Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3602
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Catherine Tate 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.
Catherine Tate appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Catherine. The Big Night In is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 music, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ross Venokur, Anthony Silverston, Thomas Bezucha and others, Catherine Tate 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.
The Big Night In (2020) as Lauren Cooper · Doctor Who at the Proms (2024) as Self - Host / Donna Noble (archive footage) · Monte Carlo (2011) as Alicia Winthrop Scott
Career snapshot
Ranked #3602 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2006–2024
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
The Big Night In
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
The Big Night In
Most frequent director
Ross Venokur
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ross Venokur
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.5
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Doctor Who at the Proms, Rally Road Racers, The Nan Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Starter for 10.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.03 films | 6.94 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Starter for 10
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Julie Jackson.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020The Big Night In
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Self - Host / Donna Noble (archive footage).
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.
10 of 10 films
as Lauren Cooper
Directed by Unknown
as Self - Host / Donna Noble (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Baba Yaga (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Alicia Winthrop Scott
Directed by Thomas Bezucha
as Juni Hakansdotter (voice)
Directed by Ross Venokur
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
Lauren Cooper
The Big Night In (2020)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lauren Cooper gives Catherine Tate a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self - Host / Donna Noble (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
Performance score7.8
Doctor Who at the Proms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Host / Donna Noble (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Baba Yaga (voice)
Monster Family 2 (2021)
Performance score6.8
Monster Family 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Baba Yaga (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alicia Winthrop Scott
Monte Carlo (2011)
Performance score6.7
Monte Carlo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alicia Winthrop Scott 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 Lauren Cooper
Start here. The Big Night In is the clearest statement of what Catherine Tate does — accessible, 179 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Catherine 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.
Monte Carlo (2011)
Keeps the comedy register of The Big Night In but asks for a colder reading of it.
Monster Family 2 (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Monte Carlo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rally Road Racers (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Monster Family 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Rally Road Racers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Starter for 10
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gulliver's Travels
Thomas Bezucha
Director
1 film together
Notably Monte Carlo
Anthony Silverston
Director
1 film together
Notably Khumba
Ross Venokur
Director
1 film together
Notably Rally Road Racers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thomas Bezucha
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monte CarloRoss Venokur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rally Road RacersTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starter for 10Anthony Silverston
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KhumbaRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gulliver's TravelsSix 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
The Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Starter for 10
as Julie Jackson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Monte Carlo
as Alicia Winthrop Scott
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
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. Catherine Tate 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in comedy, 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 Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Khumba
as Nora (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gulliver's Travels
as Queen Isabel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Big Night In
as Lauren Cooper
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Khumba
as Nora (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Starter for 10
as Julie Jackson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Nan Movie
as Nan / Joanie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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