Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#433
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Juno Temple 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.
Juno Temple appears in 36 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Juno. Swapped is the clearest case: a film rated 8.6 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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nathan Greno, Gore Verbinski, Derek Cianfrance and others, Juno Temple 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.
Swapped (2026) as Ivy (voice) · The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Jen · Palmer (2021) as Shelly
Career snapshot
Ranked #433 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
36
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.6
Swapped
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Swapped
Most frequent director
Oliver Parker
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Oliver Parker
Most common genre
Drama
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Swapped, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, Roofman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Mr. Nobody, Year One, Cracks.
Most productive era
2010s
20 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 | 7.16 films | 6.412 films | 6.73 films |
| Action | — | 6.84 films | 6.92 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 6.38 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.84 films | 5.96 films | 7.12 films |
| Crime | — | 6.66 films | 7.11 film |
| Romance | 7.25 films | 6.64 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Polly Hart.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Swapped
8.6 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
2026Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The current state of the argument, as Susan.
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.
36 of 36 films
as Ivy (voice)
Directed by Nathan Greno
as Jen
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Anna age 15
Directed by Unknown
as Susan
Directed by Gore Verbinski
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
Ivy (voice)
Swapped (2026)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ivy (voice) gives Juno Temple a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Shelly
Palmer (2021)
Performance score8.1
Palmer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shelly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jen
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score7.8
The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anna age 15
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Performance score7.6
Mr. Nobody asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anna age 15 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 Ivy (voice)
Start here. Swapped is the clearest statement of what Juno Temple does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Juno 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.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Swapped — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Mr. Nobody but asks for a colder reading of it.
Palmer (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Palmer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Oliver Parker
Director
2 films together
Notably St Trinian's
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Atonement
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Boleyn Girl
Harold Ramis
Director
1 film together
Notably Year One
Abe Sylvia
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Girl
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably Kaboom
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Greenberg
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Ramaa Mosley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brass Teapot
William Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Killer Joe
Jonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together
Notably Small Apartments
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight Rises
Joey Soloway
Director
1 film together
Notably Afternoon Delight
Robert Stromberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Maleficent
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Thomas Vinterberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Far from the Madding Crowd
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Mass
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably The Most Hated Woman in America
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Wheel
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Michael Angarano
Director
1 film together
Notably Avenues
Fisher Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Palmer
Kelly Marcel
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom: The Last Dance
Derek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together
Notably Roofman
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Nathan Greno
Director
1 film together
Notably Swapped
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oliver Parker
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
St Trinian'sNathan Greno
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwappedChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dark Knight RisesFisher Stevens
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PalmerJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AtonementJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maleficent: Mistress of EvilGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't DieDerek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoofmanRobert Stromberg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaleficentThomas Vinterberg
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Far from the Madding CrowdKelly Marcel
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Venom: The Last DanceJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Other Boleyn GirlScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black MassWilliam Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killer JoeWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WheelFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Most Hated Woman in AmericaMichael Angarano
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AvenuesRamaa Mosley
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 Brass TeapotAbe Sylvia
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty GirlNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GreenbergJonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Small ApartmentsPaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersJoey Soloway
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Afternoon DelightGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KaboomHarold Ramis
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Year OneSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
2 wins
1 win · latest 2013
as Actor
1 win · latest 2013
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Jen
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
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. Juno Temple 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
20 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
21 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
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight Rises
as Jen
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cracks
as Di
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Swapped
as Ivy (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers
as Queen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Roofman
as Michelle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dark Knight Rises
as Jen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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