Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#49090
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Lea Hutton Beasmore 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.
Lea Hutton Beasmore appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lea. The Secrets of the Matriarch is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 tv movie, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lisa France, Todd Haynes, Kevin Connolly, Lea Hutton Beasmore 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.
The Secrets of the Matriarch (2026) as Senator's Wife (uncredited) · Dark Waters (2019) as EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited) · Body Swap (2019) as Cafe Patron
Career snapshot
Ranked #49090 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Secrets of the Matriarch
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Dark Waters
Most frequent director
Lisa France
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lisa France
Most common genre
Thriller
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Body Swap, Dark Waters, Gotti — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
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. Body Swap, Dark Waters, Gotti.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.63 films | 5.32 films |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 5.85 films |
| Comedy | 7.31 film | 6.21 film |
| Crime | 5.31 film | — |
| Romance | 7.31 film | 6.21 film |
| Horror | — | 5.13 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Conference Guest (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Dark Waters
7.5 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
2026The Secrets of the Matriarch
The current state of the argument, as Senator's Wife (uncredited).
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.
11 of 11 films
as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Directed by Lisa France
as EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Directed by Todd Haynes
as Conference Guest (uncredited)
Directed by Unknown
as Townspeople
Directed by Unknown
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
Senator's Wife (uncredited)
The Secrets of the Matriarch (2026)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Senator's Wife (uncredited) gives Lea Hutton Beasmore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Dark Waters (2019)
Performance score7.3
Dark Waters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cafe Patron
Body Swap (2019)
Performance score7.2
Body Swap asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cafe Patron is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Conference Guest (uncredited)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Performance score6.9
The Killing of a Sacred Deer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Conference Guest (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 Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Start here. The Secrets of the Matriarch is the clearest statement of what Lea Hutton Beasmore does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lea 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.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Keeps the thriller register of The Secrets of the Matriarch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dark Waters (2019)
Keeps the drama register of The Killing of a Sacred Deer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Body Swap (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Dark Waters — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Love Hunt (2023)
Same director as Body Swap, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lisa France
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secrets of the MatriarchTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WatersKevin Connolly
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GottiSix 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
Dark Waters
as EPA / Dinner Guest (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
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time
as Pedestrian
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dark Waters
as EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dark Waters
as EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Secrets of the Matriarch
as Senator's Wife (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. Lea Hutton Beasmore 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Conference Guest (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Conference Guest (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time
as Pedestrian
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
as Conference Guest (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dark Waters
as EPA / Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time
as Pedestrian
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Gotti
as Juror (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Devil Below
as Militia (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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