Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12302
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Susan May Pratt works on quiet performance 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.
Susan May Pratt appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Susan. 10 Things I Hate About You is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, transformation, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joel Edgerton, Nicholas Hytner, Gil Junger, Susan May Pratt 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.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) as Mandella · Center Stage (2000) as Maureen Cummings · The Gift (2015) as Rhonda Ryan
Career snapshot
Ranked #12302 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1999–2015
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
10 Things I Hate About You
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
10 Things I Hate About You
Most frequent director
Joel Edgerton
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joel Edgerton
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
1990s
7.2 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. 10 Things I Hate About You, Drive Me Crazy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
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. 10 Things I Hate About You, Drive Me Crazy.
Most productive era
1990s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.22 films | 6.22 films | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.51 film | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 7.22 films | — | — |
| Romance | 7.22 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | 5.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
199910 Things I Hate About You
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mandella. 7.7 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
2015The Gift
The current state of the argument, as Rhonda Ryan.
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 Mandella
Directed by Gil Junger
as Maureen Cummings
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
as Alicia DeGasario
Directed by Unknown
as Rhonda Ryan
Directed by Joel Edgerton
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
Mandella
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mandella gives Susan May Pratt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maureen Cummings
Center Stage (2000)
Performance score7.1
Center Stage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maureen Cummings is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alicia DeGasario
Drive Me Crazy (1999)
Performance score7.0
Drive Me Crazy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alicia DeGasario is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rhonda Ryan
The Gift (2015)
Performance score6.6
The Gift asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rhonda Ryan 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 Mandella
Start here. 10 Things I Hate About You is the clearest statement of what Susan May Pratt does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Susan 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.
Drive Me Crazy (1999)
Keeps the romance register of 10 Things I Hate About You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Center Stage (2000)
Keeps the drama register of Drive Me Crazy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Center Stage but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Gift (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Open Water 2: Adrift but asks for a colder reading of it.
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.
Gil Junger
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10 Things I Hate About YouNicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Center StageJoel Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GiftSix 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
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Center Stage
as Maureen Cummings
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Gift
as Rhonda Ryan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
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. Susan May Pratt 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 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
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Gift
as Rhonda Ryan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Center Stage
as Maureen Cummings
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Gift
as Rhonda Ryan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
10 Things I Hate About You
as Mandella
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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