Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16404
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Camilla Rutherford 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.
Camilla Rutherford appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Camilla. Breathe is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 mystery, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Sadie Frost, Andy Serkis and others, Camilla Rutherford 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.
Breathe (2017) as Katherine Robertson · The Darjeeling Limited (2007) as Alice · Tom & Jerry (2021) as Wealthy Woman (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #16404 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2001–2023
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Breathe
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Breathe
Most frequent director
Tim Story
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tim Story
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Edge of Love, The Darjeeling Limited, Vanity Fair — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. The Edge of Love, The Darjeeling Limited, Vanity Fair.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.54 films | 6.72 films | 3.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | 6.01 film | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 5.31 film | 6.42 films |
| Romance | 6.02 films | 7.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Gosford Park
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Isobel McCordle.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Breathe
7.4 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
2023Club Zero
The current state of the argument, as Fred's Mother.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Katherine Robertson
Directed by Andy Serkis
as Alice
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Isobel McCordle
Directed by Robert Altman
as Wealthy Woman (uncredited)
Directed by Tim Story
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
Katherine Robertson
Breathe (2017)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Katherine Robertson gives Camilla Rutherford a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alice
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Performance score7.0
The Darjeeling Limited asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Isobel McCordle
Gosford Park (2001)
Performance score7.0
Gosford Park asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Isobel McCordle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wealthy Woman (uncredited)
Tom & Jerry (2021)
Performance score6.8
Tom & Jerry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wealthy Woman (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 Katherine Robertson
Start here. Breathe is the clearest statement of what Camilla Rutherford does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Camilla 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.
Gosford Park (2001)
Keeps the drama register of Breathe but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Gosford Park but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tom & Jerry (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The Darjeeling Limited but asks for a colder reading of it.
Club Zero (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Tom & Jerry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gosford Park
Mira Nair
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanity Fair
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Darjeeling Limited
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Edge of Love
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fifth Estate
Mandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably Breathe
Sadie Frost
Director
1 film together
Notably Quant
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom & Jerry
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BreatheWes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Darjeeling LimitedTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom & JerryRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gosford ParkJohn Maybury
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Edge of LoveSadie Frost
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuantBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fifth EstateMira Nair
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vanity FairMandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieSix 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
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Fashion Show / Huki Muki Attendee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
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. Camilla Rutherford 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
8 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
Gosford Park
as Isobel McCordle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gosford Park
as Isobel McCordle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gosford Park
as Isobel McCordle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Darjeeling Limited
as Alice
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Darjeeling Limited
as Alice
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Breathe
as Katherine Robertson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tom & Jerry
as Wealthy Woman (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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