Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9014
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Fleetwood 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 Fleetwood appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 tv movie, drama, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Philip Martin, Tom Stubberfield, Brad Anderson and others, Kate Fleetwood 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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as First Order Officer · Les Misérables (2012) as Factory Woman 1 · Belsen: Our Story (2020) as Self - Narrator
Career snapshot
Ranked #9014 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2004–2024
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Les Misérables
Most frequent director
Philip Martin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Philip Martin
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Beirut, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Les Misérables — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Vanity Fair.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 6.32 films | 6.82 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | — | 6.92 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film | 5.21 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Vanity Fair
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miss Pinkerton's Crone.
Highest rated performance
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Scoop
The current state of the argument, as Annette Witheridge.
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.
8 of 8 films
as First Order Officer
Directed by J.J. Abrams
as Factory Woman 1
Directed by Tom Hooper
as Woman with Baby
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
as Annette Witheridge
Directed by Philip Martin
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
Self - Narrator
Belsen: Our Story (2020)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self - Narrator gives Kate Fleetwood a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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First Order Officer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Performance score7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. First Order Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Factory Woman 1
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Factory Woman 1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Woman with Baby
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Performance score6.6
Elizabeth: The Golden Age asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Woman with Baby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self - Narrator
Start here. Belsen: Our Story is the clearest statement of what Kate Fleetwood does — accessible, 60 minutes, and rated 7.0 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.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Belsen: Our Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Les Misérables (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Elizabeth: The Golden Age but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Les Misérables — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Scoop (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars: The Force Awakens — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mira Nair
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanity Fair
Shekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together
Notably Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Brad Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Beirut
Tom Stubberfield
Director
1 film together
Notably Belsen: Our Story
Philip Martin
Director
1 film together
Notably Scoop
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Force AwakensTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesTom Stubberfield
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Belsen: Our StoryShekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elizabeth: The Golden AgePhilip Martin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScoopBrad Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeirutMira 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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Les Misérables
as Factory Woman 1
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
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 Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Belsen: Our Story
as Self - Narrator
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 Fleetwood 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
5 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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Les Misérables
as Factory Woman 1
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Beirut
as Alice Riley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Les Misérables
as Factory Woman 1
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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