Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3702
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Marin Ireland 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.
Marin Ireland appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Marin. I Am Legend is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 comedy, drama, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Storer, Celine Song, Rob Savage and others, Marin Ireland 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.
I Am Legend (2007) as Woman Evacuee · Hell or High Water (2016) as Debbie Howard · Revolutionary Road (2008) as Party Guest
Career snapshot
Ranked #3702 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
I Am Legend
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Hell or High Water
Most frequent director
Christopher Storer
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Christopher Storer
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
2000s
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Revolutionary Road, I Am Legend, The Manchurian Candidate — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Revolutionary Road, I Am Legend, The Manchurian Candidate.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.03 films | 6.75 films | 3.95 films |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | 6.32 films | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.32 films | 3.32 films |
| Crime | — | 7.02 films | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.41 film | 6.41 film |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | 6.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Army Transcriber.
Highest rated performance
2007I Am Legend
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Anima
The current state of the argument, as Mikaela.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Debbie Howard
Directed by David Mackenzie
as Woman Evacuee
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Dr. Rose Casper
Directed by Unknown
as Sherri
Directed by Christopher Storer
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
Debbie Howard
Hell or High Water (2016)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Debbie Howard gives Marin Ireland a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Woman Evacuee
I Am Legend (2007)
Performance score7.2
I Am Legend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Woman Evacuee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Rose Casper
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
Performance score7.1
Birth/Rebirth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Rose Casper is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sherri
Gary (2026)
Performance score7.0
Gary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sherri 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 Debbie Howard
Start here. Hell or High Water is the clearest statement of what Marin Ireland does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Marin 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.
I Am Legend (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Hell or High Water but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
A deliberate change of key after I Am Legend — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
Same director as The Dark and the Wicked, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Gary (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Birth/Rebirth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jonathan Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably The Manchurian Candidate
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably I Am Legend
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolutionary Road
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope Springs
Jason Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Family Fang
David Mackenzie
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell or High Water
Desiree Akhavan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Miseducation of Cameron Post
David Prior
Director
1 film together
Notably The Empty Man
Audrey Rosenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Animals
William Oldroyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Eileen
Rob Savage
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boogeyman
Celine Song
Director
1 film together
Notably Materialists
Christopher Storer
Director
1 film together
Notably Gary
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Am LegendDavid Mackenzie
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell or High WaterSam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Revolutionary RoadDesiree Akhavan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Miseducation of Cameron PostJonathan Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Manchurian CandidateChristopher Storer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GaryRob Savage
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BoogeymanCeline Song
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaterialistsDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hope SpringsDavid Prior
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Empty ManJason Bateman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Family FangWilliam Oldroyd
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EileenAudrey Rosenberg
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild AnimalsSix 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
I Am Legend
as Woman Evacuee
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Revolutionary Road
as Party Guest
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
I Am Legend
as Woman Evacuee
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Manchurian Candidate
as Army Transcriber
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hell or High Water
as Debbie Howard
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. Marin Ireland 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
22 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
13 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
I Am Legend
as Woman Evacuee
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Side Effects
as Upset Visitor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Materialists
as Violet
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Manchurian Candidate
as Army Transcriber
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hell or High Water
as Debbie Howard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hell or High Water
as Debbie Howard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hope Springs
as Molly, Their Daughter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Man in the Woods
as Louise Roethke
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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