Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#80845
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Harriet Turnbull 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.
Harriet Turnbull appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Harriet. Hilda and the Mountain King is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for tv movie, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Coyle, Marjane Satrapi, Tom Hooper and others, Harriet Turnbull 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.
Hilda and the Mountain King (2021) as Additional Voices (voice) · Breathe (2017) as Little Girl · FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) as Carol Singer
Career snapshot
Ranked #80845 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2014–2021
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Hilda and the Mountain King
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Hilda and the Mountain King
Most frequent director
Andy Coyle
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Andy Coyle
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Hilda and the Mountain King, Radioactive — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. Cats, FX's A Christmas Carol, Breathe.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 6.23 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 5.42 films | — |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014What We Did on Our Holiday
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jess McLeod.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2021Hilda and the Mountain King
7.6 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. The current state of the argument, as Additional Voices (voice).
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.
6 of 6 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Andy Coyle
as Little Girl
Directed by Andy Serkis
as Young Marie
Directed by Marjane Satrapi
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
Additional Voices (voice)
Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Harriet Turnbull a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Little Girl
Breathe (2017)
Performance score7.2
Breathe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Little Girl is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carol Singer
FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
Performance score7.1
FX's A Christmas Carol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carol Singer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Young Marie
Radioactive (2020)
Performance score6.6
Radioactive asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Marie 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 Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Hilda and the Mountain King is the clearest statement of what Harriet Turnbull does — accessible, 83 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Harriet 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.
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Hilda and the Mountain King — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Breathe (2017)
A deliberate change of key after What We Did on Our Holiday — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Breathe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Radioactive (2020)
Keeps the drama register of FX's A Christmas Carol but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably What We Did on Our Holiday
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably Breathe
Nick Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably FX's A Christmas Carol
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Cats
Marjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together
Notably Radioactive
Andy Coyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Hilda and the Mountain King
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Coyle
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hilda and the Mountain KingAndy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BreatheNick Murphy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FX's A Christmas CarolAndy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What We Did on Our HolidayMarjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RadioactiveTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CatsSix 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
Breathe
as Little 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
Breathe
as Little 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
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Breathe
as Little Girl
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
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. Harriet Turnbull 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 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
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Radioactive
as Young Marie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
FX's A Christmas Carol
as Carol Singer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hilda and the Mountain King
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Radioactive
as Young Marie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
What We Did on Our Holiday
as Jess McLeod
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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