Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13093
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hera Hilmar 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.
Hera Hilmar appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hera. Anna Karenina is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 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 action, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Claudio Fäh, Inga Lísa Middleton, Brad Silberling and others, Hera Hilmar 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.
Anna Karenina (2012) as Varya · Turbulence (2025) as Emmy · Mortal Engines (2018) as Hester Shaw
Career snapshot
Ranked #13093 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2012–2025
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
Anna Karenina
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
Anna Karenina
Most frequent director
Claudio Fäh
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Claudio Fäh
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mortal Engines, The Ottoman Lieutenant, An Ordinary Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Mortal Engines, The Ottoman Lieutenant, An Ordinary Man.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.34 films | 3.32 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | — |
| Romance | 6.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2012Anna Karenina
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Varya. 6.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2018Mortal Engines
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Turbulence
The current state of the argument, as Emmy.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Hester Shaw
Directed by Unknown
as Emmy
Directed by Claudio Fäh
as Tanja
Directed by Brad Silberling
as Varya
Directed by Joe Wright
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
Hester Shaw
Mortal Engines (2018)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hester Shaw gives Hera Hilmar a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Emmy
Turbulence (2025)
Performance score6.8
Turbulence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emmy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lillie Rowe
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
Performance score6.8
The Ottoman Lieutenant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lillie Rowe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tanja
An Ordinary Man (2017)
Performance score6.7
An Ordinary Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tanja 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 Hester Shaw
Start here. Mortal Engines is the clearest statement of what Hera Hilmar does — accessible, 128 minutes, and rated 6.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hera 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.
Anna Karenina (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Mortal Engines — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
Keeps the romance register of Anna Karenina but asks for a colder reading of it.
An Ordinary Man (2017)
Keeps the war register of The Ottoman Lieutenant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Turbulence (2025)
Keeps the action register of An Ordinary Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna Karenina
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fifth Estate
Christopher Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Santa
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably An Ordinary Man
Inga Lísa Middleton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wish
Claudio Fäh
Director
1 film together
Notably Turbulence
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anna KareninaClaudio Fäh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TurbulenceBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An Ordinary ManChristopher Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SantaBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fifth EstateInga Lísa Middleton
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WishSix 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
Anna Karenina
as Varya
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Anna Karenina
as Varya
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Anna Karenina
as Varya
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Anna Karenina
as Varya
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mortal Engines
as Hester Shaw
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. Hera Hilmar 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
6 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
Turbulence
as Emmy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Turbulence
as Emmy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Anna Karenina
as Varya
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Turbulence
as Emmy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Turbulence
as Emmy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Turbulence
as Emmy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Lillie Rowe
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mortal Engines
as Hester Shaw
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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