Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1218
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Olga Kurylenko 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.
Olga Kurylenko appears in 39 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Olga. Fox Hunt 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Stephen Warbeck, Jake Schreier, Claudio Fäh and others, Olga Kurylenko 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.
Fox Hunt (2025) as Ai Ersha · Thunderbolts* (2025) as Antonia Dreykov · Extraction 2 (2023) as Mia
Career snapshot
Ranked #1218 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
39
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Fox Hunt
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Fox Hunt
Most frequent director
Jesse V. Johnson
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jesse V. Johnson
Most common genre
Action
25 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.3
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Room, The Courier, The Translators — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Max Payne, Quantum of Solace, Hitman.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 | 6.13 films | 6.56 films | 5.35 films |
| Action | 6.03 films | 6.38 films | 6.514 films |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 6.24 films | 6.012 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.66 films | 4.54 films |
| Crime | 5.41 film | 6.33 films | 6.55 films |
| Romance | 6.81 film | 5.81 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film | 6.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Paris Je T'aime
Where our catalogue meets this career, as La vampire (Quartier de la Madeleine).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Fox Hunt
7.5 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, as Dr. Shaw.
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.
39 of 39 films
as Jane Andersen
Directed by Fred Grivois
as Antonia Dreykov
Directed by Jake Schreier
as Mia
Directed by Sam Hargrave
as Moira
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Ai Ersha
Fox Hunt (2025)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ai Ersha gives Olga Kurylenko a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jane Andersen
15 Minutes of War (2019)
Performance score7.4
15 Minutes of War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jane Andersen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Antonia Dreykov
Thunderbolts* (2025)
Performance score7.2
Thunderbolts* asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antonia Dreykov is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mia
Extraction 2 (2023)
Performance score7.2
Extraction 2 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 Ai Ersha
Start here. Fox Hunt is the clearest statement of what Olga Kurylenko does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Olga 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.
15 Minutes of War (2019)
Keeps the action register of Fox Hunt but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Princess (2022)
Keeps the action register of 15 Minutes of War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Extraction 2 (2023)
Keeps the action register of The Princess but asks for a colder reading of it.
Thunderbolts* (2025)
Keeps the action register of Extraction 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
3 films together
Notably Chief of Station
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Paris Je T'aime
Xavier Gens
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitman
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Quantum of Solace
Neil Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Centurion
Philipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together
Notably Erased
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Seven Psychopaths
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably To the Wonder
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Oblivion
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably The November Man
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Vampire Academy
Armando Iannucci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Stalin
David Kerr
Director
1 film together
Notably Johnny English Strikes Again
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Fred Grivois
Director
1 film together
Notably 15 Minutes of War
Julien Leclercq
Director
1 film together
Notably Sentinelle
Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Widow
Sam Hargrave
Director
1 film together
Notably Extraction 2
J.J. Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Afterburn
Claudio Fäh
Director
1 film together
Notably Turbulence
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolts*
Stephen Warbeck
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Urns
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
3 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Chief of StationJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolts*Sam Hargrave
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extraction 2Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black WidowArmando Iannucci
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of StalinFred Grivois
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
15 Minutes of WarMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seven PsychopathsJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paris Je T'aimeTerry Gilliam
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man Who Killed Don QuixoteJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OblivionClaudio Fäh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TurbulenceJ.J. Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AfterburnDavid Kerr
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Johnny English Strikes AgainMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vampire AcademyMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quantum of SolaceNeil Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CenturionXavier Gens
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HitmanRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The November ManPhilipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ErasedJulien Leclercq
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SentinelleTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To the WonderStephen Warbeck
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three UrnsSix 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
Thunderbolts*
as Antonia Dreykov
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Paris Je T'aime
as La vampire (Quartier de la 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
Fox Hunt
as Ai Ersha
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Paris Je T'aime
as La vampire (Quartier de la Madeleine)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fox Hunt
as Ai Ersha
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. Olga Kurylenko 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
20 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
25 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
Fox Hunt
as Ai Ersha
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fox Hunt
as Ai Ersha
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
To the Wonder
as Marina
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Translators
as Katerina Anisinova
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Thunderbolts*
as Antonia Dreykov
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Thunderbolts*
as Antonia Dreykov
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Perfect Day
as Katya
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Black Widow
as Antonia / Taskmaster
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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