Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10125
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Erin Kellyman 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 Kellyman appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Erin. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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 science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nia DaCosta, Danny Boyle, Scarlett Johansson and others, Erin Kellyman 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.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) as Jimmy Ink · Eleanor the Great (2025) as Nina · Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021) as Karli Morgenthau (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #10125 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Most frequent director
Nia DaCosta
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nia DaCosta
Most common genre
Science Fiction
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Solo: A Star Wars Story — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
6.6
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. Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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 | — | 6.64 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | — | 4.31 film |
| Horror | — | 6.53 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Enfys Nest.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
202628 Years Later: The Bone Temple
7.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Jimmy Ink.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Jimmy Ink
Directed by Nia DaCosta
as Karli Morgenthau (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Jimmy Ink
Directed by Danny Boyle
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
Nina
Eleanor the Great (2025)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nina gives Erin Kellyman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jimmy Ink
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Performance score7.2
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimmy Ink is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dorothy Ellis
Lilies Not for Me (2025)
Performance score7.1
Lilies Not for Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dorothy Ellis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Karli Morgenthau (archive footage)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021)
Performance score6.8
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Karli Morgenthau (archive footage) 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 Nina
Start here. Eleanor the Great is the clearest statement of what Erin Kellyman does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 6.9 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.
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Eleanor the Great — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Lilies Not for Me (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
28 Years Later (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Lilies Not for Me — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Keeps the science fiction register of 28 Years Later but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Green Knight
Adam Countee
Director
1 film together
Notably Willow: Behind the Magic
Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blitz
Will Seefried
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilies Not for Me
Scarlett Johansson
Director
1 film together
Notably Eleanor the Great
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Years Later
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleScarlett Johansson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eleanor the GreatDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Years LaterWill Seefried
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilies Not for MeDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Green KnightRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StorySteve McQueen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlitzAdam Countee
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Willow: Behind the MagicSix 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
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Jimmy Ink
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lilies Not for Me
as Dorothy Ellis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Jimmy Ink
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Karli Morgenthau (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Eleanor the Great
as Nina
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 Kellyman 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
The Green Knight
as Winifred
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
as Jimmy Ink
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lilies Not for Me
as Dorothy Ellis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Green Knight
as Winifred
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Enfys Nest
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Enfys Nest
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Lilies Not for Me
as Dorothy Ellis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
28 Years Later
as Jimmy Ink
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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