Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#22500
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Geraldine McEwan 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.
Geraldine McEwan appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Geraldine. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nick Park, Mira Nair, Julie Taymor and others, Geraldine McEwan 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.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) as Miss Thripp (voice) · Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) as Mortianna · Henry V (1989) as Alice
Career snapshot
Ranked #22500 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1989–2005
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Most frequent director
Nick Park
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nick Park
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
2h 14m
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
1980s
6.9 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Henry V — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Henry V.
Most productive era
1990s
2 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.72 films | 5.81 film |
| Action | — | 6.91 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.11 film |
| Romance | — | — | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1989Henry V
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alice.
Career peak
1991Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
7.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Miss Thripp (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.
5 of 5 films
as Mortianna
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
as Miss Thripp (voice)
Directed by Nick Park
as Alice
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
as Lady Southdown
Directed by Mira Nair
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
Mortianna
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mortianna gives Geraldine McEwan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Miss Thripp (voice)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Performance score7.0
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miss Thripp (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alice
Henry V (1989)
Performance score6.8
Henry V asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lady Southdown
Vanity Fair (2004)
Performance score6.5
Vanity Fair asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lady Southdown 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 Mortianna
Start here. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is the clearest statement of what Geraldine McEwan does — accessible, 143 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Geraldine 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.
Henry V (1989)
Keeps the drama register of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Titus (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Henry V but asks for a colder reading of it.
Vanity Fair (2004)
Keeps the drama register of Titus but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Vanity Fair — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Henry V
Kevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably Titus
Mira Nair
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanity Fair
Nick Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nick Park
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitKevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Henry VJulie Taymor
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TitusMira Nair
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vanity FairSix 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
Henry V
as Alice
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Titus
as Nurse
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Thripp (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Henry V
as Alice
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
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. Geraldine McEwan 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Thripp (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Vanity Fair
as Lady Southdown
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Thripp (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Mortianna
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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