Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8546
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Addison Timlin 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.
Addison Timlin appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Addison. Odd Thomas is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for horror, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Larry Fessenden, Tom Gormican, Stephen Sommers and others, Addison Timlin 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.
Odd Thomas (2013) as Stormy Llewellyn · Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019) as Katie · Derailed (2005) as Amy Schine
Career snapshot
Ranked #8546 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2005–2024
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Odd Thomas
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Odd Thomas
Most frequent director
Larry Fessenden
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Larry Fessenden
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Derailed — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. Derailed.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.41 film | 6.13 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 6.33 films | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Derailed
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Amy Schine.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Odd Thomas
6.9 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
2024Cellar Door
The current state of the argument, as Alyssa.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Stormy Llewellyn
Directed by Stephen Sommers
as Alyssa
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.
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The defining work
#1
Stormy Llewellyn
Odd Thomas (2013)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stormy Llewellyn gives Addison Timlin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kat
Chasing You (2019)
Performance score6.8
Chasing You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kat is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pearla
All Roads to Pearla (2019)
Performance score6.7
All Roads to Pearla asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pearla is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Katie
Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019)
Performance score6.6
Feast of the Seven Fishes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katie 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 Stormy Llewellyn
Start here. Odd Thomas is the clearest statement of what Addison Timlin does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Addison 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.
Chasing You (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Odd Thomas — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
All Roads to Pearla (2019)
Same director as Chasing You, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019)
Same director as All Roads to Pearla, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Cellar Door (2024)
Same director as Feast of the Seven Fishes, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mikael Håfström
Director
1 film together
Notably Derailed
Fisher Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand Up Guys
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably Odd Thomas
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
Larry Fessenden
Director
1 film together
Notably Depraved
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Odd ThomasMikael Håfström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DerailedTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentFisher Stevens
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand Up GuysLarry Fessenden
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DepravedSix 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
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Feast of the Seven Fishes
as Katie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Derailed
as Amy Schine
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
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. Addison Timlin 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 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
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Feast of the Seven Fishes
as Katie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Odd Thomas
as Stormy Llewellyn
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stand Up Guys
as Alex
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stand Up Guys
as Alex
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Derailed
as Amy Schine
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
All Roads to Pearla
as Pearla
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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