Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21569
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hermione Baddeley represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Hermione is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Hermione Baddeley appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hermione. Mary Poppins 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 quiet performance, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Don Bluth, Wolfgang Reitherman, Robert Stevenson and others, Hermione Baddeley 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.
Mary Poppins (1964) as Ellen · The Aristocats (1970) as Madame (voice) · The Secret of NIMH (1982) as Auntie Shrew (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #21569 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
1951–1982
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Mary Poppins
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Mary Poppins
Most frequent director
Don Bluth
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Don Bluth
Most common genre
Fantasy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.0
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
1960s
7.6 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. Mary Poppins — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Scrooge.
Most productive era
1950s
1 film
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 | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.11 film | — | — | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.61 film | 7.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1951Scrooge
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mrs. Cratchit.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1964Mary Poppins
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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Auntie Shrew (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.
4 of 4 films
as Ellen
Directed by Robert Stevenson
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
Directed by Don Bluth
as Madame (voice)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
as Mrs. Cratchit
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
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
Ellen
Mary Poppins (1964)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ellen gives Hermione Baddeley a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Auntie Shrew (voice)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Performance score7.3
The Secret of NIMH asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Auntie Shrew (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Madame (voice)
The Aristocats (1970)
Performance score7.2
The Aristocats asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Madame (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Cratchit
Scrooge (1951)
Performance score7.0
Scrooge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Cratchit 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 Ellen
Start here. Mary Poppins is the clearest statement of what Hermione Baddeley does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hermione 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.
Scrooge (1951)
Keeps the fantasy register of Mary Poppins but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Aristocats (1970)
A deliberate change of key after Scrooge — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Keeps the adventure register of The Aristocats but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrooge
Robert Stevenson
Director
1 film together
Notably Mary Poppins
Wolfgang Reitherman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Aristocats
Don Bluth
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret of NIMH
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Stevenson
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mary PoppinsWolfgang Reitherman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AristocatsDon Bluth
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret of NIMHBrian Desmond Hurst
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScroogeSix 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
Mary Poppins
as Ellen
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mary Poppins
as Ellen
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Aristocats
as Madame (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mary Poppins
as Ellen
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. Hermione Baddeley 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
31 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Fantasy Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in fantasy, 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 Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Aristocats
as Madame (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Aristocats
as Madame (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret of NIMH
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mary Poppins
as Ellen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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