Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4746
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maika Monroe 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.
Maika Monroe appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maika. Reminders of Him 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 romance, drama, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rich Lee, Osgood Perkins, Nick Cassavetes and others, Maika Monroe 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.
Reminders of Him (2026) as Kenna Rowan · Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name (2026) as Jay (uncredited) · Labor Day (2013) as Mandy
Career snapshot
Ranked #4746 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Reminders of Him
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Reminders of Him
Most frequent director
Rich Lee
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rich Lee
Most common genre
Thriller
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.2
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Honey Boy, Villains, Greta — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Honey Boy, Villains, Greta.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 6.37 films | 7.81 film |
| Action | 5.72 films | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 6.36 films | 5.38 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | — |
| Crime | 6.02 films | 6.14 films |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.92 films |
| Horror | 6.43 films | 5.57 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012At Any Price
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cadence Farrow.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Reminders of Him
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
2026Victorian Psycho
The current state of the argument, as Winifred Notty.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Kenna Rowan
Directed by Unknown
as Jay Height
Directed by David Robert Mitchell
as Agent Lee Harker
Directed by Osgood Perkins
as Julia
Directed by Chloe Okuno
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
Kenna Rowan
Reminders of Him (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kenna Rowan gives Maika Monroe a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jay (uncredited)
Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name (2026)
Performance score8.0
Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jay (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jay Height
It Follows (2015)
Performance score7.4
It Follows asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jay Height is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Agent Lee Harker
Longlegs (2024)
Performance score7.2
Longlegs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agent Lee Harker 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 Kenna Rowan
Start here. Reminders of Him is the clearest statement of what Maika Monroe does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maika 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.
It Follows (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Reminders of Him — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Watcher (2022)
Keeps the mystery register of It Follows but asks for a colder reading of it.
Longlegs (2024)
Keeps the mystery register of Watcher but asks for a colder reading of it.
Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name (2026)
Keeps the horror register of Longlegs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ramin Bahrani
Director
1 film together
Notably At Any Price
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bling Ring
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Labor Day
David Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably It Follows
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Independence Day: Resurgence
J Blakeson
Director
1 film together
Notably The 5th Wave
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Neil Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Greta
Alma Har'el
Director
1 film together
Notably Honey Boy
Chloe Okuno
Director
1 film together
Notably Watcher
Nick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together
Notably God Is a Bullet
Osgood Perkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Longlegs
Rich Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rich Lee
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a NameJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Labor DayAlma Har'el
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Honey BoyDavid Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It FollowsNeil Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GretaOsgood Perkins
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LonglegsChloe Okuno
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WatcherNick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
God Is a BulletPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White HouseJ Blakeson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 5th WaveRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Independence Day: ResurgenceSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bling RingRamin Bahrani
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
At Any PriceSix 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
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Bling Ring
as Beach Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
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. Maika Monroe 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Resident Evil Requiem: Evil Has Always Had a Name
as Jay (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Flashback
as Cindy Williams
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The 5th Wave
as Ringer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Reminders of Him
as Kenna Rowan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
It Follows
as Jay Height
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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