Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6944
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Naomi Scott 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.
Naomi Scott appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Naomi. In Vitro is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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, science fiction, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yaniv Raz, Josh Gordon, Parker Finn and others, Naomi Scott 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.
In Vitro (2020) as Female Narrator (voice) · The Martian (2015) as Ryoko · Aladdin (2019) as Jasmine
Career snapshot
Ranked #6944 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
In Vitro
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
In Vitro
Most frequent director
Yaniv Raz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yaniv Raz
Most common genre
Science Fiction
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.5
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Eternal Return, Long Distance, Smile 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Aladdin, Charlie's Angels, Power Rangers.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 7.22 films | 8.41 film |
| Action | 6.32 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015The Martian
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ryoko.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020In Vitro
8.4 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
2026Eternal Return
The current state of the argument, as Cass.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Female Narrator (voice)
Directed by Dacre Montgomery
as Ryoko
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Jasmine
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Skye Riley
Directed by Parker Finn
as Naomi Calloway
Directed by Josh Gordon
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
Female Narrator (voice)
In Vitro (2020)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Female Narrator (voice) gives Naomi Scott a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ryoko
The Martian (2015)
Performance score7.7
The Martian asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryoko is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jasmine
Aladdin (2019)
Performance score7.5
Aladdin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jasmine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Skye Riley
Smile 2 (2024)
Performance score7.3
Smile 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skye Riley 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 Female Narrator (voice)
Start here. In Vitro is the clearest statement of what Naomi Scott does — accessible, 6 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Naomi 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 Martian (2015)
Keeps the drama register of In Vitro but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aladdin (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of The Martian but asks for a colder reading of it.
Smile 2 (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Aladdin — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Long Distance (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Smile 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Patricia Riggen
Director
1 film together
Notably The 33
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Martian
Dean Israelite
Director
1 film together
Notably Power Rangers
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Aladdin
Dacre Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably In Vitro
Parker Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Smile 2
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Long Distance
Yaniv Raz
Director
1 film together
Notably Eternal Return
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dacre Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In VitroRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MartianGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AladdinJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Long DistanceParker Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Smile 2Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsPatricia Riggen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 33Dean Israelite
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Power RangersYaniv Raz
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eternal ReturnSix 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
The Martian
as Ryoko
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Aladdin
as Jasmine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
In Vitro
as Female Narrator (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Martian
as Ryoko
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
In Vitro
as Female Narrator (voice)
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. Naomi Scott 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
In Vitro
as Female Narrator (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
In Vitro
as Female Narrator (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Aladdin
as Jasmine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Smile 2
as Skye Riley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
In Vitro
as Female Narrator (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Charlie's Angels
as Elena Houghlin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The 33
as Escarlette Sepúlveda
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Martian
as Ryoko
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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