Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5923
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nina Arianda 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.
Nina Arianda appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nina. Midnight in Paris is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 western, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Potsy Ponciroli, Christopher McCulloch, Aaron Sorkin and others, Nina Arianda 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.
Midnight in Paris (2011) as Carol · Richard Jewell (2019) as Nadya · The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023) as Mantilla (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5923 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Midnight in Paris
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Midnight in Paris
Most frequent director
Potsy Ponciroli
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Potsy Ponciroli
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Richard Jewell, Stan & Ollie, Florence Foster Jenkins — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Richard Jewell, Stan & Ollie, Florence Foster Jenkins.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 6.58 films | 6.82 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.55 films | 6.31 film |
| Crime | 6.82 films | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 7.03 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Tower Heist
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miss Iovenko.
Highest rated performance
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019Richard Jewell
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026You Can't Win
The current state of the argument, as Mrs. Alexander.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Nadya
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Mantilla (voice)
Directed by Christopher McCulloch
as Carol
Directed by Woody Allen
as Ida Kitaeva Laurel
Directed by Jon S. Baird
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
Nadya
Richard Jewell (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nadya gives Nina Arianda a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mantilla (voice)
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
Performance score7.4
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mantilla (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jen
Bang Bang (2025)
Performance score7.3
Bang Bang asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carol
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Performance score7.3
Midnight in Paris asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carol 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 Nadya
Start here. Richard Jewell is the clearest statement of what Nina Arianda does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nina 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.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Richard Jewell — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Midnight in Paris but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Stan & Ollie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bang Bang (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Midnight in Paris
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Tower Heist
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Humbling
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably Florence Foster Jenkins
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Stan & Ollie
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Richard Jewell
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Being the Ricardos
Christopher McCulloch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together
Notably Greedy People
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Midnight in ParisClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Richard JewellChristopher McCulloch
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 Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon HeartJon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stan & OllieStephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Florence Foster JenkinsAaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being the RicardosPotsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Greedy PeopleBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tower HeistBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HumblingSix 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
Richard Jewell
as Nadya
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Alexis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Midnight in Paris
as Carol
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Midnight in Paris
as Carol
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Richard Jewell
as Nadya
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. Nina Arianda 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Midnight in Paris
as Carol
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Richard Jewell
as Nadya
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Alexis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Greedy People
as Deborah
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Mantilla (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Mantilla (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stan & Ollie
as Ida Kitaeva Laurel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Agnes Stark
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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