Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1847
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lucy Lawless 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.
Lucy Lawless appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lucy. Spider-Man is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 drama, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Balda, Philip Gelatt, Kirby Atkins and others, Lucy Lawless 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.
Spider-Man (2002) as Punk Rock Girl · Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) as Nun-Chuck (voice) · Mosley (2019) as Bera (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1847 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2002–2025
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Spider-Man
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Spider-Man
Most frequent director
Kyle Balda
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kyle Balda
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mosley — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Bitch Slap, Bedtime Stories, Justice League: The New Frontier.
Most productive era
2000s
6 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 | 4.82 films | — | 6.41 film |
| Action | 6.43 films | — | 6.01 film |
| Thriller | 4.82 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.93 films | — | 7.31 film |
| Crime | 4.81 film | — | 7.31 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Horror | 4.91 film | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2002Spider-Man
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Punk Rock Girl. 7.7 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
2025Pike River
The current state of the argument, as Helen Kelly.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Punk Rock Girl
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Bera (voice)
Directed by Kirby Atkins
as Nun-Chuck (voice)
Directed by Kyle Balda
as Wonder Woman (voice)
Directed by Dave Bullock
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
Punk Rock Girl
Spider-Man (2002)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Punk Rock Girl gives Lucy Lawless a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bera (voice)
Mosley (2019)
Performance score7.4
Mosley asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bera (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nun-Chuck (voice)
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Performance score7.2
Minions: The Rise of Gru asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nun-Chuck (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wonder Woman (voice)
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
Performance score7.0
Justice League: The New Frontier asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wonder Woman (voice) 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 Punk Rock Girl
Start here. Spider-Man is the clearest statement of what Lucy Lawless does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lucy 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.
EuroTrip (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
A deliberate change of key after EuroTrip — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mosley (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Justice League: The New Frontier but asks for a colder reading of it.
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Keeps the family register of Mosley but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man
Alec Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably EuroTrip
Stephen Kay
Director
1 film together
Notably Boogeyman
Dave Bullock
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: The New Frontier
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Bedtime Stories
Rick Jacobson
Director
1 film together
Notably Bitch Slap
Kirby Atkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Mosley
Philip Gelatt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spine of Night
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions: The Rise of Gru
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-ManKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minions: The Rise of GruKirby Atkins
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MosleyDave Bullock
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: The New FrontierAlec Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuroTripAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bedtime StoriesPhilip Gelatt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spine of NightStephen Kay
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoogeymanRick Jacobson
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bitch SlapSix 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
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mosley
as Bera (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
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
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. Lucy Lawless 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mosley
as Bera (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Boogeyman
as Tim's Mother
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League: The New Frontier
as Wonder Woman (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bedtime Stories
as Aspen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man
as Punk Rock Girl
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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