Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3838
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Teresa Palmer 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.
Teresa Palmer appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Teresa. Hacksaw Ridge is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Derrick Borte, David Leitch, Rachel Griffiths and others, Teresa Palmer 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.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) as Dorothy Schuttle · Ride Like a Girl (2019) as Michelle Payne · The Choice (2016) as Gabby Holland
Career snapshot
Ranked #3838 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Hacksaw Ridge
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Hacksaw Ridge
Most frequent director
Derrick Borte
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Derrick Borte
Most common genre
Romance
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Ride Like a Girl, Message from the King, Hacksaw Ridge — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Bedtime Stories, December Boys, The Grudge 2.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 6.01 film | 6.95 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | — | 6.14 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | 5.61 film | 6.13 films | 6.51 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.01 film | 7.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | 6.12 films | 6.33 films | 6.72 films |
| Horror | 5.61 film | 6.41 film | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006The Grudge 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vanessa Cassidy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Hacksaw Ridge
8.4 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
2026The Get Out
The current state of the argument, as Sunny.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Dorothy Schuttle
Directed by Mel Gibson
as Michelle Payne
Directed by Rachel Griffiths
as Gabby Holland
Directed by Ross Katz
as Iggy Starr
Directed by David Leitch
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
Dorothy Schuttle
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dorothy Schuttle gives Teresa Palmer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Michelle Payne
Ride Like a Girl (2019)
Performance score7.9
Ride Like a Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michelle Payne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gabby Holland
The Choice (2016)
Performance score7.6
The Choice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gabby Holland is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Iggy Starr
The Fall Guy (2024)
Performance score7.1
The Fall Guy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Iggy Starr 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 Dorothy Schuttle
Start here. Hacksaw Ridge is the clearest statement of what Teresa Palmer does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Teresa 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 Choice (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Hacksaw Ridge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lights Out (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Choice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ride Like a Girl (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Lights Out — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Fall Guy (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Ride Like a Girl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Takashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Grudge 2
Rod Hardy
Director
1 film together
Notably December Boys
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably Bedtime Stories
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sorcerer's Apprentice
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably I Am Number Four
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Take Me Home Tonight
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight of Cups
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Choice
John Hillcoat
Director
1 film together
Notably Triple 9
Mel Gibson
Director
1 film together
Notably Hacksaw Ridge
Rachel Griffiths
Director
1 film together
Notably Ride Like a Girl
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fall Guy
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Get Out
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mel Gibson
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hacksaw RidgeRachel Griffiths
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ride Like a GirlRoss Katz
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ChoiceDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fall GuyDerrick Borte
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 Get OutD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Am Number FourJon Turteltaub
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 Sorcerer's ApprenticeAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bedtime StoriesJohn Hillcoat
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Triple 9Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Take Me Home TonightRod Hardy
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
December BoysTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight of CupsTakashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Grudge 2Six 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
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
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 Choice
as Gabby Holland
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
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. Teresa Palmer 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
20 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.
Romance Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in romance, 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
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Addition
as Grace Lisa Vandenburg
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Twin
as Rachel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Triple 9
as Michelle Allen
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bedtime Stories
as Violet Nottingham
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hacksaw Ridge
as Dorothy Schuttle
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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