Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5979
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emily Tennant 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 Tennant appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emily. Christmas Above the Clouds 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 romance, tv movie, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Terry Ingram, Peter Benson, Alysse Leite-Rogers and others, Emily Tennant 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.
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025) as Bobbi Cratchit · Juno (2007) as Pretty-to-Goth Girl · I, Robot (2004) as Young Girl
Career snapshot
Ranked #5979 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Christmas Above the Clouds
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Christmas Above the Clouds
Most frequent director
Terry Ingram
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Terry Ingram
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Jennifer's Body, Juno, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Jennifer's Body, Juno, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.82 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | 7.11 film | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 4.23 films |
| Comedy | 6.44 films | 6.72 films |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 6.53 films |
| Horror | 6.01 film | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004I, Robot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Girl.
Highest rated performance
2007Juno
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Christmas Above the Clouds
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 Elise Everett.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Bobbi Cratchit
Directed by Peter Benson
as Pretty-to-Goth Girl
Directed by Jason Reitman
as Elise Everett
Directed by Terry Ingram
as Young Girl
Directed by Alex Proyas
as Madison
Directed by Unknown
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
Bobbi Cratchit
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bobbi Cratchit gives Emily Tennant a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Pretty-to-Goth Girl
Juno (2007)
Performance score7.1
Juno asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pretty-to-Goth Girl is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elise Everett
A Season to Blossom (2026)
Performance score7.0
A Season to Blossom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elise Everett is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Girl
I, Robot (2004)
Performance score7.0
I, Robot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Girl 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 Bobbi Cratchit
Start here. Christmas Above the Clouds is the clearest statement of what Emily Tennant does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.2 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.
I, Robot (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Christmas Above the Clouds — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Juno (2007)
A deliberate change of key after I, Robot — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Influencer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Juno — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Season to Blossom (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Influencer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Alex Proyas
Director
1 film together
Notably I, Robot
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Juno
Karyn Kusama
Director
1 film together
Notably Jennifer's Body
Kaare Andrews
Director
1 film together
Notably Sniper: Assassin's End
Alysse Leite-Rogers
Director
1 film together
Notably A Kindhearted Christmas
Peter Benson
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas Above the Clouds
Terry Ingram
Director
1 film together
Notably A Season to Blossom
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter Benson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas Above the CloudsJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JunoAlex Proyas
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I, RobotKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsTerry Ingram
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Season to BlossomKaare Andrews
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sniper: Assassin's EndAlysse Leite-Rogers
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Kindhearted ChristmasRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters UnleashedKaryn Kusama
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jennifer's BodySix 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
I, Robot
as Young Girl
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Juno
as Pretty-to-Goth Girl
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Juno
as Pretty-to-Goth Girl
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Young Daphne
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Christmas Above the Clouds
as Bobbi Cratchit
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 Tennant 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
6 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
Christmas Above the Clouds
as Bobbi Cratchit
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Influencer
as Madison
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Season to Blossom
as Elise Everett
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
as Young Daphne
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
I, Robot
as Young Girl
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
I, Robot
as Young Girl
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Juno
as Pretty-to-Goth Girl
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Juno
as Pretty-to-Goth Girl
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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