Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5503
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Linda Emond 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.
Linda Emond appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Linda. The Unforgivable is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 drama, crime, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lila Neugebauer, Ang Lee, Terrence Malick and others, Linda Emond 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.
The Unforgivable (2021) as Rachel Malcolm · North Country (2005) as Leslie Conlin · The Professor (2019) as Barbara
Career snapshot
Ranked #5503 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2000–2022
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Unforgivable
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Unforgivable
Most frequent director
Lila Neugebauer
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lila Neugebauer
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.4
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Causeway, The Unforgivable — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Julie & Julia, Stop-Loss, North Country.
Most productive era
2000s
6 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 | 6.55 films | 6.25 films | 7.02 films |
| Action | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.12 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.43 films | — |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Romance | 6.71 film | 5.51 film | — |
| Horror | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Pollock
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Martha Holmes.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The Unforgivable
7.4 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
2022Causeway
The current state of the argument, as Gloria.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Rachel Malcolm
Directed by Unknown
as Leslie Conlin
Directed by Niki Caro
as Simone Beck
Directed by Nora Ephron
as Barbara
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
Rachel Malcolm
The Unforgivable (2021)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rachel Malcolm gives Linda Emond a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Leslie Conlin
North Country (2005)
Performance score7.2
North Country asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leslie Conlin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gloria
Causeway (2022)
Performance score7.0
Causeway asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gloria is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Simone Beck
Julie & Julia (2009)
Performance score6.9
Julie & Julia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simone Beck 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 Rachel Malcolm
Start here. The Unforgivable is the clearest statement of what Linda Emond does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Linda 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.
North Country (2005)
Keeps the drama register of The Unforgivable but asks for a colder reading of it.
Julie & Julia (2009)
Keeps the drama register of North Country but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Professor (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Julie & Julia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Causeway (2022)
Keeps the drama register of The Professor but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ed Harris
Director
1 film together
Notably Pollock
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably City by the Sea
Walter Salles
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Water
Niki Caro
Director
1 film together
Notably North Country
Kimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together
Notably Stop-Loss
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Julie & Julia
Spike Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Oldboy
Gaby Dellal
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 Generations
Jason Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Family Fang
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Song to Song
Ang Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Gemini Man
Lila Neugebauer
Director
1 film together
Notably Causeway
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Niki Caro
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
North CountryNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Julie & JuliaEd Harris
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PollockLila Neugebauer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CausewayGaby Dellal
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 GenerationsAng Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gemini ManKimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stop-LossJason Bateman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Family FangSpike Lee
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OldboyMichael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
City by the SeaWalter Salles
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WaterTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Song to SongSix 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
North Country
as Leslie Conlin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Julie & Julia
as Simone Beck
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
North Country
as Leslie Conlin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pollock
as Martha Holmes
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Unforgivable
as Rachel Malcolm
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. Linda Emond 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
22 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
12 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
The Unforgivable
as Rachel Malcolm
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Unforgivable
as Rachel Malcolm
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Song to Song
as BV's Mother Judy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Oldboy
as Edwina Burke
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gemini Man
as Janet Lassiter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Gemini Man
as Janet Lassiter
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Julie & Julia
as Simone Beck
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Family Fang
as Miss Delano
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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