Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3802
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sarah-Jane Redmond represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Sarah-Jane is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Sarah-Jane Redmond appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sarah-Jane. A Royal Runaway Romance is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with J.C. Lee, Ben Ketai, Christian Alvart and others, Sarah-Jane Redmond 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.
A Royal Runaway Romance (2022) as Ava · Bad Genius (2024) as Irene Walsh · Undercover Cheerleader (2019) as Coach Dot
Career snapshot
Ranked #3802 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1998–2024
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
A Royal Runaway Romance
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
A Royal Runaway Romance
Most frequent director
J.C. Lee
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With J.C. Lee
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
2020s
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Boot Camp, Bad Genius, A Royal Runaway Romance — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. Disturbing Behavior.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.51 film | 6.51 film | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film | 5.01 film | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film | — | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | — | 6.72 films |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 6.31 film | 5.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miss Perkins.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2024Bad Genius
The current state of the argument, as Irene Walsh.
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 Ava
Directed by Unknown
as Irene Walsh
Directed by J.C. Lee
as Coach Dot
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
Ava
A Royal Runaway Romance (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ava gives Sarah-Jane Redmond a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Irene Walsh
Bad Genius (2024)
Performance score7.0
Bad Genius asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Irene Walsh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Coach Dot
Undercover Cheerleader (2019)
Performance score6.7
Undercover Cheerleader asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coach Dot is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Carmichael
Boot Camp (2024)
Performance score6.5
Boot Camp asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Carmichael 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 Ava
Start here. A Royal Runaway Romance is the clearest statement of what Sarah-Jane Redmond does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sarah-Jane 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.
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
A deliberate change of key after A Royal Runaway Romance — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Undercover Cheerleader (2019)
A deliberate change of key after 30 Days of Night: Dark Days — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bad Genius (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Undercover Cheerleader but asks for a colder reading of it.
Boot Camp (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Bad Genius — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Nutter
Director
1 film together
Notably Disturbing Behavior
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Christian Alvart
Director
1 film together
Notably Case 39
Ben Ketai
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
J.C. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Genius
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.C. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad GeniusKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsChristian Alvart
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Case 39David Nutter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disturbing BehaviorBen Ketai
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Days of Night: Dark DaysSix 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
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Case 39
as Barron's Wife
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
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. Sarah-Jane Redmond 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
26 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
4 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
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Case 39
as Barron's Wife
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Case 39
as Barron's Wife
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bad Genius
as Irene Walsh
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Royal Runaway Romance
as Ava
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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