Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9694
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Georgie Glen represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Georgie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Georgie Glen appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Georgie. Les Misérables is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Patrick Hughes, Ed Bye, Pablo Larraín and others, Georgie Glen 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.
Les Misérables (2012) as Madame Baptistine · The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) as ICC Lead Judge · Amazing Grace (2006) as Hannah More
Career snapshot
Ranked #9694 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Les Misérables
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Les Misérables
Most frequent director
Patrick Hughes
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Patrick Hughes
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.4
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.82 films | 6.72 films | 6.83 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.62 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.91 film | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 6.52 films | 6.53 films | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | — | 6.91 film | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 6.51 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Mrs Brown
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lady Churchill.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Les Misérables
7.3 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
2026Elsinore
The current state of the argument.
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 Madame Baptistine
Directed by Tom Hooper
as ICC Lead Judge
Directed by Patrick Hughes
as Hannah More
Directed by Michael Apted
as Lady in Waiting
Directed by John Madden
as Hilda
Directed by Ed Bye
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Madame Baptistine
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madame Baptistine gives Georgie Glen a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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ICC Lead Judge
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Performance score6.8
The Hitman's Bodyguard asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. ICC Lead Judge is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hannah More
Amazing Grace (2006)
Performance score6.8
Amazing Grace asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hannah More is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lady in Waiting
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Performance score6.8
Shakespeare in Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lady in Waiting 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 Madame Baptistine
Start here. Les Misérables is the clearest statement of what Georgie Glen does — accessible, 158 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Georgie 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.
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Amazing Grace (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Shakespeare in Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Amazing Grace — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dial M for Middlesbrough (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Hitman's Bodyguard but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Madden
Director
2 films together
Notably Shakespeare in Love
Patrick Hughes
Director
2 films together
Notably The Hitman's Bodyguard
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably Calendar Girls
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Amazing Grace
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably My Week with Marilyn
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Pablo Larraín
Director
1 film together
Notably Jackie
Ed Bye
Director
1 film together
Notably Dial M for Middlesbrough
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Patrick Hughes
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hitman's BodyguardJohn Madden
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Shakespeare in LoveTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amazing GraceSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Week with MarilynEd Bye
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dial M for MiddlesbroughPablo Larraín
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JackieNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Calendar GirlsSix 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
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
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. Georgie Glen 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
29 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 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
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as ICC Lead Judge
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Les Misérables
as Madame Baptistine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dial M for Middlesbrough
as Hilda
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as ICC Lead Judge
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as ICC Lead Judge
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Shakespeare in Love
as Lady in Waiting
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Shakespeare in Love
as Lady in Waiting
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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