Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4007
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Anne Lockhart represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Anne is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anne Lockhart appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anne. Tangled is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, history, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Landesman, Byron Howard, Rodrigo Cortés and others, Anne Lockhart 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.
Tangled (2010) as Additional Voices (voice) · E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) as Nurse (uncredited) · The Little Mermaid (1989) as Additional Voices (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4007 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1982–2013
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Tangled
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Tangled
Most frequent director
Byron Howard
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Byron Howard
Most common genre
Adventure
5 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
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
6.8
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
7.1 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. The Little Mermaid, Flesh + Blood, Risky Business — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films 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. The Little Mermaid, Flesh + Blood, Risky Business.
Most productive era
1980s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.11 film | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.51 film | 6.63 films | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | 6.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nurse (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2010Tangled
7.8 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
2013Parkland
The current state of the argument, as ER Nurse (uncredited).
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.
12 of 12 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
as Nurse (uncredited)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Disco Patron (uncredited)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
as CRT Operator (voice)
Directed by Rodrigo Cortés
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Tangled (2010)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Anne Lockhart a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nurse (uncredited)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Performance score7.5
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nurse (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Performance score7.3
The Little Mermaid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Disco Patron (uncredited)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Performance score7.0
Basic Instinct asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Disco Patron (uncredited) 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Tangled is the clearest statement of what Anne Lockhart does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anne 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.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Keeps the adventure register of Tangled but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Keeps the family register of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial but asks for a colder reading of it.
Basic Instinct (1992)
A deliberate change of key after The Little Mermaid — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Buried (2010)
Keeps the thriller register of Basic Instinct but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul Verhoeven
Director
2 films together
Notably Basic Instinct
Byron Howard
Director
2 films together
Notably Tangled
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Paul Brickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Risky Business
John Musker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Mermaid
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably City Slickers
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Complicated
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Buried
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parkland
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Byron Howard
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TangledPaul Verhoeven
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Basic InstinctSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialJohn Musker
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little MermaidRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BuriedPaul Brickman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Risky BusinessNancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's ComplicatedBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Osmosis JonesRon Underwood
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
City SlickersPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParklandSix 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
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Nurse (uncredited)
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 Little Mermaid
as Additional Voices (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
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Nurse (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
It's Complicated
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tangled
as Additional Voices (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. Anne Lockhart 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
31 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
The Little Mermaid
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Basic Instinct
as Disco Patron (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Little Mermaid
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Basic Instinct
as Disco Patron (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tangled
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Osmosis Jones
as Female Red Blood Cell (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Risky Business
as Babysitter (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tangled
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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