Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13560
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Zosia Mamet 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.
Zosia Mamet appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Zosia. Trolls Band Together is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matthew Shear, SJ Clarkson, Walt Dohrn and others, Zosia Mamet 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.
Trolls Band Together (2023) as Crimp (voice) · The Kids Are All Right (2010) as Sasha · Under the Silver Lake (2018) as Troy
Career snapshot
Ranked #13560 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Trolls Band Together
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Trolls Band Together
Most frequent director
Matthew Shear
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Matthew Shear
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.3
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Under the Silver Lake, The Kids Are All Right, Greenberg — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Spartan.
Most productive era
2020s
4 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 6.33 films | 5.72 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | — | 5.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.32 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.31 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.91 film | 5.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Spartan
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bedouin Woman.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2026Fantasy Life
The current state of the argument, as Jenny.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Crimp (voice)
Directed by Walt Dohrn
as Jenny
Directed by Matthew Shear
as Amaria
Directed by SJ Clarkson
as Margaret
Directed by Katie Holmes
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
Crimp (voice)
Trolls Band Together (2023)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Crimp (voice) gives Zosia Mamet a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sasha
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Performance score6.6
The Kids Are All Right asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sasha is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jenny
Fantasy Life (2026)
Performance score6.5
Fantasy Life asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jenny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amaria
Madame Web (2024)
Performance score6.5
Madame Web asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amaria 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 Crimp (voice)
Start here. Trolls Band Together is the clearest statement of what Zosia Mamet does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Zosia 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 Kids Are All Right (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Trolls Band Together but asks for a colder reading of it.
Alone Together (2022)
Keeps the drama register of The Kids Are All Right but asks for a colder reading of it.
Madame Web (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Alone Together — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fantasy Life (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Madame Web — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Mamet
Director
1 film together
Notably Spartan
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Greenberg
Lisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kids Are All Right
David Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Under the Silver Lake
Katie Holmes
Director
1 film together
Notably Alone Together
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together
Notably Trolls Band Together
SJ Clarkson
Director
1 film together
Notably Madame Web
Matthew Shear
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantasy Life
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Walt Dohrn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trolls Band TogetherLisa Cholodenko
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 Kids Are All RightDavid Robert Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Under the Silver LakeMatthew Shear
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantasy LifeDavid Mamet
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpartanNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GreenbergSJ Clarkson
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Madame WebKatie Holmes
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alone TogetherSix 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
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (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
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (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
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Greenberg
as Guest (Sara's Party)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (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. Zosia Mamet 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
22 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
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
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Under the Silver Lake
as Troy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Under the Silver Lake
as Troy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spartan
as Bedouin Woman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Trolls Band Together
as Crimp (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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