Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1329
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vivica A. Fox represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 37 years in, and Vivica is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Vivica A. Fox appears in 41 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vivica. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 drama, thriller, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Scott Cavalheiro, Christopher Ray, Robert Krantz and others, Vivica A. Fox 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.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) as Vernita Green · Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) as Vernita Green 'Copperhead' · Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011) as Vernita Green (Copperhead)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1329 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
41
1989–2026
Career length
37 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Plan C
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Thriller
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.6
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. Born on the Fourth of July — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
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
1980s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Born on the Fourth of July.
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 | 7.01 film | — | — | 6.02 films | 6.311 films |
| Action | — | 5.92 films | 7.34 films | 6.23 films | 6.04 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.22 films | 6.33 films | 6.210 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.24 films | 6.22 films | 6.15 films |
| Crime | — | — | 8.12 films | 6.83 films | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | — | — | — | 6.22 films |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.31 film | 6.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1989Born on the Fourth of July
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hooker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.2 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.
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.
41 of 41 films
as Vernita Green
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Vernita Green (Copperhead)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Vernita Green 'Copperhead'
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Rita
Directed by Scott Cavalheiro
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
Vernita Green
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vernita Green gives Vivica A. Fox a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vernita Green (Copperhead)
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
Performance score8.1
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vernita Green (Copperhead) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vernita Green 'Copperhead'
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Performance score7.8
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vernita Green 'Copperhead' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Robin
The Wrong Baby Daddy (2026)
Performance score7.3
The Wrong Baby Daddy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Robin 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 Vernita Green
Start here. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is the clearest statement of what Vivica A. Fox does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vivica 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.
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.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
Same director as Kill Bill: Vol. 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Wrong Baby Daddy (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Plan C (2026)
Keeps the thriller register of The Wrong Baby Daddy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
3 films together
Notably Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together
Notably Independence Day
Christopher Ray
Director
2 films together
Notably 2nd Chance for Christmas
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Born on the Fourth of July
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman & Robin
Mort Nathan
Director
1 film together
Notably Boat Trip
Steve Loter
Director
1 film together
Notably Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably Ella Enchanted
Sheldon Lettich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hard Corps
Kevin Heffernan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Slammin' Salmon
Victor Cook
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
Clark Duke
Director
1 film together
Notably Arkansas
Robert Krantz
Director
1 film together
Notably A Marriage Made in Heaven
Scott Cavalheiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Plan C
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
3 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kill Bill: Vol. 1Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Independence DayChristopher Ray
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
2nd Chance for ChristmasVictor Cook
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo! Stage FrightOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Born on the Fourth of JulyTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ella EnchantedSteve Loter
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kim Possible: A Sitch in TimeScott Cavalheiro
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plan CSheldon Lettich
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 Hard CorpsRobert Krantz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Marriage Made in HeavenKevin Heffernan
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 Slammin' SalmonClark Duke
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArkansasMort Nathan
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boat TripJoel 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 & RobinSix 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
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
as Vernita Green 'Copperhead'
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Tooth Fairy Tale
as Opal (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
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
as Vernita Green
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Independence Day
as Jasmine Dubrow
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
as Vernita Green
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. Vivica A. Fox 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
37 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
as Vernita Green
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
as Vernita Green 'Copperhead'
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Tooth Fairy Tale
as Opal (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
as Lotte Lavoie (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
as Vernita Green
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Independence Day
as Jasmine Dubrow
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
as Future Monique (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Not Another Church Movie
as Judge Loreal
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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