Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11271
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hermione Corfield 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.
Hermione Corfield appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hermione. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 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, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, horror, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Renny Harlin, Neasa Hardiman, Jen McGowan and others, Hermione Corfield 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.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) as Record Shop Girl · Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) as A-Wing Pilot Tallie · The Road Dance (2022) as Kirsty MacLeod
Career snapshot
Ranked #11271 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Most frequent director
Renny Harlin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Renny Harlin
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Rust Creek, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Star Wars: The Last Jedi — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Rust Creek, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.53 films | 6.42 films |
| Action | 6.55 films | 5.82 films |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 5.93 films |
| Comedy | 5.92 films | — |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | 5.92 films | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2015Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Record Shop Girl. 7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022The Road Dance
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Fear Below
The current state of the argument, as Clara Bennett.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Kirsty MacLeod
Directed by Unknown
as Record Shop Girl
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
as Sawyer
Directed by Jen McGowan
as A-Wing Pilot Tallie
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Clara Bennett
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
Kirsty MacLeod
The Road Dance (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kirsty MacLeod gives Hermione Corfield a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Record Shop Girl
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Performance score7.1
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Record Shop Girl is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sawyer
Rust Creek (2019)
Performance score7.0
Rust Creek asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sawyer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A-Wing Pilot Tallie
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Performance score6.9
Star Wars: The Last Jedi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. A-Wing Pilot Tallie 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 Kirsty MacLeod
Start here. The Road Dance is the clearest statement of what Hermione Corfield does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hermione 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.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Road Dance — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Keeps the action register of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rust Creek (2019)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars: The Last Jedi but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fear Below (2025)
Keeps the action register of Rust Creek but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Holmes
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Burr Steers
Director
1 film together
Notably Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jen McGowan
Director
1 film together
Notably Rust Creek
Neasa Hardiman
Director
1 film together
Notably Sea Fever
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Misfits
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Rogue NationRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Last JediGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King Arthur: Legend of the SwordBill 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. HolmesJen McGowan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rust CreekBurr Steers
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesNeasa Hardiman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sea FeverRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MisfitsSix 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
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
as Record Shop Girl
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Cassandra Featherstone
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
as Record Shop Girl
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as A-Wing Pilot Tallie
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Road Dance
as Kirsty MacLeod
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. Hermione Corfield 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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
Mr. Holmes
as Matinee "Ann Kelmot"
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rust Creek
as Sawyer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Cassandra Featherstone
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sea Fever
as Siobhán
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
as Record Shop Girl
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as A-Wing Pilot Tallie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rust Creek
as Sawyer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as A-Wing Pilot Tallie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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