Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21296
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Emilie Ullerup 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.
Emilie Ullerup appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emilie. Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 romance, tv movie, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Maclain Nelson, Jessica Harmon, Monika Mitchell and others, Emilie Ullerup 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.
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare (2019) as Michelle · Catch of the Day (2025) as Sophie · Winter Castle (2019) as Jenny
Career snapshot
Ranked #21296 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
Most frequent director
Marita Grabiak
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Marita Grabiak
Most common genre
Romance
6 titles
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
6.3
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Winter Castle, Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare, Life on the Line — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Winter Castle, Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare, Life on the Line.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 5.81 film | 5.32 films |
| Action | 5.84 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 4.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.82 films |
| Romance | 6.52 films | 6.44 films |
| Horror | 8.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Hunt to Kill
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dominika.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
8.4 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
2026Missing the Boat
The current state of the argument, as Kelly Coates.
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 Michelle
Directed by Jeff Hare
as Sophie
Directed by Jessica Harmon
as Jenny
Directed by Marita Grabiak
as Taylor Jones
Directed by Unknown
as Katie
Directed by Marita Grabiak
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
Michelle
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare (2019)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Michelle gives Emilie Ullerup a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sophie
Catch of the Day (2025)
Performance score7.5
Catch of the Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sophie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jenny
Winter Castle (2019)
Performance score7.4
Winter Castle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jenny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Taylor Jones
Don't Forget I Love You (2021)
Performance score7.3
Don't Forget I Love You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Taylor Jones 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 Michelle
Start here. Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare is the clearest statement of what Emilie Ullerup does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emilie 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.
Winter Castle (2019)
Keeps the tv movie register of Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare but asks for a colder reading of it.
Nature of Love (2020)
Same director as Winter Castle, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Don't Forget I Love You (2021)
Keeps the romance register of Nature of Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
Catch of the Day (2025)
Keeps the romance register of Don't Forget I Love You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Marita Grabiak
Director
2 films together
Notably Winter Castle
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably This Means War
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably True Memoirs of an International Assassin
David Hackl
Director
1 film together
Notably Life on the Line
Jeff Hare
Director
1 film together
Notably Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
Monika Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably Brazen
Jessica Harmon
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch of the Day
Maclain Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Missing the Boat
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marita Grabiak
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Winter CastleJeff Hare
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's NightmareJessica Harmon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch of the DayMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Means WarMaclain Nelson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Missing the BoatDavid Hackl
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life on the LineJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True Memoirs of an International AssassinMonika Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrazenSix 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
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Missing the Boat
as Kelly Coates
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
This Means War
as Ex-Girlfriend (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
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. Emilie Ullerup 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.
Romance Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in romance, 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
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Missing the Boat
as Kelly Coates
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Brazen
as Kathleen Miller Breezewood / Desiree
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stalked by My Doctor: A Sleepwalker's Nightmare
as Michelle
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hunt to Kill
as Dominika
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
This Means War
as Ex-Girlfriend (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Life on the Line
as Becky Ginner
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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