Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1753
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rachel Bloom 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.
Rachel Bloom appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rachel. Laughing Matters is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Frankel, Adam Shankman, John Rice and others, Rachel Bloom 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.
Laughing Matters (2019) as Self · Angry Birds: Live Stream (2019) as Silver · The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) as Talia
Career snapshot
Ranked #1753 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Laughing Matters
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Laughing Matters
Most frequent director
John Rice
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With John Rice
Most common genre
Comedy
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Changeland, Laughing Matters, Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Changeland, Laughing Matters, Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 5.61 film | 7.31 film |
| Action | 7.22 films | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.84 films | 5.511 films |
| Crime | 7.21 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Changeland
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vanessa.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Laughing Matters
8.0 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 Silver (voice).
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.
18 of 18 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Barb (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
as Barb (voice)
Directed by Sean Charmatz
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
Laughing Matters (2019)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Rachel Bloom a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Silver
Angry Birds: Live Stream (2019)
Performance score8.0
Angry Birds: Live Stream asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Silver is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Barb (voice)
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Performance score7.3
Trolls World Tour asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Barb (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Talia
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
Performance score7.2
The Devil Wears Prada 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Talia 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. Laughing Matters is the clearest statement of what Rachel Bloom does — accessible, 29 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rachel 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.
Angry Birds: Live Stream (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Laughing Matters — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Angry Birds: Live Stream but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trolls Holiday in Harmony (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls World Tour but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls Holiday in Harmony but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Rice
Director
2 films together
Notably Angry Birds: Live Stream
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Seth Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Changeland
Alejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together
Notably Pooka Lives!
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls World Tour
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Holiday in Harmony
David Silverman
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinct
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably The School for Good and Evil
Lara Everly
Director
1 film together
Notably Heritage Day
Aline Brosh McKenna
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Place or Mine
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Stop! That! Train!
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil Wears Prada 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Rice
Director
2 films together · 3.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Angry Birds: Live StreamDavid Frankel
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 Devil Wears Prada 2Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls World TourJake Castorena
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Holiday in HarmonyThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Paul Feig
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 School for Good and EvilAkiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue RangersAline Brosh McKenna
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Place or MineDavid Silverman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stop! That! Train!Alejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pooka Lives!Seth Green
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChangelandLara Everly
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heritage DaySix 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
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Talia
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Trolls World Tour
as Barb (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Laughing Matters
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Devil Wears Prada 2
as Talia
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Laughing Matters
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. Rachel Bloom 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
15 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
Laughing Matters
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Batgirl (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trolls World Tour
as Barb (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
as Various Characters (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Batgirl (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Batgirl (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls World Tour
as Barb (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Stop! That! Train!
as Donna Dusk
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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