Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16232
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Susie Porter represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Susie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Susie Porter appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Susie. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 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, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bruce Beresford, Matt Nable, Anthony Hayes and others, Susie Porter 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: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7 · Ladies in Black (2018) as Mrs. Miles · Two Hands (1999) as Deirdre
Career snapshot
Ranked #16232 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1999–2026
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
Ladies in Black
Most frequent director
Bruce Beresford
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bruce Beresford
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
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
6.3
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Two Hands.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.62 films | 3.83 films |
| Action | — | 6.81 film | — | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — | 6.41 film | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | — | 6.71 film | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Two Hands
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Deirdre.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
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 Worm
The current state of the argument, as Maree.
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 The Stranger
Directed by Anthony Hayes
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
Directed by George Lucas
as Mrs. Miles
Directed by Bruce Beresford
as Kay
Directed by Yolanda Ramke
as Deirdre
Directed by Gregor Jordan
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The defining work
#1
The Stranger
Gold (2022)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Stranger gives Susie Porter a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Performance score6.7
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hermione Bagwa / WA-7 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mrs. Miles
Ladies in Black (2018)
Performance score6.6
Ladies in Black asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mrs. Miles is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kay
Cargo (2017)
Performance score6.6
Cargo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kay 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 The Stranger
Start here. Gold is the clearest statement of what Susie Porter does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 6.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Susie 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.
Two Hands (1999)
Keeps the thriller register of Gold but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
A deliberate change of key after Two Hands — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Cargo (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ladies in Black (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Cargo but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bruce Beresford
Director
2 films together
Notably Ladies in Black
Gregor Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Two Hands
George Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Yolanda Ramke
Director
1 film together
Notably Cargo
Wade Goring
Director
1 film together
Notably Wentworth: Unlocked
Anthony Hayes
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
Matt Nable
Director
1 film together
Notably Transfusion
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bruce Beresford
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ladies in BlackGeorge Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the ClonesGregor Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Two HandsYolanda Ramke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CargoAnthony Hayes
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldMatt Nable
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TransfusionWade Goring
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wentworth: UnlockedSix 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: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Travellers
as Nikki
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: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gold
as The Stranger
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. Susie Porter 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
27 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: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Cargo
as Kay
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Travellers
as Nikki
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Two Hands
as Deirdre
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Gold
as The Stranger
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Ladies in Black
as Mrs. Miles
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Hermione Bagwa / WA-7
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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