Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14035
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Suehyla El-Attar Young 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.
Suehyla El-Attar Young appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Suehyla. Green Book is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Kirkby, Tim Hill, Peter Farrelly and others, Suehyla El-Attar Young 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.
Green Book (2018) as Lynn Venere · I, Tonya (2017) as Skater Mom · The Good Lie (2014) as Immigration Official
Career snapshot
Ranked #14035 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2014–2024
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Green Book
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Green Book
Most frequent director
Craig Gillespie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Craig Gillespie
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Poms, Green Book, Ant-Man and the Wasp — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Poms, Green Book, Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 7.35 films | — |
| Action | 6.52 films | 5.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | 7.24 films | 6.22 films |
| Crime | — | 5.82 films |
| Horror | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Julie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Green Book
8.4 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
2024Brothers
The current state of the argument, as Waitress.
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 Lynn Venere
Directed by Peter Farrelly
as Skater Mom
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Immigration Official
Directed by Unknown
as Agent Pearson
Directed by Peyton Reed
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
Lynn Venere
Green Book (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lynn Venere gives Suehyla El-Attar Young a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Skater Mom
I, Tonya (2017)
Performance score7.3
I, Tonya asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Skater Mom is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Immigration Official
The Good Lie (2014)
Performance score7.3
The Good Lie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Immigration Official is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Agent Pearson
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Performance score6.8
Ant-Man and the Wasp asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agent Pearson 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 Lynn Venere
Start here. Green Book is the clearest statement of what Suehyla El-Attar Young does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Suehyla 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 Good Lie (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Green Book but asks for a colder reading of it.
I, Tonya (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Good Lie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
A deliberate change of key after I, Tonya — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Poms (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Ant-Man and the Wasp — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together
Notably I, Tonya
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Allegiant
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Book
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The War with Grandpa
Tim Kirkby
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Looks
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
I, TonyaPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green BookPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the WaspTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The War with GrandpaRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AllegiantTim Kirkby
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last LooksSix 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
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Allegiant
as Fringe Parent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
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. Suehyla El-Attar Young 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Allegiant
as Fringe Parent
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ant-Man and the Wasp
as Agent Pearson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Green Book
as Lynn Venere
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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