Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21723
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Miou-Miou represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 54 years in, and Miou-Miou is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Miou-Miou appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Miou-Miou. Patrick Dewaere, My Hero is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 comedy, drama, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeanne Herry, Christophe Douchand, Damiano Damiani and others, Miou-Miou 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.
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (2022) as Self (archive footage) - actress · All Your Faces (2023) as Sabine · Flash(s) (2023) as Claire
Career snapshot
Ranked #21723 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1973–2027
Career length
54 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Most frequent director
Jeanne Herry
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jeanne Herry
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.8
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
1970s
6.7 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 1970s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 4.64 films |
| Action | — | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 4.85 films |
| Crime | — | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1973The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Antoinette Pivert.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2027Secondes chances
The current state of the argument.
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 Self (archive footage) - actress
Directed by Unknown
as Claire
Directed by Christophe Douchand
as Alice Gauthier
Directed by Unknown
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
Self (archive footage) - actress
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (2022)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) - actress gives Miou-Miou a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Claire
Flash(s) (2023)
Performance score7.7
Flash(s) asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Claire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sabine
All Your Faces (2023)
Performance score7.2
All Your Faces asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sabine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Antoinette Pivert
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Performance score7.0
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antoinette Pivert 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 Self (archive footage) - actress
Start here. Patrick Dewaere, My Hero is the clearest statement of what Miou-Miou does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Miou-Miou 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.
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
A deliberate change of key after Patrick Dewaere, My Hero — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Flash(s) (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
All Your Faces (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Flash(s) — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Chers parents (2026)
A deliberate change of key after All Your Faces — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gérard Oury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Damiano Damiani
Director
1 film together
Notably A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Christophe Douchand
Director
1 film together
Notably Flash(s)
Jeanne Herry
Director
1 film together
Notably All Your Faces
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeanne Herry
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Your FacesChristophe Douchand
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flash(s)Gérard Oury
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi JacobDamiano Damiani
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Genius, Two Friends, and an IdiotSix 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
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
All Your Faces
as Sabine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
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. Miou-Miou 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
54 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
7 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
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
All Your Faces
as Sabine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Murder Party
as Joséphine
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self (archive footage) - actress
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Last Mercenary
as Marguerite
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Maestro(s)
as Hélène Dumar
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Last Mercenary
as Marguerite
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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