Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4271
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Souheila Yacoub 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.
Souheila Yacoub appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Souheila. Dune: Part Two is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 comedy, horror, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Camille Chamoux, Sébastien Vaniček, Denis Villeneuve and others, Souheila Yacoub 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.
Dune: Part Two (2024) as Shishakli · Dune: Part Two (2024) as Shishakli · Rise (2022) as Sabrina
Career snapshot
Ranked #4271 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Dune: Part Two
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Dune: Part Two
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.2
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Climax — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Chamouxland : la reconstruction, Success, The Golden Age.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 5.65 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.44 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.01 film |
| Horror | 7.01 film | 4.84 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Climax
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lou.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Dune: Part Two
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2026Evil Dead Burn
The current state of the argument, as Alice.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Shishakli
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Shishakli
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Alice
Directed by Sébastien Vaniček
as Ruby
Directed by Noémie Merlant
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 11 of 11 titles · 11 total credits · active 2018–2026
Chamouxland : la reconstruction
2026 · Actor
Success
2026 · Self
The Golden Age
2026 · Jeanne Lavaur
Evil Dead Burn
2026 · Alice
The Carpenter's Son
2025 · Lilith
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Shishakli
The Balconettes
2024 · Ruby
Making Of
2024 · Nadia / Oudia
Rise
2022 · Sabrina
A Brighter Tomorrow
2021 · Sarah
Climax
2018 · Lou
The defining work
#1
Shishakli
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shishakli gives Souheila Yacoub a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shishakli
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score7.9
Dune: Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shishakli is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alice
Evil Dead Burn (2026)
Performance score7.4
Evil Dead Burn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lou
Climax (2018)
Performance score7.4
Climax asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lou 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 Shishakli
Start here. Dune: Part Two is the clearest statement of what Souheila Yacoub does — accessible, 166 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Souheila 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.
Climax (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Dune: Part Two but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Climax — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Balconettes (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Dune: Part Two — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Evil Dead Burn (2026)
Keeps the horror register of The Balconettes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Noémie Merlant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Balconettes
Sébastien Vaniček
Director
1 film together
Notably Evil Dead Burn
Camille Chamoux
Director
1 film together
Notably Chamouxland : la reconstruction
Timothée Chalamet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Zendaya
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Rebecca Ferguson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Javier Bardem
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Josh Brolin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Austin Butler
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Stellan Skarsgård
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Charlotte Rampling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dune: Part TwoSébastien Vaniček
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evil Dead BurnCamille Chamoux
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chamouxland : la reconstructionNoémie Merlant
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BalconettesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2025
Dune: Part Two
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Climax
as Lou
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Chamouxland : la reconstruction
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
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. Souheila Yacoub has known it for a long time.”
“Long live the fighters.”
“I will love you as long as I breathe.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #493 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Physical performance | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2024–2024 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Shishakli — Dune: Part Two | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Dune: Part Two | 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
Adventure Movies, Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Timothée Chalamet · Florence Pugh
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.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
6 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
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Golden Age
as Jeanne Lavaur
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dune: Part Two
as Shishakli
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Brighter Tomorrow
as Sarah
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 5 Nutevio collections
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