Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3609
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Taissa Farmiga 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.
Taissa Farmiga appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Taissa. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 horror, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Chaves, Matt Peters, Stacie Passon and others, Taissa Farmiga 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.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice) · Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe (2020) as Self · Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016) as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3609 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2013–2023
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Most frequent director
Michael Chaves
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Chaves
Most common genre
Horror
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Nun II, John and the Hole, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Nun, The Mule.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 6.14 films | 5.41 film |
| Action | 6.72 films | 7.91 film |
| Thriller | 6.22 films | 5.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.23 films | — |
| Crime | 6.22 films | — |
| Romance | 6.02 films | — |
| Horror | 6.22 films | 6.43 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013The Bling Ring
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sam.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
7.9 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
2023The Nun II
The current state of the argument, as Sister Irene.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Directed by Sam Liu
as Sister Irene
Directed by Michael Chaves
as Max Cartwright
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
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
Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rachel Roth / Raven (voice) gives Taissa Farmiga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Performance score7.6
Justice League vs. Teen Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rachel Roth / Raven (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sister Irene
The Nun II (2023)
Performance score7.3
The Nun II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sister Irene is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe (2020)
Performance score7.2
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Start here. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest statement of what Taissa Farmiga does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Taissa 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.
The Final Girls (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Justice League Dark: Apokolips War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Final Girls — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Justice League vs. Teen Titans — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Nun II (2023)
Keeps the horror register of Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bling Ring
Todd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Final Girls
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Rules Don't Apply
Ti West
Director
1 film together
Notably In a Valley of Violence
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League vs. Teen Titans
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mule
Corin Hardy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nun
Stacie Passon
Director
1 film together
Notably We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Michael Chaves
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nun II
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League Dark: Apokolips WarSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League vs. Teen TitansClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MuleMichael Chaves
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nun IITodd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Final GirlsTi West
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In a Valley of ViolenceCorin Hardy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The NunWarren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rules Don't ApplyStacie Passon
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Have Always Lived in the CastleSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bling RingSix 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Rules Don't Apply
as Sarah Bransford
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
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. Taissa Farmiga 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in horror, 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rules Don't Apply
as Sarah Bransford
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
as Merricat Blackwood
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as Rachel Roth / Raven (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rules Don't Apply
as Sarah Bransford
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Rules Don't Apply
as Sarah Bransford
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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