Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4401
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mary Holland 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.
Mary Holland appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mary. Sunday Dinner is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 romance, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Will Sterling, Jake Johnson, Marielle Heller and others, Mary Holland 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.
Sunday Dinner (2021) as Bobbie · Happiest Season (2020) as Jane · Greener Grass (2019) as Kim Ann
Career snapshot
Ranked #4401 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Sunday Dinner
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Sunday Dinner
Most frequent director
Jake Szymanski
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jake Szymanski
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.1
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
6.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Greener Grass, The Package — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.0
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. Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Greener Grass, The Package.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | — | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.04 films | 4.89 films |
| Romance | — | 6.02 films |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Becky.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Sunday Dinner
8.0 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
2026That Friend
The current state of the argument, as Michelle.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Jane
Directed by Clea DuVall
as Barb from Statistics
Directed by Unknown
as Michelle
Directed by Will Sterling
as Amy
Directed by Jake Johnson
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
Bobbie
Sunday Dinner (2021)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bobbie gives Mary Holland a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jane
Happiest Season (2020)
Performance score7.2
Happiest Season asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jane is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barb from Statistics
You're Dating a Narcissist! (2026)
Performance score6.5
You're Dating a Narcissist! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barb from Statistics is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Michelle
That Friend (2026)
Performance score6.5
That Friend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michelle 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 Bobbie
Start here. Sunday Dinner is the clearest statement of what Mary Holland does — accessible, 14 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mary 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.
Happiest Season (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Sunday Dinner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Self Reliance (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Happiest Season but asks for a colder reading of it.
You're Dating a Narcissist! (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Self Reliance but asks for a colder reading of it.
That Friend (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of You're Dating a Narcissist! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Szymanski
Director
2 films together
Notably Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Jocelyn DeBoer
Director
1 film together
Notably Greener Grass
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Clea DuVall
Director
1 film together
Notably Happiest Season
Jessica Brunetto
Director
1 film together
Notably Sisters
Alex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together
Notably Senior Year
John Slattery
Director
1 film together
Notably Maggie Moore(s)
Marielle Heller
Director
1 film together
Notably Nightbitch
Jake Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Self Reliance
Will Sterling
Director
1 film together
Notably That Friend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Szymanski
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mike and Dave Need Wedding DatesClea DuVall
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happiest SeasonJocelyn DeBoer
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Greener GrassJake Johnson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Self RelianceAlex Hardcastle
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Senior YearScott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieJohn Slattery
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maggie Moore(s)Marielle Heller
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NightbitchWill Sterling
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That FriendJessica Brunetto
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SistersSix 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
Happiest Season
as Jane
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Happiest Season
as Jane
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Gerri Plop
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
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. Mary Holland 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 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
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Happiest Season
as Jane
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Maggie Moore(s)
as Maggie Lee Moore
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sunday Dinner
as Bobbie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Happiest Season
as Jane
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Becky
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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