Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#172473
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Anniston Almond works on quiet performance 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.
Anniston Almond appears in 2 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anniston. Blockers is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, screen presence, rewatchability. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, tv movie, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Close, Kay Cannon, Anniston Almond 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.
Blockers (2018) as 5-Year-Old Julie · Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays (2019) as Anna Ellis
Career snapshot
Ranked #172473 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
2
2018–2019
Career length
1 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
Blockers
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.3
Blockers
Most frequent director
Eric Close
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eric Close
Most common genre
Romance
1 title
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.1
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. Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays, Blockers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays, Blockers.
Most productive era
2010s
2 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 |
|---|---|
| Comedy | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Blockers
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 5-Year-Old Julie. 6.4 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
2019Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
The current state of the argument, as Anna Ellis.
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.
2 of 2 films
as 5-Year-Old Julie
Directed by Kay Cannon
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
Anna Ellis
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays (2019)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Anna Ellis gives Anniston Almond a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
5-Year-Old Julie
Blockers (2018)
Performance score6.5
Blockers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 5-Year-Old Julie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Anna Ellis
Start here. Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays is the clearest statement of what Anniston Almond does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 6.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anniston 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.
Blockers (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kay Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlockersEric Close
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the HolidaysSix 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
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
as Anna Ellis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
as Anna Ellis
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. Anniston Almond 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.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
as Anna Ellis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
as Anna Ellis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Blockers
as 5-Year-Old Julie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
as Anna Ellis
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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