Juno Temple

Performer

Juno Temple

A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.

Born
21 July 1989
Age
37
Nationality
British
Active
2006–present
Performances
36
In Nutevio
2006–present
Known for
Swapped
Performer Score
6.8
  • Horror Icon
  • Action Legend
  • Modern Classic
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Nutevio rank

#433

of 909177 performers

Top 1%

Juno Temple works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
Ranked #433 of 909177 performers in the Nutevio catalogue. Recalculated automatically as titles and credits are imported.

The essay

Reading Juno Temple

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this performer matters

Juno Temple appears in 36 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Juno. Swapped is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.

Signature style

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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.

Legacy

Working with Nathan Greno, Gore Verbinski, Derek Cianfrance and others, Juno Temple 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.

Best known for

Swapped (2026) as Ivy (voice) · The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Jen · Palmer (2021) as Shelly

Career snapshot

The career at a glance

Ranked #433 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.

  • Films in Nutevio

    36

    2006–2026

  • Career length

    20 yrs

    Measured across our catalogue

  • Academy Awards

    Unknown

  • Oscar nominations

    Unknown

  • Highest Nutevio score

    8.6

    Swapped

  • Average Nutevio score

    6.5

    Across catalogue work

  • Highest IMDb rating

    8.9

    Swapped

  • Most frequent director

    Oliver Parker

    2 films together

  • Longest collaboration

    With Oliver Parker

  • Most common genre

    Drama

    21 titles

  • Average runtime

    1h 46m

    Across catalogue work

  • Golden Globe wins

    Unknown

Nutevio metric

Performer Score

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.

  • Performance quality6.5
  • Consistency6.4
  • Emotional range7.2
  • Character transformation7.3
  • Cultural impact6.4
  • Iconic roles6.4
  • Career longevity8.0
  • Influence6.4
  • Awards recognition6.5
  • Rewatch value6.4

Nutevio metric

Influence Score

Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.

Nutevio Influence Score

6.5

out of 10

A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.

  • Cultural impact5.8

    How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.

  • Legacy6.3

    What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.

  • Industry recognition6.6

    Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.

  • Career longevity8.0

    Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.

  • Awards6.4

    Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.

  • Iconic performances7.5

    Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.

  • Influence on filmmakers5.9

    Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.

  • Influence on other actors5.9

    The reading other performers now have to answer.

Actor DNA

How they work on screen

A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.

  • Versatility99
  • Transformation99
  • Quiet performance92
  • Screen presence68
  • Drama66
  • Emotional range65
  • Rewatchability63
  • Charisma61
  • Intensity31
  • Physical performance30
  • Comedy28
  • Villain presence27
  • Action25

The shape of a career

Career evolution

Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.

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  • Nutevio
  • Performance score
  • IMDb

Peak years

Best era

Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.

Best decade

2020s

7.0 average MV

The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Swapped, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, Roofman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.

Highest average Nutevio score

2020s

7.0

Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.

Highest average IMDb rating

2020s

7.0

The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.

Most awarded era

2000s

0 Academy Awards

Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Mr. Nobody, Year One, Cracks.

Most productive era

2010s

20 films

The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.

Range, mapped

Career heatmap

Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.

The career concentrates in drama during the 2010s, and the scores hold there.
Genre2000s2010s2020s
Drama
7.16 films
6.412 films
6.73 films
Action
6.84 films
6.92 films
Thriller
6.61 film
6.38 films
Comedy
5.84 films
5.96 films
7.12 films
Crime
6.66 films
7.11 film
Romance
7.25 films
6.64 films
Horror
6.31 film

Chronology

Career timeline

Firsts and peaks

Career milestones

The turning points, in the order they happened.

  1. First film in Nutevio

    2006Notes on a Scandal

    Where our catalogue meets this career, as Polly Hart.

  2. Highest rated performance · Career peak

    2026Swapped

    8.6 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.

  3. Most recent film

    2026Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    The current state of the argument, as Susan.

Our order

Performances ranked

Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.

1
Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

2026 · Fantasy

1h 42m

8.9IMDb
2
Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises

2012 · Action

2h 45m

7.8IMDb
3
Official poster for Palmer (2021)

Palmer

2021 · Drama

1h 50m

8.1IMDb
4
Official poster for Mr. Nobody (2009)

Mr. Nobody

2009 · Romance

2h 21m

7.8IMDb
5
Official poster for Atonement (2007)

Atonement

2007 · Romance

2h 3m

7.6IMDb
6
Official poster for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2019 · Fantasy

1h 59m

7.3IMDb
7
Official poster for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

2026 · Action

2h 14m

7.1IMDb
8
Official poster for Roofman (2025)

Roofman

2025 · Comedy

2h 6m

7.1IMDb
9
Official poster for Maleficent (2014)

Maleficent

2014 · Romance

1h 37m

7.1IMDb
10
Official poster for Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Notes on a Scandal

2006 · Romance

1h 32m

7.1IMDb
11
Official poster for Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015 · Romance

1h 59m

7.0IMDb
12
Official poster for Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Venom: The Last Dance

2024 · Action

1h 49m

6.7IMDb
13
Official poster for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008 · Romance

1h 56m

6.7IMDb
14
Official poster for Wild Child (2008)

Wild Child

2008 · Romance

1h 38m

6.7IMDb
15
Official poster for Cracks (2009)

Cracks

2009 · Mystery

1h 44m

6.6IMDb
16
Official poster for Black Mass (2015)

