Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6138
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Edi Patterson 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.
Edi Patterson appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Edi. Knives Out is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Will Ropp, David Gordon Green, Jared Hess and others, Edi Patterson 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.
Knives Out (2019) as Fran · We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020) as Additional Voices (voice) · Violent Night (2022) as Alva
Career snapshot
Ranked #6138 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Knives Out
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
We Bare Bears: The Movie
Most frequent director
Will Ropp
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Will Ropp
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.2
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. Knives Out, Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Troop Zero — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Knives Out, Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Troop Zero.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 6.52 films | 6.43 films |
| Action | — | 7.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.84 films | 5.45 films |
| Crime | 8.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012A Thousand Words
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Female Agent.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Knives Out
8.0 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
2026Brian
The current state of the argument, as Mrs. Ballard.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Fran
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Alva
Directed by Unknown
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Megan (voice)
Directed by Jared Hess
as Miss Aimee
Directed by Bert
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
Fran
Knives Out (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fran gives Edi Patterson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alva
Violent Night (2022)
Performance score7.3
Violent Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alva is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Performance score7.3
We Bare Bears: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Megan (voice)
Thelma the Unicorn (2024)
Performance score7.1
Thelma the Unicorn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Megan (voice) 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 Fran
Start here. Knives Out is the clearest statement of what Edi Patterson does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Edi 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.
Troop Zero (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Knives Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Troop Zero but asks for a colder reading of it.
Violent Night (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of We Bare Bears: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Thelma the Unicorn (2024)
Keeps the fantasy register of Violent Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably A Thousand Words
Bert
Director
1 film together
Notably Troop Zero
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Knives Out
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bare Bears: The Movie
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Starling
Natalie Morales
Director
1 film together
Notably Plan B
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Guilty
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Thelma the Unicorn
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Nutcrackers
Will Ropp
Director
1 film together
Notably Brian
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knives OutDaniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bare Bears: The MovieBert
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Troop ZeroJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thelma the UnicornTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The StarlingAntoine Fuqua
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 GuiltyNatalie Morales
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plan BBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Thousand WordsDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NutcrackersScott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieWill Ropp
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrianSix 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
Knives Out
as Fran
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Thelma the Unicorn
as Megan (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Knives Out
as Fran
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Shiri Clarts
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Knives Out
as Fran
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. Edi Patterson 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
9 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
Knives Out
as Fran
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Knives Out
as Fran
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thelma the Unicorn
as Megan (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Knives Out
as Fran
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Violent Night
as Alva
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Violent Night
as Alva
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Thousand Words
as Young Female Agent
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Knives Out
as Fran
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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