Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3790
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Naomie Harris 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.
Naomie Harris appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Naomie. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 documentary, mystery, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cat White, Guillem Morales, Mat Whitecross and others, Naomie Harris 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.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) as Tia Dalma · Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Tia Dalma · Moonlight (2016) as Paula
Career snapshot
Ranked #3790 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2002–2025
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Most frequent director
Andy Serkis
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andy Serkis
Most common genre
Action
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Street Kings, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Street Kings, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.52 films | 7.15 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | 6.85 films | 7.04 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 6.63 films | 6.73 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Crime | 6.33 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film | — |
| Horror | 7.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
200228 Days Later
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Selena. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025Black Bag
The current state of the argument, as Dr Zoe Vaughn.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Self
Directed by Mat Whitecross
as Selena
Directed by Danny Boyle
as Eve
Directed by Sam Mendes
as Tia Dalma
Directed by Gore Verbinski
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
The Sound of 007 (2022)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Naomie Harris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Selena
28 Days Later (2002)
Performance score7.6
28 Days Later asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Selena is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Poppy Turner
Swan Song (2021)
Performance score7.5
Swan Song asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Poppy Turner is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eve
Skyfall (2012)
Performance score7.4
Skyfall asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eve 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
Start here. The Sound of 007 is the clearest statement of what Naomie Harris does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Naomie 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.
28 Days Later (2002)
A deliberate change of key after The Sound of 007 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
A deliberate change of key after 28 Days Later — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Skyfall (2012)
Keeps the action register of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest but asks for a colder reading of it.
Swan Song (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Skyfall — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gore Verbinski
Director
2 films together
Notably Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Sam Mendes
Director
2 films together
Notably Skyfall
Andy Serkis
Director
2 films together
Notably Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Days Later
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably After the Sunset
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Miami Vice
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Street Kings
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Southpaw
Susanna White
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Kind of Traitor
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Collateral Beauty
Barry Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonlight
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Rampage
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Die
Mat Whitecross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sound of 007
Guillem Morales
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wasp
Cat White
Director
1 film together
Notably Swim Sistas
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gore Verbinski
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestSam Mendes
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SkyfallAndy Serkis
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Venom: Let There Be CarnageBarry Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoonlightAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SouthpawMat Whitecross
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sound of 007Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to DieDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Collateral BeautyDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Days LaterJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mandela: Long Walk to FreedomDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Street KingsBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RampageGuillem Morales
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 WaspBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After the SunsetSusanna White
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our Kind of TraitorMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miami ViceCat White
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Swim SistasSix 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
Southpaw
as Angela Rivera
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Collateral Beauty
as Madeleine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Tia Dalma
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Tia Dalma
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Sound of 007
as Self
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. Naomie Harris 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
23 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in action, 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
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Tia Dalma
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
No Time to Die
as Moneypenny
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Collateral Beauty
as Madeleine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Black Bag
as Dr Zoe Vaughn
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Tia Dalma
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Die
as Moneypenny
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
After the Sunset
as Sophie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Tia Dalma
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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