Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2577
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Dickie 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.
Kate Dickie appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. Everybody to Kenmure Street is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 documentary, science fiction, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alice Lowe, Terry McDonough, Christopher Hatton and others, Kate Dickie 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.
Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) as Nurse · Tell It to the Bees (2019) as Pam Stock · Now Is Good (2012) as Doctor
Career snapshot
Ranked #2577 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Most frequent director
Alice Lowe
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alice Lowe
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Balance, Not Symmetry, Tell It to the Bees, Get Duked! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 9 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
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Balance, Not Symmetry, Tell It to the Bees, Get Duked!.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.96 films | 6.03 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 5.93 films |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 5.54 films |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 5.31 film |
| Crime | 6.81 film | 5.61 film |
| Romance | 7.42 films | 5.31 film |
| Horror | 6.63 films | 4.04 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Prometheus
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ford.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Everybody to Kenmure Street
8.3 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
2026Werwulf
The current state of the argument.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Doctor
Directed by Unknown
as Halldóra the Pict
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
Nurse
Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nurse gives Kate Dickie a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Katherine
The Witch (2016)
Performance score7.4
The Witch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Katherine is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pam Stock
Tell It to the Bees (2019)
Performance score7.3
Tell It to the Bees asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pam Stock is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doctor
Now Is Good (2012)
Performance score7.2
Now Is Good asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doctor 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 Nurse
Start here. Everybody to Kenmure Street is the clearest statement of what Kate Dickie does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kate 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.
Now Is Good (2012)
Same director as Everybody to Kenmure Street, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Witch (2016)
Same director as Now Is Good, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Tell It to the Bees (2019)
Same director as The Witch, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Northman (2022)
Same director as Tell It to the Bees, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Prometheus
Jon S. Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably Filth
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Our Ladies
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Green Knight
Christopher Hatton
Director
1 film together
Notably Raven's Hollow
Terry McDonough
Director
1 film together
Notably Damaged
Alice Lowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Timestalker
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rian 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 JediJon S. Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FilthDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Green KnightRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PrometheusMichael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Our LadiesTerry McDonough
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DamagedChristopher Hatton
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Raven's HollowAlice Lowe
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TimestalkerSix 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
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Nurse
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tell It to the Bees
as Pam Stock
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Nurse
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 Hux's First Order Monitor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Nurse
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. Kate Dickie 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
9 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
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Nurse
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Witch
as Katherine
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tell It to the Bees
as Pam Stock
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Witch
as Katherine
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Nurse
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Northman
as Halldóra the Pict
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Filth
as Chrissie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Hux's First Order Monitor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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