Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#48629
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Kathryn Beaumont represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 72 years in, and Kathryn is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kathryn Beaumont appears in 3 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kathryn. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are emotional range, quiet performance, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, family, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Clyde Geronimi, Kathryn Beaumont 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.
Disney 100: Remember That (2023) as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice) · Peter Pan (1953) as Wendy Darling (voice) · Alice in Wonderland (1951) as Alice (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #48629 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
3
1951–2023
Career length
72 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Average Nutevio score
8.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Most frequent director
Clyde Geronimi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Clyde Geronimi
Most common genre
Family
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 3m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.8
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
7.9
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
10.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Disney 100: Remember That — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
10.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
10.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland.
Most productive era
1950s
2 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alice (voice).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice).
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.
3 of 3 films
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Alice (voice)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
as Wendy Darling (voice)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
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 - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Disney 100: Remember That (2023)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice) gives Kathryn Beaumont a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alice (voice)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Performance score7.9
Alice in Wonderland asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alice (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wendy Darling (voice)
Peter Pan (1953)
Performance score7.6
Peter Pan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wendy Darling (voice) 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 Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Start here. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest statement of what Kathryn Beaumont does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kathryn 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.
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Keeps the family register of Disney 100: Remember That but asks for a colder reading of it.
Peter Pan (1953)
Same director as Alice in Wonderland, 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.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Clyde Geronimi
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Peter PanSix 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
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (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
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (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
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (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. Kathryn Beaumont 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
72 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Family Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in family, 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
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Peter Pan
as Wendy Darling (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self - Wendy Darling(archive footage) (archive sound) (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Peter Pan
as Wendy Darling (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Peter Pan
as Wendy Darling (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Peter Pan
as Wendy Darling (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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