Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21471
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jill Buchanan 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.
Jill Buchanan appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jill. Doctor Strange 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, fantasy, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gina Prince-Bythewood, Bassam Tariq, David Leitch and others, Jill Buchanan 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 Strange (2016) as Physio Patient (uncredited) · The Old Guard (2020) as Screaming Woman · Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) as Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #21471 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2014–2020
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Doctor Strange
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Doctor Strange
Most frequent director
Gina Prince-Bythewood
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gina Prince-Bythewood
Most common genre
Fantasy
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
6.9
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Doctor Strange, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Doctor Strange, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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 | — | 6.31 film |
| Action | 7.32 films | 7.11 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Passerby (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Doctor Strange
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
2020Mogul Mowgli
The current state of the argument, as Surgical Assistant.
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 Physio Patient (uncredited)
Directed by Scott Derrickson
as Screaming Woman
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
as Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Directed by David Leitch
as Fun Fair Attendee (uncredited)
Directed by Tim Burton
as Surgical Assistant
Directed by Bassam Tariq
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
Physio Patient (uncredited)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Physio Patient (uncredited) gives Jill Buchanan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Screaming Woman
The Old Guard (2020)
Performance score7.0
The Old Guard asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Screaming Woman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Performance score6.9
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Prison Visitor (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fun Fair Attendee (uncredited)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Performance score6.9
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fun Fair Attendee (uncredited) 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 Physio Patient (uncredited)
Start here. Doctor Strange is the clearest statement of what Jill Buchanan does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jill 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.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Keeps the fantasy register of Doctor Strange but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Old Guard (2020)
Keeps the action register of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mogul Mowgli (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Old Guard — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Strange
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Bassam Tariq
Director
1 film together
Notably Mogul Mowgli
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Old Guard
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Scott Derrickson
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 StrangeGina Prince-Bythewood
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Old GuardDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Secret of the TombBassam Tariq
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mogul MowgliSix 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
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mogul Mowgli
as Surgical Assistant
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 Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
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. Jill Buchanan 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.
Fantasy Legend
Awarded
4 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
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mogul Mowgli
as Surgical Assistant
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
as Fun Fair Attendee (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
as Passerby (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Doctor Strange
as Physio Patient (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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