Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#580
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emilia Clarke 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.
Emilia Clarke appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emilia. Me Before You is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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, fantasy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Phil Johnston, Brad Baruh, Jeanie Finlay and others, Emilia Clarke 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.
Me Before You (2016) as Louisa 'Lou' Clark · Last Christmas (2019) as Kate Andrich · Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #580 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2013–2025
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Me Before You
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Me Before You
Most frequent director
Phil Johnston
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Phil Johnston
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Above Suspicion, Last Christmas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Above Suspicion, Last Christmas.
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 | 6.74 films | — |
| Action | 6.23 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.83 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.23 films |
| Crime | 5.82 films | — |
| Romance | 7.03 films | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Dom Hemingway
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Evelyn.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Me Before You
8.1 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
2025The Twits
The current state of the argument, as Pippa (voice).
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 Louisa 'Lou' Clark
Directed by Thea Sharrock
as Kate Andrich
Directed by Paul Feig
as Malicia (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Rachel
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.
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The defining work
#1
Louisa 'Lou' Clark
Me Before You (2016)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Louisa 'Lou' Clark gives Emilia Clarke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kate Andrich
Last Christmas (2019)
Performance score7.8
Last Christmas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate Andrich is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
Performance score7.4
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Malicia (voice)
The Amazing Maurice (2022)
Performance score7.0
The Amazing Maurice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Malicia (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 Louisa 'Lou' Clark
Start here. Me Before You is the clearest statement of what Emilia Clarke does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emilia 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.
Last Christmas (2019)
Keeps the romance register of Me Before You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Last Christmas — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Amazing Maurice (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Game of Thrones: The Last Watch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Pod Generation (2023)
Same director as The Amazing Maurice, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Shepard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dom Hemingway
Alan Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Terminator Genisys
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together
Notably Me Before You
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Christmas
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably Above Suspicion
Jeanie Finlay
Director
1 film together
Notably Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twits
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me Before YouPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last ChristmasJeanie Finlay
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game of Thrones: The Last WatchRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StoryAlan Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Terminator GenisysPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TwitsPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Above SuspicionRichard Shepard
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dom HemingwayBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret InvasionSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win · 4 nominations
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 2 nominations
as Actor
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Qi'ra
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
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. Emilia Clarke 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
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Voice from the Stone
as Verena
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Qi'ra
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Amazing Maurice
as Malicia (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Me Before You
as Louisa 'Lou' Clark
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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