Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#758
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Uma Thurman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 38 years in, and Uma is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Uma Thurman appears in 48 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Uma. 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 documentary, action, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Mullen, Vicky Jewson, Victoria Mahoney and others, Uma Thurman 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 Mia Wallace · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Mia Wallace · The King of Kings (2025) as Catherine Dickens (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #758 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
48
1988–2026
Career length
38 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Pulp Fiction
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Pulp Fiction
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.9
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
1980s
7.0 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Dangerous Liaisons, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.1
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. Sweet and Lowdown, Les Misérables, The Avengers.
Most productive era
1990s
14 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 | 7.11 film | 6.89 films | 6.34 films | 5.83 films | 2.92 films |
| Action | — | 5.03 films | 7.53 films | 7.81 film | 6.33 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.34 films | 6.83 films | 5.61 film | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 6.56 films | 5.75 films | 4.83 films | 6.74 films |
| Crime | — | 7.45 films | 7.33 films | 5.82 films | 6.12 films |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.27 films | 5.74 films | 5.52 films | 7.22 films |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.61 film | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cécile de Volanges.
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
2026Pretty Lethal
The current state of the argument, as Devora Kasimer.
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.
48 of 48 films
as Mia Wallace
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Mia Wallace
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride / 'Black Mamba' / Mommy
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Catherine Dickens (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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 55 titles · 57 total credits · active 1988–2026
Countdown: Rousey vs. Carano
2026 · Narrator (voice)
Pretty Lethal
2026 · Devora Kasimer
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
2026 · TV · Self
The Old Guard 2
2025 · Discord
The King of Kings
2025 · Catherine Dickens (voice)
The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge
2025 · The Bride (voice)
Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Megadoc
2025 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · TV · Charley
Oh, Canada
2024 · Emma / Gloria
The Future of Nature
2024 · TV · Narrator
Red, White & Royal Blue
2023 · Ellen Claremont
The Kill Room
2023 · Patrice · Producer
Hollywood Stargirl
2022 · Roxanne Martel
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022 · Arianna Huffington
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022 · TV · Arianna Huffington
Suspicion
2022 · TV · Katherine Newman
The War with Grandpa
2020 · Sally
Chambers
2019 · TV · Nancy Lefevre
Down a Dark Hall
2018 · Madame Duret
The Con Is On
2018 · Harriet Fox
Imposters
2017 · TV · Lenny Cohen
Burnt
2015 · Simone
Movie 43
2013 · Fake Lois Lane (segment "Super Hero Speed Dating")
The defining work
#1
Mia Wallace
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mia Wallace gives Uma Thurman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Mia Wallace
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.8
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mia Wallace is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Bride
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Performance score8.7
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Bride is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride / 'Black Mamba' / Mommy
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Performance score8.6
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beatrix Kiddo / The Bride / 'Black Mamba' / Mommy 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 Mia Wallace
Start here. Pulp Fiction is the clearest statement of what Uma Thurman 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 Uma 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.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Same director as Kill Bill: Vol. 1, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The King of Kings (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Kill Bill: Vol. 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
6 films together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Tim Mullen
Director
2 films together
Notably Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably Dangerous Liaisons
Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Henry & June
John Irvin
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood
Bruce Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer Eight
Phil Joanou
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Analysis
John McNaughton
Director
1 film together
Notably Mad Dog and Glory
Michael Lehmann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Ted Demme
Director
1 film together
Notably Beautiful Girls
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman & Robin
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Gattaca
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together
Notably The Avengers
Bille August
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet and Lowdown
Roland Joffé
Director
1 film together
Notably Vatel
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Tape
John Woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Paycheck
Susan Stroman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Producers
Ben Younger
Director
1 film together
Notably Prime
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Be Cool
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Griffin Dunne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Accidental Husband
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Gabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together
Notably Playing for Keeps
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
John Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Burnt
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Down a Dark Hall
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The War with Grandpa
Nicol Paone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kill Room
Matthew López
Director
1 film together
Notably Red, White & Royal Blue
Paul Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably Oh, Canada
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Megadoc
Victoria Mahoney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Old Guard 2
Vicky Jewson
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty Lethal
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
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
Rosanna Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
6 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pulp FictionTim Mullen
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Countdown: Taylor vs. SerranoMatthew López
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red, White & Royal BlueAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GattacaStephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dangerous LiaisonsBille August
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesTerry Gilliam
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 Adventures of Baron MunchausenRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TapeVicky Jewson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty LethalWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet and LowdownTed Demme
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beautiful GirlsMike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegadocJohn 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
BurntTim Hill
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 War with GrandpaChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefSusan Stroman
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 ProducersJohn Woo
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaycheckRoland Joffé
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VatelMichael Lehmann
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Truth About Cats & DogsBruce Robinson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer EightBen Younger
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PrimeJohn McNaughton
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mad Dog and GloryPhilip Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Henry & JuneVictoria Mahoney
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 Old Guard 2Nicol Paone
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 Kill RoomPhil Joanou
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final AnalysisJohn Irvin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin HoodPaul Schrader
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Oh, CanadaGabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Playing for KeepsRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Down a Dark HallGriffin Dunne
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Accidental HusbandF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Be CoolIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Super Ex-GirlfriendBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman & RobinJeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AvengersSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Uma Thurman
Where this journey starts
Director
Quentin Tarantino
6 collaborations, averaging 8.0
Film
Pulp Fiction
Their highest-rated film together (1994)
Performer
Christopher Walken
Shares the frame in Pulp Fiction
Film
Dune: Part Two
Where Christopher goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Dave Bautista
Three steps from where you began
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 Mia Wallace
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 King of Kings
as Catherine Dickens (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
Pulp Fiction
as Mia Wallace
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Megadoc
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pulp Fiction
as Mia Wallace
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. Uma Thurman 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 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #437 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 | Quiet performance, Drama, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Mia Wallace — 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
38 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
19 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 Mia Wallace
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pulp Fiction
as Mia Wallace
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The King of Kings
as Catherine Dickens (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Down a Dark Hall
as Madame Duret
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pulp Fiction
as Mia Wallace
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Paycheck
as Rachel Porter
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mad Dog and Glory
as Glory
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Batman & Robin
as Poison Ivy / Dr. Pamela Isley
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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