Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2540
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Emily Osment 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 Osment appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Emily. Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 music, documentary, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Wrench, Rich Correll, Robert Rodriguez, Emily Osment 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.
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023) as Magen Fieramusca · Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026) as Self / Lilly Truscott (archive footage) · Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana (2009) as Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle
Career snapshot
Ranked #2540 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
Most frequent director
Robert Rodriguez
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Robert Rodriguez
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 19m
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
2020s
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special, Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard, A Very Merry Bridesmaid — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
Most productive era
2000s
4 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 8.41 film |
| Action | 5.42 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 8.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.14 films | 6.31 film |
| Crime | — | 8.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gerti Giggles.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
8.4 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
2026Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
The current state of the argument, as Self / Lilly Truscott (archive footage).
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.
7 of 7 films
as Magen Fieramusca
Directed by Unknown
as Self / Lilly Truscott (archive footage)
Directed by Sam Wrench
as Leah Taylor
Directed by Unknown
as Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle
Directed by Rich Correll
as Additional Voices (voice)
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
Magen Fieramusca
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Magen Fieramusca gives Emily Osment a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self / Lilly Truscott (archive footage)
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)
Performance score7.1
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self / Lilly Truscott (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Leah Taylor
A Very Merry Bridesmaid (2021)
Performance score7.0
A Very Merry Bridesmaid asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leah Taylor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana (2009)
Performance score6.9
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle 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 Magen Fieramusca
Start here. Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard is the clearest statement of what Emily Osment does — accessible, 87 minutes, and rated 8.4 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.
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Same director as Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana (2009)
Keeps the comedy register of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Very Merry Bridesmaid (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)
A deliberate change of key after A Very Merry Bridesmaid — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Rodriguez
Director
2 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost DreamsSam Wrench
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary SpecialRich Correll
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wizards on Deck with Hannah MontanaSix 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
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Very Merry Bridesmaid
as Leah Taylor
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
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 Osment 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
24 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.
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
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Very Merry Bridesmaid
as Leah Taylor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard
as Magen Fieramusca
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Gerti Giggles
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana
as Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
as Gerti Giggles
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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