Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12607
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Meredith Salenger represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 42 years in, and Meredith is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Meredith Salenger appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Meredith. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 comedy, horror, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Maureen Bharoocha, Chris Renaud, Aaron Horvath and others, Meredith Salenger 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.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) as Supergirl (voice) · The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) as Cat Lady (voice) · Annie (1982) as Dancer / Orphan (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #12607 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1982–2024
Career length
42 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Most frequent director
Maureen Bharoocha
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Maureen Bharoocha
Most common genre
Comedy
4 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
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
6.7
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Secret Life of Pets 2, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films 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
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Annie.
Most productive era
2010s
2 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 | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Action | — | 5.81 film | 7.21 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film | — | 5.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — | 7.12 films | 5.61 film |
| Crime | — | — | — | 5.61 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982Annie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dancer / Orphan (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
7.2 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
2024The Prank
The current state of the argument, as Julie Palmer.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Supergirl (voice)
Directed by Aaron Horvath
as Cat Lady (voice)
Directed by Chris Renaud
as Dancer / Orphan (uncredited)
Directed by John Huston
as Julie Palmer
Directed by Maureen Bharoocha
as Natalie Gann
Directed by Andy Fickman
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
Supergirl (voice)
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Supergirl (voice) gives Meredith Salenger a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cat Lady (voice)
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
Performance score6.9
The Secret Life of Pets 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cat Lady (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dancer / Orphan (uncredited)
Annie (1982)
Performance score6.6
Annie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dancer / Orphan (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Julie Palmer
The Prank (2024)
Performance score6.5
The Prank asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julie Palmer 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 Supergirl (voice)
Start here. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is the clearest statement of what Meredith Salenger does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Meredith 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.
Annie (1982)
Keeps the comedy register of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies but asks for a colder reading of it.
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
Keeps the family register of Annie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of Race to Witch Mountain but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Prank (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The Secret Life of Pets 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Huston
Director
1 film together
Notably Annie
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Race to Witch Mountain
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Maureen Bharoocha
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prank
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Aaron Horvath
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! To the MoviesChris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2John Huston
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnieAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Race to Witch MountainMaureen Bharoocha
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PrankSix 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
Annie
as Dancer / Orphan (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
The Secret Life of Pets 2
as Cat Lady (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
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Supergirl (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Annie
as Dancer / Orphan (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Supergirl (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
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Meredith Salenger 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
42 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Supergirl (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Supergirl (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret Life of Pets 2
as Cat Lady (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Prank
as Julie Palmer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
as Supergirl (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Race to Witch Mountain
as Natalie Gann
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Life of Pets 2
as Cat Lady (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Secret Life of Pets 2
as Cat Lady (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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