Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4841
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jemma Redgrave represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Jemma is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jemma Redgrave appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jemma. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Timo Tjahjanto, David Ayer, Whit Stillman and others, Jemma Redgrave 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.
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) as Kate Stewart · The Beekeeper (2024) as President Danforth · Doctor Who at the Proms (2024) as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4841 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1992–2027
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Most frequent director
Timo Tjahjanto
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Timo Tjahjanto
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Howards End — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Howards End.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.01 film | 6.01 film |
| Action | — | — | 3.62 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 3.62 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.01 film | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | — | 3.62 films |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 6.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1992Howards End
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Evie Wilcox.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
7.7 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
2027The Beekeeper 2
The current state of the argument, as President Danforth.
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 Kate Stewart
Directed by Nick Hurran
as President Danforth
Directed by David Ayer
as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Evie Wilcox
Directed by James Ivory
as President Danforth
Directed by Timo Tjahjanto
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
Kate Stewart
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kate Stewart gives Jemma Redgrave a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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President Danforth
The Beekeeper (2024)
Performance score7.2
The Beekeeper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. President Danforth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
Performance score7.1
Doctor Who at the Proms asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Evie Wilcox
Howards End (1992)
Performance score6.9
Howards End asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Evie Wilcox 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 Kate Stewart
Start here. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor is the clearest statement of what Jemma Redgrave does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jemma 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.
Howards End (1992)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Beekeeper (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Howards End — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
A deliberate change of key after The Beekeeper — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Beekeeper 2 (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Who at the Proms — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Ivory
Director
1 film together
Notably Howards End
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Whit Stillman
Director
1 film together
Notably Love & Friendship
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper
Timo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorDavid Ayer
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 BeekeeperJames Ivory
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Howards EndWhit Stillman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love & FriendshipTimo Tjahjanto
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 Beekeeper 2Six 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
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Howards End
as Evie Wilcox
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as Kate Stewart
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Doctor Who at the Proms
as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as Kate Stewart
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. Jemma Redgrave 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
35 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
3 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
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as Kate Stewart
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Howards End
as Evie Wilcox
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love & Friendship
as Lady DeCourcy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Beekeeper
as President Danforth
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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