Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2799
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sienna Miller 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.
Sienna Miller appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sienna. American Sniper is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andrew Bernstein, David O. Russell, Kristin Scott Thomas and others, Sienna Miller 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.
American Sniper (2014) as Taya Renae Kyle · Stardust (2007) as Victoria · Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) as Emma Marlowe
Career snapshot
Ranked #2799 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
American Sniper
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
American Sniper
Most frequent director
Kevin Costner
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kevin Costner
Most common genre
Drama
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Edge of Love, Stardust — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
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. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Edge of Love, Stardust.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.45 films | 6.38 films | 5.25 films |
| Action | 5.81 film | 6.83 films | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 6.43 films | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 5.73 films | 6.31 film |
| Crime | 6.91 film | 6.52 films | — |
| Romance | 6.54 films | 5.61 film | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Alfie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nikki.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014American Sniper
7.4 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
2026Madden
The current state of the argument, as Carol Davis.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Taya Renae Kyle
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Emma Marlowe
Directed by Andrew Bernstein
as Frances Kittredge
Directed by Kevin Costner
as Tammy
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as Frances Kittredge
Directed by Kevin Costner
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
Taya Renae Kyle
American Sniper (2014)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Taya Renae Kyle gives Sienna Miller a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Emma Marlowe
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026)
Performance score7.4
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emma Marlowe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frances Kittredge
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
Performance score7.4
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frances Kittredge is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tammy
Layer Cake (2004)
Performance score7.3
Layer Cake asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tammy 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 Taya Renae Kyle
Start here. American Sniper is the clearest statement of what Sienna Miller does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sienna 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.
Layer Cake (2004)
A deliberate change of key after American Sniper — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Layer Cake but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Same director as Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matthew Vaughn
Director
2 films together
Notably Stardust
Kevin Costner
Director
2 films together
Notably Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Charles Shyer
Director
1 film together
Notably Alfie
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Casanova
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Interview
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Edge of Love
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably A Case of You
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably American Sniper
Ben Wheatley
Director
1 film together
Notably High-Rise
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Mississippi Grind
John Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Burnt
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Live by Night
Ben Lewin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Catcher Was a Spy
Brian Kirk
Director
1 film together
Notably 21 Bridges
Tara Miele
Director
1 film together
Notably Wander Darkly
Kristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably My Mother's Wedding
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Madden
Andrew Bernstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matthew Vaughn
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
StardustKevin Costner
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American SniperAndrew Bernstein
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost WarBrian Kirk
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21 BridgesJohn Wells
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BurntLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CasanovaSteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InterviewKristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Mother's WeddingBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Live by NightBen Lewin
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Catcher Was a SpyJohn Maybury
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Edge of LoveTara Miele
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wander DarklyRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mississippi GrindCharles Shyer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlfieStephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
G.I. Joe: The Rise of CobraBen Wheatley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High-RiseKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Case of YouDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaddenSix 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
American Sniper
as Taya Renae Kyle
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardust
as Victoria
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
American Sniper
as Taya Renae Kyle
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stardust
as Victoria
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
American Sniper
as Taya Renae Kyle
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. Sienna Miller 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
22 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
18 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
Stardust
as Victoria
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
as Emma Marlowe
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wander Darkly
as Adrienne
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Layer Cake
as Tammy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
American Sniper
as Taya Renae Kyle
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
as Ana Lewis / Baroness
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Casanova
as Francesca
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Interview
as Katya
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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