Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7061
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hattie Morahan 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.
Hattie Morahan appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hattie. Enola Holmes is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 Philip Barantini, Jamie Payne, John Madden and others, Hattie Morahan 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.
Enola Holmes (2020) as Lady Tewkesbury · Official Secrets (2019) as Yvonne Ridley · Beauty and the Beast (2017) as Agathe / Enchantress
Career snapshot
Ranked #7061 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Enola Holmes
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Enola Holmes
Most frequent director
Bill Condon
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bill Condon
Most common genre
Mystery
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
6.5
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Official Secrets, Beauty and the Beast, Alice Through the Looking Glass — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. The Bank Job, The Golden Compass.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.82 films | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 7.21 film | 6.61 film |
| Crime | 6.91 film | — | 6.93 films |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sister Clara.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Official Secrets
7.2 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
2026Enola Holmes 3
The current state of the argument, as Lady Tewkesbury.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Lady Tewkesbury
Directed by Harry Bradbeer
as Yvonne Ridley
Directed by Gavin Hood
as Agathe / Enchantress
Directed by Bill Condon
as Lady Tewkesbury
Directed by Philip Barantini
as Corinne Aldrich
Directed by Jamie Payne
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
Lady Tewkesbury
Enola Holmes (2020)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lady Tewkesbury gives Hattie Morahan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Yvonne Ridley
Official Secrets (2019)
Performance score7.1
Official Secrets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yvonne Ridley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Agathe / Enchantress
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Performance score6.9
Beauty and the Beast asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agathe / Enchantress is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lady Tewkesbury
Enola Holmes 3 (2026)
Performance score6.8
Enola Holmes 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lady Tewkesbury 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 Lady Tewkesbury
Start here. Enola Holmes is the clearest statement of what Hattie Morahan does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hattie 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.
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Enola Holmes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Official Secrets (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Beauty and the Beast — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
Keeps the thriller register of Official Secrets but asks for a colder reading of it.
Enola Holmes 3 (2026)
Keeps the mystery register of Luther: The Fallen Sun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Golden Compass
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bank Job
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Official Secrets
Harry Bradbeer
Director
1 film together
Notably Enola Holmes
John Madden
Director
1 film together
Notably Operation Mincemeat
Jamie Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably Luther: The Fallen Sun
Philip Barantini
Director
1 film together
Notably Enola Holmes 3
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastHarry 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 HolmesGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Official SecretsPhilip Barantini
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Enola Holmes 3Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bank JobJamie Payne
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Luther: The Fallen SunJames 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 GlassJohn Madden
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Operation MincemeatChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Golden CompassSix 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
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Official Secrets
as Yvonne Ridley
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Official Secrets
as Yvonne Ridley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Golden Compass
as Sister Clara
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
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. Hattie Morahan 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.
Mystery Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in mystery, 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
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Official Secrets
as Yvonne Ridley
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Enola Holmes
as Lady Tewkesbury
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Golden Compass
as Sister Clara
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Official Secrets
as Yvonne Ridley
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Enola Holmes 3
as Lady Tewkesbury
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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