Black Mass

2015 · Crime

2h 3m

6.5IMDb
17
Official poster for Killer Joe (2012)

Killer Joe

2012 · Crime

1h 42m

6.5IMDb
18
Official poster for Wonder Wheel (2017)

Wonder Wheel

2017 · Romance

1h 41m

6.4IMDb
19
Official poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

2014 · Action

1h 42m

6.4IMDb
20
Official poster for Unsane (2018)

Unsane

2018 · Horror

1h 38m

6.3IMDb
21
Official poster for Horns (2013)

Horns

2013 · Fantasy

2h 0m

6.3IMDb
22
Official poster for The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)

The Most Hated Woman in America

2017 · Crime

1h 31m

6.2IMDb
23
Official poster for Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023)

Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas

2023 · Music

0h 44m

6.1IMDb
24
Official poster for Avenues (2019)

Avenues

2019 · Drama

1h 16m

6.1IMDb
25
Official poster for The Brass Teapot (2012)

The Brass Teapot

2012 · Comedy

1h 40m

6.1IMDb
26
Official poster for Dirty Girl (2010)

Dirty Girl

2010 · Comedy

1h 30m

6.0IMDb
27
Official poster for Greenberg (2010)

Greenberg

2010 · Romance

1h 47m

5.9IMDb
28
Official poster for St Trinian's (2007)

St Trinian's

2007 · Comedy

1h 41m

5.9IMDb
29
Official poster for Small Apartments (2012)

Small Apartments

2012 · Comedy

1h 36m

5.8IMDb
30
Official poster for The Three Musketeers (2011)

The Three Musketeers

2011 · Action

1h 50m

5.8IMDb
31
Official poster for Afternoon Delight (2013)

Afternoon Delight

2013 · Comedy

1h 35m

5.7IMDb
32
Official poster for Kaboom (2010)

Kaboom

2010 · Mystery

1h 26m

5.6IMDb
33
Official poster for St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

2009 · Comedy

1h 46m

5.6IMDb
34
Official poster for Lost Transmissions (2020)

Lost Transmissions

2020 · Drama

1h 45m

5.3IMDb
35
Official poster for Magic Magic (2013)

Magic Magic

2013 · Thriller

1h 37m

5.1IMDb
36
Official poster for Year One (2009)

Year One

2009 · Comedy

1h 37m

5.0IMDb

Every title

Filmography

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36 of 36 films

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

as Ivy (voice)

Directed by Nathan Greno

IMDb8.9Rotten Tomatoes86%Metacritic801h 42mFantasy · Adventure · Family · Animation
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Official poster for Palmer (2021)

Palmer

2021

as Shelly

Directed by Fisher Stevens

IMDb8.1Rotten Tomatoes78%Metacritic731h 50mDrama
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Official poster for Mr. Nobody (2009)

as Anna age 15

Directed by Unknown

IMDb7.8Rotten Tomatoes78%Metacritic722h 21mRomance · Science Fiction · Drama
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The defining work

Signature performances

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

#1

Ivy (voice)

Swapped (2026)

Performance score8.8

The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ivy (voice) gives Juno Temple a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.

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Official poster for Palmer (2021)

#2

Shelly

Palmer (2021)

Performance score8.1

Palmer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shelly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

#3

Jen

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Performance score7.8

The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Official poster for Mr. Nobody (2009)

#4

Anna age 15

Mr. Nobody (2009)

Performance score7.6

Mr. Nobody asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna age 15 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.

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Start here

The movie journey

A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Best entry point

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

Start here. Swapped is the clearest statement of what Juno Temple does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.

Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Juno 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.

  1. Official poster for Mr. Nobody (2009)

    Mr. Nobody (2009)

    A deliberate change of key after Swapped — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.

  2. Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

    The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

    Keeps the drama register of Mr. Nobody but asks for a colder reading of it.

  3. Official poster for Palmer (2021)

    Palmer (2021)

    Keeps the drama register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.

  4. Official poster for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

    A deliberate change of key after Palmer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.

Company kept

Frequent collaborators

The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.

Behind the camera

Director network

Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.

Six degrees

Connected through cinema

Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.

Categories of our own

Most rewatchable, most emotional, most influential

Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.

Most rewatchable

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.

Most emotional performance

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (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

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.

Best ensemble performance

Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises

as Jen

Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.

Career defining performance

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (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

Lines that stay

You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Juno Temple has known it for a long time.

Nutevio Editors · On Swapped

Head to head

Compare performers

Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.

Ours alone

Nutevio Honors

Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.

Career Achievement

Awarded

20 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

21 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.

Our desk

Editor's picks

Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.

Best ending

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.

Best opening

Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises

as Jen

A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.

Most emotional

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.

Best twist

Official poster for Cracks (2009)

Cracks

as Di

A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.

Best visual achievement

Official poster for Swapped (2026)

Swapped

as Ivy (voice)

Images that would survive with the sound switched off.

Best action sequence

Official poster for The Three Musketeers (2011)

The Three Musketeers

as Queen

Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.

Best dialogue

Official poster for Roofman (2025)

Roofman

as Michelle

Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.

Most underrated film

Official poster for The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises

as Jen

The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.

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Quick facts

Born
21 July 1989
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Age
37
Nationality
British
Years active
2006–present
Known for
Swapped
Genres
Fantasy, Adventure, Family
IMDb
nm1017334
Nutevio rank
#433
of 909177 performers tracked

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