Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#733
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emily Beecham 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.
Emily Beecham appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emily. Supergirl is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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, adventure, sci-fi. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Craig Gillespie, Stacy Martin, Kristin Scott Thomas and others, Emily Beecham 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.
Supergirl (2026) as Alura In-Ze · Cruella (2021) as Catherine / Maid · Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) as Caroline Kinley
Career snapshot
Ranked #733 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Supergirl
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Cruella
Most frequent director
Craig Gillespie
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Craig Gillespie
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. 28 Weeks Later — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. 28 Weeks Later.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | — | 3.53 films | 4.47 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.15 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — | 6.92 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.91 film | 7.22 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 8.11 film |
| Crime | — | — | 8.11 film |
| Horror | 6.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200728 Weeks Later
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Karen.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Cruella
8.1 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
2026Supergirl
The current state of the argument, as Alura In-Ze.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Alura In-Ze
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Catherine / Maid
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Caroline Kinley
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Alura In-Ze
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Georgina
Directed by Kristin Scott Thomas
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 18 of 18 titles · 18 total credits · active 2007–2026
Amaretti
2026 · Lola
Supergirl
2026 · Alura In-Ze
My Mother's Wedding
2025 · Georgina
William Tell
2025 · Gertrude
King & Conqueror
2025 · TV · Edith Swanneck
Stockholm Bloodbath
2024 · Kristina Gyllenstierna
Slingshot
2024 · Zoe Morgan
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 · Caroline Kinley
1899
2022 · TV · Maura Franklin
Cruella
2021 · Catherine / Maid
Tortoise
2021 · Anna
Sulphur & White
2020 · Vanessa
Little Joe
2019 · Alice
Berlin, I Love You
2019 · Hannah
Kingdom
2019 · Scavenger
Hail, Caesar!
2016 · Dierdre
Into the Badlands
2015 · TV · The Widow
28 Weeks Later
2007 · Karen
The defining work
#1
Alura In-Ze
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alura In-Ze gives Emily Beecham a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Catherine / Maid
Cruella (2021)
Performance score8.1
Cruella asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Catherine / Maid is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Caroline Kinley
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Performance score7.5
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Caroline Kinley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alura In-Ze
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score7.1
Supergirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alura In-Ze 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 Alura In-Ze
Start here. Supergirl is the clearest statement of what Emily Beecham does — accessible, 124 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emily 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.
Cruella (2021)
Same director as Supergirl, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Cruella — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Mother's Wedding (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Guy Ritchie's The Covenant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Supergirl (2026)
A deliberate change of key after My Mother's Wedding — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
3 films together
Notably Supergirl
Mikael Håfström
Director
2 films together
Notably Stockholm Bloodbath
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Weeks Later
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Bettina Oberli
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingdom
Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together
Notably Berlin, I Love You
Julian Jarrold
Director
1 film together
Notably Sulphur & White
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Nick Hamm
Director
1 film together
Notably William Tell
Kristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably My Mother's Wedding
Stacy Martin
Director
1 film together
Notably Amaretti
David Krumholtz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Milly Alcock
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Eve Ridley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Jason Momoa
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
David Corenswet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Kadiff Kirwan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Thalissa Teixeira
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Ferdinand Kingsley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Emily Piggford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Diarmaid Murtagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Clara Rosager
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SupergirlMikael Håfström
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Stockholm BloodbathGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Guy Ritchie's The CovenantJuan Carlos Fresnadillo
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Weeks LaterKristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Mother's WeddingNick Hamm
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
William TellJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Josef Rusnak
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Berlin, I Love YouJulian Jarrold
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sulphur & WhiteStacy Martin
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmarettiBettina Oberli
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KingdomSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Emily Beecham
Where this journey starts
Director
Craig Gillespie
3 collaborations, averaging 7.7
Film
Supergirl
Their highest-rated film together (2026)
Performer
David Krumholtz
Shares the frame in Supergirl
Film
Oppenheimer
Where David goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Matt Damon
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Cruella
as Catherine / Maid
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
William Tell
as Gertrude
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cruella
as Catherine / Maid
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hail, Caesar!
as Dierdre
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
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. Emily Beecham has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.6 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #621 of 681 | #487 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.1 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama |
| Directors | Craig Gillespie | Craig Gillespie, Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Action, Physical performance, Screen presence | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Alura In-Ze — Supergirl | Isidor Rabi — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Supergirl | Oppenheimer |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Supergirl
Shared directors
craig-gillespie
Shared collections
Action Movies, Adventure Movies, Sci-Fi Movies
Collaborators in common
Craig Gillespie · Milly Alcock · Eve Ridley · Matthias Schoenaerts · Jason Momoa · David Corenswet · Kadiff Kirwan · Thalissa Teixeira
David Krumholtz edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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
10 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
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
William Tell
as Gertrude
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hail, Caesar!
as Dierdre
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cruella
as Catherine / Maid
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supergirl
as Alura In-Ze
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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