Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#665
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hannah Waddingham 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.
Hannah Waddingham appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hannah. An Audience with Adele is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 comedy, music, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Leitch, Christopher McQuarrie, Dean Fleischer Camp and others, Hannah Waddingham 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.
An Audience with Adele (2021) as Self · Les Misérables (2012) as Factory Woman 2 · Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) as Admiral Neely
Career snapshot
Ranked #665 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2008–2027
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
An Audience with Adele
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
An Audience with Adele
Most frequent director
David Leitch
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Les Misérables — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.01 film | 7.31 film | — |
| Action | — | — | 4.73 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | — | 4.77 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Elizabeth Maddox.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.4 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
2027Jason Statham Stole My Bike
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.
14 of 14 films
as Jinx (voice)
Directed by Mark Dindal
as Factory Woman 2
Directed by Tom Hooper
as Admiral Neely
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
as Grand Councilwoman (voice)
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp
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
Self
An Audience with Adele (2021)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Hannah Waddingham a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jinx (voice)
The Garfield Movie (2024)
Performance score7.4
The Garfield Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jinx (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Factory Woman 2
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Factory Woman 2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Admiral Neely
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Performance score7.1
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Admiral Neely 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 Self
Start here. An Audience with Adele is the clearest statement of what Hannah Waddingham does — accessible, 69 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hannah 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.
Les Misérables (2012)
A deliberate change of key after An Audience with Adele — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Garfield Movie (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Les Misérables — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Keeps the adventure register of The Garfield Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably The Fall Guy
Robert B. Weide
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Hocus Pocus 2
Adam Countee
Director
1 film together
Notably Willow: Behind the Magic
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Garfield Movie
Chris Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Smurfs
Dean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together · 3.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Fall GuyTom 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 MisérablesChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningDean Fleischer Camp
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hocus Pocus 2Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Garfield MovieRobert B. Weide
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleChris Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SmurfsAdam 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.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2021
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
An Audience with Adele
as Self
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 Factory Woman 2
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
An Audience with Adele
as Self
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 Factory Woman 2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
An Audience with Adele
as Self
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. Hannah Waddingham 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
An Audience with Adele
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Admiral Neely
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Smurfs
as Jezebeth (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Heidi Heatherley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Admiral Neely
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Admiral Neely
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Elizabeth Maddox
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Smurfs
as Jezebeth (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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