Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#46674
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Nora Fatehi 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.
Nora Fatehi appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nora. Bāhubali: The Beginning 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 action, fantasy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aditya Sarpotdar, Remo D'Souza, Kunal Khemu and others, Nora Fatehi 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.
Bāhubali: The Beginning (2015) as Dancer · KD – The Devil (2026) · Marjaavaan (2019) as Special Appearance in "Ek Toh Kum Zindagani" Song
Career snapshot
Ranked #46674 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Bāhubali: The Beginning
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Bāhubali: The Beginning
Most frequent director
Remo D'Souza
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Remo D'Souza
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
2h 10m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Marjaavaan, Bharat, Bāhubali: The Beginning — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Marjaavaan, Bharat, Bāhubali: The Beginning.
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 | 6.82 films | 6.24 films |
| Action | 6.93 films | 4.85 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 4.84 films |
| Crime | — | 6.22 films |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dancer. 7.6 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
2026Jailer 2
The current state of the argument, as Special Appearance.
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.
12 of 12 films
Directed by Unknown
as Maggie
Directed by Remo D'Souza
as Special Appearance in "Ek Toh Kum Zindagani" Song
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Dancer
Bāhubali: The Beginning (2015)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dancer gives Nora Fatehi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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KD – The Devil
KD – The Devil (2026)
Performance score7.3
KD – The Devil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maggie
Be Happy (2025)
Performance score7.0
Be Happy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maggie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mia
Street Dancer 3D (2020)
Performance score7.0
Street Dancer 3D asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mia 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 Dancer
Start here. Bāhubali: The Beginning is the clearest statement of what Nora Fatehi does — accessible, 159 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nora 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.
Marjaavaan (2019)
Keeps the action register of Bāhubali: The Beginning but asks for a colder reading of it.
Street Dancer 3D (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Marjaavaan — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Be Happy (2025)
Same director as Street Dancer 3D, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
KD – The Devil (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Be Happy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Remo D'Souza
Director
2 films together
Notably Street Dancer 3D
S. S. Rajamouli
Director
1 film together
Notably Bāhubali: The Beginning
Kunal Khemu
Director
1 film together
Notably Madgaon Express
Aditya Sarpotdar
Director
1 film together
Notably Thamma
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Remo D'Souza
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Street Dancer 3DS. S. Rajamouli
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bāhubali: The BeginningAditya Sarpotdar
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThammaKunal Khemu
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Madgaon ExpressSix 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
KD – The Devil
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Be Happy
as Maggie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
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. Nora Fatehi 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 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
KD – The Devil
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
KD – The Devil
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Be Happy
as Maggie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
KD – The Devil
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Be Happy
as Maggie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bāhubali: The Beginning
as Dancer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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