Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2565
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charlene Amoia 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.
Charlene Amoia appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charlene. Have We Met This Christmas? is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Tiddes, Fred Olen Ray, Julius Onah and others, Charlene Amoia 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.
Have We Met This Christmas? (2025) as Dr. Blair · The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) as Judy Glatzel · Fear Street: 1666 (2021) as Beth Kimball / Rachel Thompson
Career snapshot
Ranked #2565 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Have We Met This Christmas?
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Have We Met This Christmas?
Most frequent director
Fred Olen Ray
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Fred Olen Ray
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.3
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. American Reunion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. American Reunion.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | — | 3.14 films |
| Action | — | 6.91 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 5.54 films |
| Crime | — | 3.93 films |
| Romance | — | 8.32 films |
| Horror | — | 6.74 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012American Reunion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ellie.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Have We Met This Christmas?
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026Samo Lives
The current state of the argument, as Fay.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Dr. Blair
Directed by Unknown
as Judy Glatzel
Directed by Michael Chaves
as Beth Kimball / Rachel Thompson
Directed by Leigh Janiak
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
Dr. Blair
Have We Met This Christmas? (2025)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Blair gives Charlene Amoia a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Judy Glatzel
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judy Glatzel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jill
A Royal Christmas Tail (2025)
Performance score7.1
A Royal Christmas Tail asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jill is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beth Kimball / Rachel Thompson
Fear Street: 1666 (2021)
Performance score7.0
Fear Street: 1666 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beth Kimball / Rachel Thompson 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 Dr. Blair
Start here. Have We Met This Christmas? is the clearest statement of what Charlene Amoia does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charlene 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.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Have We Met This Christmas? — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Fear Street: 1666 (2021)
Keeps the mystery register of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Royal Christmas Tail (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Fear Street: 1666 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Leigh Janiak
Director
2 films together
Notably Fear Street: 1666
Fred Olen Ray
Director
2 films together
Notably A Royal Christmas Tail
Jon Hurwitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Reunion
Cathy Yan
Director
1 film together
Notably Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Michael Chaves
Director
1 film together
Notably The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Peter Cilella
Director
1 film together
Notably Descendent
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Samo Lives
Michael Tiddes
Director
1 film together
Notably Scary Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Leigh Janiak
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fear Street: 1666Fred Olen Ray
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Royal Christmas TailMichael Chaves
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do ItCathy Yan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)Michael Tiddes
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scary MovieJon Hurwitz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American ReunionPeter Cilella
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DescendentJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Samo LivesSix 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
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
as Maria Bertinelli
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
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. Charlene Amoia 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
5 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
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
as Judy Glatzel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
as Maria Bertinelli
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Have We Met This Christmas?
as Dr. Blair
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Scary Movie
as Pearl Lady
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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