks Ahead
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Waters
Billy Crystal
Director
1 film together
Notably Here Today
John Slattery
Director
1 film together
Notably Maggie Moore(s)
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Gunn
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SupermanTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WatersBilly Crystal
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Here TodaySusanna White
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woman Walks AheadAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Taking WoodstockJohn Slattery
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maggie Moore(s)Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Young AdultSix 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
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cryptozoo
as Amber (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
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
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. Louisa Krause 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cryptozoo
as Amber (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Maggie Moore(s)
as Maggie Moore
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Superman
as Sapphire Stagg
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Taking Woodstock
as Hippie Girl
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Outerlands
as Kalli
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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