Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#40572
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tegan Moss represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Tegan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tegan Moss appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tegan. Mystery 101: Dead Talk 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, 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, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mike Rohl, Rich Newey, Martin Wood and others, Tegan Moss 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.
Mystery 101: Dead Talk (2019) as Rachel Knox · Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020) as Amy Landon · Little Women (1994) as Minnie Kirk
Career snapshot
Ranked #40572 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1993–2021
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
Most frequent director
Mike Rohl
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mike Rohl
Most common genre
Romance
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
6.5
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. Mystery 101: Dead Talk, Valentine in the Vineyard, Charlie St. Cloud — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 3 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
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Little Women, Look Who's Talking Now!.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 7.31 film | 5.91 film | 7.01 film | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.82 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Crime | — | — | 7.51 film | 7.31 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | — | 6.52 films | 6.42 films |
| Horror | — | 5.82 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Girl with Puppy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2021A Christmas Miracle for Daisy
The current state of the argument, as Andi Buchanan.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Rachel Knox
Directed by Winnifred Jong
as Amy Landon
Directed by Martin Wood
as Minnie Kirk
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.
Loading credits…
The defining work
#1
Rachel Knox
Mystery 101: Dead Talk (2019)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rachel Knox gives Tegan Moss a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Amy Landon
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
Performance score7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amy Landon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Minnie Kirk
Little Women (1994)
Performance score7.2
Little Women asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Minnie Kirk is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Cindy
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Performance score6.9
Charlie St. Cloud asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cindy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Rachel Knox
Start here. Mystery 101: Dead Talk is the clearest statement of what Tegan Moss does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tegan 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.
Little Women (1994)
A deliberate change of key after Mystery 101: Dead Talk — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Keeps the romance register of Little Women but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Charlie St. Cloud but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Little Christmas Charm (2020)
Keeps the tv movie register of Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Patrick Lussier
Director
1 film together
Notably White Noise 2: The Light
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie St. Cloud
Terry Ingram
Director
1 film together
Notably Valentine in the Vineyard
Winnifred Jong
Director
1 film together
Notably Mystery 101: Dead Talk
Martin Wood
Director
1 film together
Notably Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Rich Newey
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Christmas Charm
Mike Rohl
Director
1 film together
Notably A Christmas Miracle for Daisy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Winnifred Jong
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mystery 101: Dead TalkMartin Wood
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So DeadlyBurr Steers
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie St. CloudRich Newey
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Christmas CharmTerry Ingram
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valentine in the VineyardMike Rohl
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Christmas Miracle for DaisyPatrick Lussier
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Noise 2: The LightSix 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
Little Women
as Minnie Kirk
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Women
as Minnie Kirk
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Little Women
as Minnie Kirk
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Little Women
as Minnie Kirk
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
as Rachel Knox
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. Tegan Moss 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
28 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.
Romance Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in romance, 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
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
as Rachel Knox
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
as Rachel Knox
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charlie St. Cloud
as Cindy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
as Rachel Knox
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
as Rachel Knox
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Charlie St. Cloud
as Cindy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charlie St. Cloud
as Cindy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
White Noise 2: The Light
as Liz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
If you like this performer
Michael Caine
Built a career in the same territory: drama and thriller
Tom Hanks
Built a career in the same territory: family and comedy
Bonnie Hunt
Built a career in the same territory: family and comedy
Morgan Freeman
Built a career in the same territory: crime and drama
Zach Grenier
Built a career in the same territory: crime and mystery
Richmond Arquette
Built a career in the same territory: crime and mystery
Have your say
Community
Which Tegan Moss performance holds up best?
Our readers argue about this one. Make your case, or read the ranked debate already in progress.
Join the conversation
Reference
Continue exploring
Trending performers
Directors they work with
Collections to read next
