Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2640
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rosanna Arquette represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 41 years in, and Rosanna is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rosanna Arquette appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rosanna. Pulp Fiction is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 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, music, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eleanor Coppola, So Yong Kim, Ivan Reitman and others, Rosanna Arquette 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.
Pulp Fiction (1994) as Jody · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Jody · Succubus (2024) as Denise
Career snapshot
Ranked #2640 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
1985–2026
Career length
41 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Pulp Fiction
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Pulp Fiction
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
7.2
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
1990s
7.1 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Hope Floats, Gone Fishin', Pulp Fiction — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
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
1990s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Hope Floats, Gone Fishin', Pulp Fiction.
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.04 films | 7.43 films | — | 5.76 films | 5.42 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | 6.51 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.51 film | 7.62 films | — | — | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 6.73 films | 6.12 films | 5.81 film | 5.33 films |
| Crime | — | 8.92 films | 6.51 film | — | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 6.41 film | — | 5.33 films | 4.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1985Silverado
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hannah.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1994Pulp Fiction
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 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 Debra.
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.
28 of 28 films
as Jody
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Jody
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Johana Baker
Directed by Luc Besson
as Marcy
Directed by Martin Scorsese
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 35 titles · 35 total credits · active 1985–2026
The Moment
2026 · Tammy
Corporate Retreat
2026 · Debra
Succubus
2024 · Denise
Presumed Innocent
2024 · TV · Kate
Florida Man
2023 · TV · Rose
Paul T. Goldman
2023 · TV · Genevieve
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · Self
Love Is Love Is Love
2021 · Anne (segment "Late Lunch")
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
2020 · Self
Ratched
2020 · TV · Anna
Hal
2019 · Self
Untouchable
2019 · Self
Holy Lands
2019 · Monica
Billionaire Boys Club
2018 · Sydney's Mom
SPF-18
2017 · Faye Cooper
Lovesong
2017 · Eleanor
Draft Day
2014 · Angie
Ray Donovan
2013 · TV · Linda
Girls
2012 · TV · Petula
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
2011 · Darcy
Battle for Terra
2007 · Professor Lina (voice)
The L Word
2004 · TV · Cherie Jaffe
Joe Dirt
2001 · Charlene the Gator Farmer (uncredited)
The defining work
#1
Jody
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jody gives Rosanna Arquette a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jody
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.4
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jody is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Denise
Succubus (2024)
Performance score8.2
Succubus asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Denise is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Johana Baker
The Big Blue (1988)
Performance score7.9
The Big Blue asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Johana Baker 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 Jody
Start here. Pulp Fiction is the clearest statement of what Rosanna Arquette does — accessible, 154 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rosanna 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.
After Hours (1985)
Keeps the drama register of Pulp Fiction but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Big Blue (1988)
Keeps the drama register of After Hours but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A deliberate change of key after The Big Blue — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Succubus (2024)
Keeps the thriller register of Pulp Fiction but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
2 films together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably After Hours
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Silverado
Robert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Amazon Women on the Moon
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Blue
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably New York Stories
Robert Harmon
Director
1 film together
Notably Nowhere to Run
Christopher Cain
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone Fishin'
Forest Whitaker
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope Floats
Jonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Nine Yards
Dennie Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Joe Dirt
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Draft Day
So Yong Kim
Director
1 film together
Notably Lovesong
Eleanor Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Love Is Love Is Love
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Ving Rhames
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Eric Stoltz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Tim Roth
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Amanda Plummer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
2 films together · 8.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pulp FictionMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After HoursLuc Besson
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 Big BlueLawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SilveradoIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Draft DayJonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Whole Nine YardsRobert Harmon
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nowhere to RunForest Whitaker
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hope FloatsFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York StoriesRobert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amazon Women on the MoonBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peace, Love & MisunderstandingSo Yong Kim
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LovesongDennie Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joe DirtChristopher Cain
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gone Fishin'Eleanor Coppola
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love Is Love Is LoveSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 1995
Pulp Fiction
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
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 Big Blue
as Johana Baker
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
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. Rosanna Arquette has known it for a long time.”
“They call it a Royale with cheese.”
“English, motherf—er, do you speak it?”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #325 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Quentin Tarantino | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Jody — Pulp Fiction | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Pulp Fiction | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Top 250 Movies of All Time, Crime Movies, Top 100 Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
41 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
15 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
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
SPF-18
as Faye Cooper
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Silverado
as Hannah
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pulp Fiction
as Jody
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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