Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26120
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Elle Graham 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.
Elle Graham appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Elle. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shawn Simmons, Maria Schrader, Edward Zwick and others, Elle Graham 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.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) as Nancy Wheeler · She Said (2022) as Gracie · Trial by Fire (2019) as Amber
Career snapshot
Ranked #26120 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Most frequent director
Shawn Simmons
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shawn Simmons
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Eenie Meanie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., She Said — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Trial by Fire, Mile 22, Hell Fest.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.93 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.02 films | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 6.31 film |
| Horror | 5.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat.
Highest rated performance
2022She Said
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2023Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Eenie Meanie
The current state of the argument, as Young Edie.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Gracie
Directed by Maria Schrader
as Amber
Directed by Edward Zwick
as Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Young Edie
Directed by Shawn Simmons
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
Nancy Wheeler
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nancy Wheeler gives Elle Graham a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gracie
She Said (2022)
Performance score7.1
She Said asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gracie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amber
Trial by Fire (2019)
Performance score6.9
Trial by Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amber is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Performance score6.8
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat 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 Nancy Wheeler
Start here. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is the clearest statement of what Elle Graham does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Elle 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.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Trial by Fire (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
She Said (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Trial by Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eenie Meanie (2025)
Keeps the drama register of She Said but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Mile 22
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Trial by Fire
Maria Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably She Said
Shawn Simmons
Director
1 film together
Notably Eenie Meanie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Maria Schrader
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She SaidEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trial by FireFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2Shawn Simmons
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eenie MeaniePeter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mile 22Six 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
She Said
as Gracie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
She Said
as Gracie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
She Said
as Gracie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
She Said
as Gracie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
as Nancy Wheeler
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. Elle Graham 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
4 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
She Said
as Gracie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Eenie Meanie
as Young Edie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
She Said
as Gracie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Trial by Fire
as Amber
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Girl in Lemon Yellow Coat
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Eenie Meanie
as Young Edie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
She Said
as Gracie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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