Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#20165
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ella Hunt 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.
Ella Hunt appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ella. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 western, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Costner, Jason Reitman, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and others, Ella Hunt 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.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) as Juliette Chesney · Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) as Juliette Chesney · Saturday Night (2024) as Gilda Radner
Career snapshot
Ranked #20165 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2011–2024
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Most frequent director
Kevin Costner
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kevin Costner
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 1m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, Saturday Night, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Summer Night, Anna and the Apocalypse, Robot Overlords.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.31 film | 6.55 films |
| Action | 4.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.51 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.72 films | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 5.31 film | 6.71 film |
| Horror | 5.82 films | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Intruders
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ella Foster.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2024Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
7.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Juliette Chesney.
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 Gilda Radner
Directed by Jason Reitman
as Juliette Chesney
Directed by Kevin Costner
as Mrs. Flint
Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
as Anna Shepherd
Directed by Unknown
as Juliette Chesney
Directed by Kevin Costner
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
Gilda Radner
Saturday Night (2024)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gilda Radner gives Ella Hunt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Juliette Chesney
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
Performance score6.9
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Juliette Chesney is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Flint
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
Performance score6.9
Lady Chatterley's Lover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Flint is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anna Shepherd
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Performance score6.8
Anna and the Apocalypse asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna Shepherd 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 Gilda Radner
Start here. Saturday Night is the clearest statement of what Ella Hunt does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ella 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.
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Saturday Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Anna and the Apocalypse — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Lady Chatterley's Lover but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Same director as Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2, 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.
Kevin Costner
Director
2 films together
Notably Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together
Notably Intruders
Jon Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Robot Overlords
Joseph Cross
Director
1 film together
Notably Summer Night
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Chatterley's Lover
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Saturday Night
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Costner
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saturday NightLaure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady Chatterley's LoverJuan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IntrudersJoseph Cross
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Summer NightJon Wright
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robot OverlordsSix 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
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Mrs. Flint
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Mrs. Flint
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
as Juliette Chesney
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
as Juliette Chesney
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Saturday Night
as Gilda Radner
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. Ella Hunt 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 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
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
as Juliette Chesney
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Intruders
as Ella Foster
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Mrs. Flint
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Master
as Cressida
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
as Juliette Chesney
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Robot Overlords
as Alexandra
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Summer Night
as Dana
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Saturday Night
as Gilda Radner
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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