Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13276
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lennon Parham works on quiet performance 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.
Lennon Parham appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lennon. Bombshell is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, mystery, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jessica McKenna, Josh Greenbaum, Mimi Cave and others, Lennon Parham 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.
Bombshell (2019) as Beth's Employee · Swiped (2025) as Tour Guide · The Dink (2026) as Kris
Career snapshot
Ranked #13276 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Bombshell
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Bombshell
Most frequent director
Jessica McKenna
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jessica McKenna
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
2000s
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Confessions of a Shopaholic — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | — | 6.62 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 6.13 films | 3.32 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | 6.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Confessions of a Shopaholic
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Joyce.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Bombshell
6.8 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
2026The Dink
The current state of the argument, as Kris.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Tour Guide
Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg
as Principal Cavalluzzi
Directed by Jessica McKenna
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
Beth's Employee
Bombshell (2019)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Beth's Employee gives Lennon Parham a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tour Guide
Swiped (2025)
Performance score6.6
Swiped asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tour Guide is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Principal Cavalluzzi
Mock Trial (2026)
Performance score6.5
Mock Trial asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Principal Cavalluzzi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kris
The Dink (2026)
Performance score6.5
The Dink asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kris 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 Beth's Employee
Start here. Bombshell is the clearest statement of what Lennon Parham does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lennon 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.
Swiped (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Bombshell but asks for a colder reading of it.
Holland (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Swiped — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mock Trial (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Holland — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Dink (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Mock Trial but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
P.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Confessions of a Shopaholic
Chris Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Other People
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Swiped
Mimi Cave
Director
1 film together
Notably Holland
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dink
Jessica McKenna
Director
1 film together
Notably Mock Trial
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellRachel Lee Goldenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwipedJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DinkP.J. Hogan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Confessions of a ShopaholicChris Kelly
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Other PeopleMimi Cave
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HollandJessica McKenna
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mock TrialSix 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
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Swiped
as Tour Guide
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
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. Lennon Parham 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Holland
as Gwen
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swiped
as Tour Guide
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Holland
as Gwen
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bombshell
as Beth's Employee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Swiped
as Tour Guide
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dink
as Kris
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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