Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2745
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wunmi Mosaku 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.
Wunmi Mosaku appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wunmi. Sinners is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Aaron Sorkin, Ryan Coogler, Shawn Levy and others, Wunmi Mosaku 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.
Sinners (2025) as Annie · Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as B-15 · Sinners (2025) as Annie
Career snapshot
Ranked #2745 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Sinners
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Sinners
Most frequent director
Ryan Coogler
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ryan Coogler
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.4
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Sweetness in the Belly, Goldfish, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Sweetness in the Belly, Goldfish, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 6.32 films | 5.45 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | 7.72 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.33 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.81 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 5.61 film |
| Horror | — | 7.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Womb
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Erica.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Sinners
8.7 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, as Raya.
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 Annie
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Annie
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as B-15
Directed by Shawn Levy
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 24 titles · 24 total credits · active 2010–2026
The Social Reckoning
2026 · Raya
Sinners
2025 · Annie
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · B-15
Batman: Caped Crusader
2024 · TV · Dr. Roxane Sutton (voice)
Passenger
2024 · TV · Riya Ajunwa
Boarders
2024 · TV · Grace
Scavengers Reign
2023 · TV · Azi (voice)
Alice, Darling
2022 · Sophie
Call Jane
2022 · Gwen
We Own This City
2022 · TV · Nicole Steele
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · Hunter B-15 (archive footage)
Loki
2021 · TV · Hunter B-15
His House
2020 · Rial Majur
Lovecraft Country
2020 · TV · Ruby Baptiste
Sweetness in the Belly
2019 · Amina Mergessa
Goldfish
2019 · MUM
The End of the F***ing World
2017 · TV · DC Teri Darego
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Beryl
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016 · Kahina Ziri
In the Flesh
2013 · TV · Maxine Martin
Vera
2011 · TV · DC Holly Lawson
Black Mirror
2011 · TV · Katie
Womb
2010 · Erica
Luther
2010 · TV · Catherine Halliday
The defining work
#1
Annie
Sinners (2025)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Annie gives Wunmi Mosaku a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Annie
Sinners (2025)
Performance score7.7
Sinners asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Annie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
B-15
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. B-15 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
MUM
Goldfish (2019)
Performance score7.2
Goldfish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. MUM 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 Annie
Start here. Sinners is the clearest statement of what Wunmi Mosaku does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Wunmi 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.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Sinners — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Goldfish (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Goldfish — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sinners (2025)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool & Wolverine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together
Notably Sinners
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
David Yates
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Mary Nighy
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice, Darling
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
Aaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Social Reckoning
Michael B. Jordan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Hailee Steinfeld
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Miles Caton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jack O'Connell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jayme Lawson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Omar Benson Miller
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Delroy Lindo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Li Jun Li
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Yao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Lola Kirke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Peter Dreimanis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Buddy Guy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SinnersShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineDavid Yates
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeMary Nighy
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice, DarlingAaron Sorkin
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Social ReckoningSix 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
Sinners
as Annie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Call Jane
as Gwen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sinners
as Annie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
as Beryl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sinners
as Annie
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. Wunmi Mosaku has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.8 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #589 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.7 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Ryan Coogler | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2025–2025 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Annie — Sinners | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Sinners | 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
Thriller 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.
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
7 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
Sinners
as Annie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sinners
as Annie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alice, Darling
as Sophie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
as Beryl
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool & Wolverine
as B-15
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Kahina Ziri
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Call Jane
as Gwen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sinners
as Annie
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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