Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9756
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Odeya Rush 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.
Odeya Rush appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Odeya. Lady Bird is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cooper Raiff, Kelly Oxford, Anne Fletcher and others, Odeya Rush 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.
Lady Bird (2017) as Jenna Walton · Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) as Macy · The Bachelors (2017) as Lacy Westman
Career snapshot
Ranked #9756 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Lady Bird
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Lady Bird
Most frequent director
Cooper Raiff
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Cooper Raiff
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.1
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Dear Dictator, Dumplin', Spinning Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Dear Dictator, Dumplin', Spinning Man.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.94 films | 4.33 films |
| Action | 5.71 film | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | 5.72 films | 5.22 films |
| Comedy | 6.65 films | 5.93 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 7.11 film |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 5.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014The Giver
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Fiona.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Lady Bird
7.3 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
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.
14 of 14 films
as Ellen Dryver
Directed by Anne Fletcher
as Jenna Walton
Directed by Greta Gerwig
as Lacy Westman
Directed by Unknown
as Hannah
Directed by Rob Letterman
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
Ellen Dryver
Dumplin' (2018)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ellen Dryver gives Odeya Rush a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jenna Walton
Lady Bird (2017)
Performance score7.2
Lady Bird asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jenna Walton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lacy Westman
The Bachelors (2017)
Performance score7.1
The Bachelors asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lacy Westman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Macy
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Performance score7.0
Cha Cha Real Smooth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Macy 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 Ellen Dryver
Start here. Dumplin' is the clearest statement of what Odeya Rush does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Odeya 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.
Goosebumps (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Dumplin' but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lady Bird (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Goosebumps but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bachelors (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Lady Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Keeps the romance register of The Bachelors but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably The Giver
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Goosebumps
Jonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunter's Prayer
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Bird
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumplin'
Kelly Oxford
Director
1 film together
Notably Pink Skies Ahead
Cooper Raiff
Director
1 film together
Notably Cha Cha Real Smooth
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady BirdCooper Raiff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cha Cha Real SmoothAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumplin'Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GiverRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoosebumpsKelly Oxford
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pink Skies AheadJonathan Mostow
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunter's PrayerSix 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
Cha Cha Real Smooth
as Macy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cha Cha Real Smooth
as Macy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Lady Bird
as Jenna Walton
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cha Cha Real Smooth
as Macy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dumplin'
as Ellen Dryver
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. Odeya Rush 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
Lady Bird
as Jenna Walton
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunter's Prayer
as Ella Hatto
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cha Cha Real Smooth
as Macy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Spinning Man
as Joyce Bonner
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Lady Bird
as Jenna Walton
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Isolate Thief
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Bachelors
as Lacy Westman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lady Bird
as Jenna Walton
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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