Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6571
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mamie Gummer represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Mamie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mamie Gummer appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mamie. Side Effects is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, mystery, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jonathan Demme, Daniel Barnz, Liz W. Garcia and others, Mamie Gummer 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.
Side Effects (2013) as Kayla · Cake (2014) as Bonnie · Taking Woodstock (2009) as Tisha
Career snapshot
Ranked #6571 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1986–2025
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
Side Effects
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
Side Effects
Most frequent director
Jonathan Demme
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jonathan Demme
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Taking Woodstock, Stop-Loss, Evening — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Heartburn.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.01 film | 6.03 films | 5.85 films | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.22 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 6.21 film | 5.62 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | 5.82 films | — |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 5.81 film | 5.41 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.81 film | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Heartburn
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Annie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Side Effects
6.6 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
The current state of the argument, as Self (voice).
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.
12 of 12 films
as Kayla
Directed by Unknown
as Maggie
Directed by Unknown
as Jennifer Rockwell
Directed by Unknown
as Julie Brummel
Directed by Jonathan Demme
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
Kayla
Side Effects (2013)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kayla gives Mamie Gummer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (voice)
This Ordinary Thing (2025)
Performance score6.5
This Ordinary Thing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maggie
Separation (2021)
Performance score6.5
Separation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maggie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jennifer Rockwell
Out of Blue (2019)
Performance score6.5
Out of Blue asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jennifer Rockwell 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 Kayla
Start here. Side Effects is the clearest statement of what Mamie Gummer does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mamie 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.
Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Side Effects but asks for a colder reading of it.
Out of Blue (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Ricki and the Flash but asks for a colder reading of it.
Separation (2021)
Same director as Out of Blue, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
This Ordinary Thing (2025)
Same director as Separation, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Heartburn
Lajos Koltai
Director
1 film together
Notably Evening
Kimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together
Notably Stop-Loss
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Taking Woodstock
John Carpenter
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ward
Liz W. Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lifeguard
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together
Notably Cake
Jonathan Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Ricki and the Flash
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CakeAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Taking WoodstockKimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stop-LossMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeartburnJonathan Demme
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ricki and the FlashJohn Carpenter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WardLajos Koltai
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EveningLiz W. Garcia
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 LifeguardSix 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
Side Effects
as Kayla
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Evening
as Lila Wittenborn
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Side Effects
as Kayla
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stop-Loss
as Jeanie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Side Effects
as Kayla
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. Mamie Gummer 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
39 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
9 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
Side Effects
as Kayla
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Side Effects
as Kayla
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Evening
as Lila Wittenborn
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Out of Blue
as Jennifer Rockwell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Side Effects
as Kayla
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Side Effects
as Kayla
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Taking Woodstock
as Tisha
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Ward
as Emily
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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