Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emily Blunt 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.
Emily Blunt appears in 46 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emily. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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 science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Krasinski, Steven Spielberg, Morgan Neville and others, Emily Blunt 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Kitty Oppenheimer · Oppenheimer (2023) as Kitty Oppenheimer · The Devil Wears Prada (2006) as Emily
Career snapshot
Ranked #26 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
46
2005–2027
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
John Krasinski
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With John Krasinski
Most common genre
Comedy
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.6
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
2020s
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A Quiet Place Part III, Disclosure Day, Lorne — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
7 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. A Quiet Place Part III, Disclosure Day, Lorne.
Most productive era
2010s
21 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.77 films | 6.35 films | 7.16 films |
| Action | — | 6.95 films | 6.72 films |
| Thriller | 5.81 film | 6.94 films | 6.04 films |
| Comedy | 6.76 films | 6.210 films | 7.14 films |
| Crime | — | 6.92 films | — |
| Romance | 6.64 films | 6.43 films | 6.22 films |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 6.72 films | 3.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tamsin.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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
The current state of the argument, as Evelyn Abbott.
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.
46 of 46 films
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Margaret Fairchild
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Evelyn Abbott
Directed by John Krasinski
as Evelyn Abbott
Directed by John Krasinski
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 52 titles · 54 total credits · active 1989–2027
A Quiet Place Part III
2027 · Evelyn Abbott
Disclosure Day
2026 · Margaret Fairchild
Lorne
2026 · Self (uncredited)
The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 · Emily
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere
2026 · Self
The Smashing Machine
2025 · Dawn Staples
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 · Self
The Fall Guy
2024 · Jody Moreno
IF
2024 · Unicorn (voice)
Oppenheimer
2023 · Kitty Oppenheimer
Pain Hustlers
2023 · Liza Drake · Executive Producer
Encyclopedia of Useless Facts Around The Earth
2023 · TV · Self
The English
2022 · TV · Lady Cornelia Locke · Executive Producer
A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Evelyn Abbott
Jungle Cruise
2021 · Dr. Lily Houghton
David Blaine: The Magic Way
2020 · Self
Wild Mountain Thyme
2020 · Rosemary
A Quiet Place
2018 · Evelyn Abbott
Sherlock Gnomes
2018 · Juliet (voice)
Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · Mary Poppins
Animal Crackers
2018 · Zoe Huntington (voice)
My Little Pony: The Movie
2017 · Tempest Shadow / Fizzlepop Berrytwist (voice)
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · Freya
The Girl on the Train
2016 · Rachel Watson
The defining work
#1
Kitty Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score9.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kitty Oppenheimer gives Emily Blunt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kitty Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.4
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kitty Oppenheimer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Margaret Fairchild
Disclosure Day (2026)
Performance score8.1
Disclosure Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Margaret Fairchild is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Evelyn Abbott
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Performance score8.0
A Quiet Place Part II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Evelyn Abbott 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 Kitty Oppenheimer
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Emily Blunt does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Emily 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.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Same director as A Quiet Place, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after A Quiet Place Part II — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Disclosure Day (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Krasinski
Director
4 films together
Notably A Quiet Place Part II
Rob Marshall
Director
2 films together
Notably Mary Poppins Returns
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Frankel
Director
2 films together
Notably The Devil Wears Prada
Robin Swicord
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jane Austen Book Club
Gregory Jacobs
Director
1 film together
Notably Wind Chill
Peter Hedges
Director
1 film together
Notably Dan in Real Life
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie Wilson's War
Jean-Marc Vallée
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young Victoria
Jonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Target
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gulliver's Travels
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolfman
Lynn Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Sister's Sister
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppets
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Gnomeo & Juliet
George Nolfi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adjustment Bureau
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Looper
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Five-Year Engagement
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Edge of Tomorrow
Denis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together
Notably Sicario
Tate Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl on the Train
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Huntsman: Winter's War
Jayson Thiessen
Director
1 film together
Notably My Little Pony: The Movie
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Crackers
John Stevenson
Director
1 film together
Notably Sherlock Gnomes
John Patrick Shanley
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Mountain Thyme
Matthew Akers
Director
1 film together
Notably David Blaine: The Magic Way
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungle Cruise
David Yates
Director
1 film together
Notably Pain Hustlers
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fall Guy
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Smashing Machine
Morgan Neville
Director
1 film together
Notably Lorne
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Disclosure Day
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rami Malek
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Dylan Arnold
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Krasinski
Director
4 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Quiet Place Part IIChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerDavid Frankel
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Devil Wears PradaRob Marshall
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Mary Poppins ReturnsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disclosure DayDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Edge of TomorrowDenis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SicarioJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jungle CruiseJayson Thiessen
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Little Pony: The MovieJean-Marc Vallée
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Young VictoriaDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fall GuyRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LooperMorgan Neville
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LorneGeorge Nolfi
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adjustment BureauJames Bobin
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 MuppetsDavid Yates
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pain HustlersMatthew Akers
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
David Blaine: The Magic WayMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie Wilson's WarPeter Hedges
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dan in Real LifeLynn Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your Sister's SisterJonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild TargetRobin Swicord
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Jane Austen Book ClubBenny Safdie
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 Smashing MachineTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal CrackersTate Taylor
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 Girl on the TrainLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Salmon Fishing in the YemenCedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Huntsman: Winter's WarNicholas Stoller
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 Five-Year EngagementKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gnomeo & JulietJoe 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 WolfmanGregory Jacobs
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wind ChillJohn Stevenson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sherlock GnomesJohn Patrick Shanley
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild Mountain ThymeRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gulliver's TravelsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
12 wins · 1 nomination
1 win · 1 nomination · latest 2024
Oppenheimer
as Actor
1 win · latest 2007
as Actor
2 wins · latest 2024
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2015
as Actor
2 wins · latest 2024
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2012
as Actor
1 win · latest 2007
as Actor
1 win · latest 2007
as Actor
1 win · latest 2015
as Actor
1 win · latest 2026
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lorne
as Self (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
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. Emily Blunt has known it for a long time.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #360 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Drama | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2023–2023 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Kitty Oppenheimer — Oppenheimer | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Oppenheimer | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
20 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
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Girl on the Train
as Rachel Watson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Freya
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Charlie Wilson's War
as Jane Liddle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Kitty Oppenheimer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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