Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#31596
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Erin Cahill 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.
Erin Cahill appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Erin. Mystery 101: Killer Timing is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 Clare Niederpruem, Lucie Guest, Eiichiro Hasumi and others, Erin Cahill 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.
Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021) as Kate · A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025) as Guide · Resident Evil: Death Island (2023) as Rebecca Chambers (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #31596 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
Most frequent director
Clare Niederpruem
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Clare Niederpruem
Most common genre
TV Movie
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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. A Grand Ole Opry Christmas, Christmas at the Catnip Café, Resident Evil: Death Island — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 9 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. Christmas on the Range, Love, Fall & Order, Muse.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | — | 6.84 films |
| Action | — | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 5.74 films |
| Crime | — | 7.71 film |
| Romance | 6.33 films | 6.66 films |
| Horror | — | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kendall Riley.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Mystery 101: Killer Timing
7.7 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
2025Christmas at the Catnip Café
The current state of the argument, as Olivia Pierce.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Kate
Directed by Fred Gerber
as Rebecca Chambers (voice)
Directed by Eiichiro Hasumi
as Guide
Directed by Clare Niederpruem
as Olivia Pierce
Directed by Lucie Guest
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
Kate
Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kate gives Erin Cahill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Rebecca Chambers (voice)
Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
Performance score7.4
Resident Evil: Death Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rebecca Chambers (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kelly
The Secret Ingredient (2020)
Performance score7.4
The Secret Ingredient asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kelly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Guide
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025)
Performance score7.3
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Guide 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 Kate
Start here. Mystery 101: Killer Timing is the clearest statement of what Erin Cahill does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Erin 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 Secret Ingredient (2020)
Keeps the tv movie register of Mystery 101: Killer Timing but asks for a colder reading of it.
Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Secret Ingredient — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Resident Evil: Death Island — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Christmas at the Catnip Café (2025)
Keeps the romance register of A Grand Ole Opry Christmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Clare Niederpruem
Director
2 films together
Notably A Grand Ole Opry Christmas
Marita Grabiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Random Acts of Christmas
George Erschbamer
Director
1 film together
Notably Muse
Tibor Takács
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Ingredient
Ron Oliver
Director
1 film together
Notably A Timeless Christmas
Maclain Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Every Time a Bell Rings
Fred Gerber
Director
1 film together
Notably Mystery 101: Killer Timing
Gail Harvey
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas on Cherry Lane
Eiichiro Hasumi
Director
1 film together
Notably Resident Evil: Death Island
Lucie Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas at the Catnip Café
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Clare Niederpruem
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Grand Ole Opry ChristmasFred Gerber
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mystery 101: Killer TimingEiichiro Hasumi
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Resident Evil: Death IslandLucie Guest
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas at the Catnip CaféTibor Takács
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret IngredientRon Oliver
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Timeless ChristmasMarita Grabiak
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Random Acts of ChristmasGail Harvey
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas on Cherry LaneGeorge Erschbamer
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MuseMaclain Nelson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Every Time a Bell RingsSix 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
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas
as Guide
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
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. Erin Cahill 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.
TV Movie Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in tv movie, 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
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Christmas on Cherry Lane
as Lizzie Hamilton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Kate
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Resident Evil: Death Island
as Rebecca Chambers (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Resident Evil: Death Island
as Rebecca Chambers (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Every Time a Bell Rings
as Charlotte
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Church People
as Carla Finney
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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