Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19964
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Susan Hogan represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 41 years in, and Susan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Susan Hogan appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Susan. White Fang 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 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 comedy, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Redford, David Nutter, Randal Kleiser and others, Susan Hogan 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.
White Fang (1991) as Belinda Casey · My One & Only (2019) as Ruth Fletcher · The Brood (1979) as Ruth Mayer
Career snapshot
Ranked #19964 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1979–2020
Career length
41 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
White Fang
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
White Fang
Most frequent director
Robert Redford
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert Redford
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
6.7
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
1970s
6.7 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. The Brood — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Brood.
Most productive era
1990s
2 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 | 1970s | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.81 film | 6.21 film | 5.51 film |
| Action | — | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | — | 5.51 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Horror | 6.71 film | 5.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1979The Brood
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ruth Mayer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1991White Fang
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
2020Elsewhere
The current state of the argument, as Mrs. Black.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Belinda Casey
Directed by Randal Kleiser
as Ruth Fletcher
Directed by Unknown
as Ruth Mayer
Directed by David Cronenberg
as Florida Woman
Directed by Robert Redford
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
Belinda Casey
White Fang (1991)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Belinda Casey gives Susan Hogan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ruth Fletcher
My One & Only (2019)
Performance score6.6
My One & Only asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruth Fletcher is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ruth Mayer
The Brood (1979)
Performance score6.6
The Brood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ruth Mayer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Black
Elsewhere (2020)
Performance score6.5
Elsewhere asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Black 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 Belinda Casey
Start here. White Fang is the clearest statement of what Susan Hogan does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Susan 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.
The Brood (1979)
A deliberate change of key after White Fang — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Company You Keep (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Brood — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My One & Only (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Company You Keep — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Elsewhere (2020)
Same director as My One & Only, 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.
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brood
Randal Kleiser
Director
1 film together
Notably White Fang
David Nutter
Director
1 film together
Notably Disturbing Behavior
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Company You Keep
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Randal Kleiser
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White FangDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BroodRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Company You KeepDavid Nutter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disturbing BehaviorSix 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
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Company You Keep
as Florida Woman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
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. Susan Hogan 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
41 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
3 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
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Disturbing Behavior
as Mrs. Clark
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
White Fang
as Belinda Casey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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