Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6782
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Frances de la Tour 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.
Frances de la Tour appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Frances. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 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 mystery, adventure, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Harry Bradbeer, Stephen Gaghan, James Bobin and others, Frances de la Tour 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.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Madame Olympe Maxime · Miss You Already (2015) as Jill · Enola Holmes (2020) as The Dowager
Career snapshot
Ranked #6782 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2005–2020
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Most frequent director
Harry Bradbeer
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Harry Bradbeer
Most common genre
Adventure
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
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
6.4
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
2000s
8.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
8.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.8
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. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | — | 7.03 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.62 films | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | 5.71 film | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Madame Olympe Maxime. 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
2020Dolittle
The current state of the argument, as Dragon (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 Madame Olympe Maxime
Directed by Mike Newell
as Jill
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
as The Dowager
Directed by Harry Bradbeer
as Madame Emilie
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Madame Schirmer
Directed by Bill Condon
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
Madame Olympe Maxime
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madame Olympe Maxime gives Frances de la Tour a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jill
Miss You Already (2015)
Performance score7.5
Miss You Already 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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The Dowager
Enola Holmes (2020)
Performance score7.1
Enola Holmes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Dowager is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Madame Emilie
Hugo (2011)
Performance score7.1
Hugo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Madame Emilie 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 Madame Olympe Maxime
Start here. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the clearest statement of what Frances de la Tour does — accessible, 157 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Frances 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.
Hugo (2011)
Keeps the adventure register of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss You Already (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Hugo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mr. Holmes (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Miss You Already but asks for a colder reading of it.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Keeps the mystery register of Mr. Holmes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Andrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nutcracker
Albert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Eli
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably Hugo
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Into the Woods
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Holmes
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss You Already
James McTeigue
Director
1 film together
Notably Survivor
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
Harry Bradbeer
Director
1 film together
Notably Enola Holmes
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss You AlreadyHarry Bradbeer
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Enola HolmesMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HugoAlbert Hughes
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 Book of EliStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice Through the Looking GlassTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in WonderlandBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. HolmesRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Into the WoodsJames McTeigue
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SurvivorAndrei Konchalovsky
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The NutcrackerSix 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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hugo
as Madame Emilie
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Aunt Imogene
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
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. Frances de la Tour 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Enola Holmes
as The Dowager
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hugo
as Madame Emilie
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Enola Holmes
as The Dowager
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Book of Eli
as Martha
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Miss You Already
as Jill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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