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Karen Gillan (1987-) is a Scottish actress and filmmaker. She portrayed Amy Pond, in the BBC One series Doctor Who (2010–2013). She received international recognition for playing Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and her role of Martha/Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji: movies.. Her IMDb page shows over 60 acting credits since 2008. This page will rank Karen Gillan movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Karen Gillan Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame (2019) |  |
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| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | |
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| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | |
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| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) | |
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| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) |  |
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| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) | |
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| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) | |
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| 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | |
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| 2015 | The Big Short (2015) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 2019 | Spies In Disguise (2019) |  |
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| 2020 | The Call Of The Wild (2020) | |
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| 2022 | Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) Disney Plus |
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| 2013 | Oculus (2013) |  |
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| 2025 | The Life of Chuck (2025) | |
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| 2019 | Stuber (2019) | |
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| 2016 | In a Valley of Violence (2016) |  |
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| 2018 | The Party's Just Beginning (2018) |  |
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| 2022 | Dual (2022) | |
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| 2021 | Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Netflix |
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| 2018 | All Creatures Here Below (2018) |  |
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| 2017 | Alex & The List (2017) |  |
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| 2022 | The Bubble (2022) Netflix |
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Karen Gillan Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Karen Gillan movies by his co-stars
- Sort Karen Gillan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Karen Gillan movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Karen Gillan movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Karen Gillan movie received.
- Sort Karen Gillan movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Worldwide Box Office Numbers Were Not Available For All The Movies
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 2 | Avengers: Endgame (2019) | Chris Evans & Josh Brolin |
858.40 | 1,171.4 | 3,815.9 | 1 | 89 | 01 / 00 | 98.7 | |
| 1 | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana |
335.20 | 512.8 | 1,186.2 | 2 | 88 | 02 / 00 | 98.7 | |
| 3 | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Mark Ruffalo & Robert Downey Jr. |
678.80 | 926.3 | 2,792.7 | 2 | 87 | 01 / 00 | 98.5 | |
| 4 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) | Chris Pratt & Bradley Cooper |
358.80 | 391.1 | 914.8 | 4 | 84 | 01 / 00 | 98.2 | |
| 4 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | Chris Pratt & Kurt Russell |
389.80 | 543.2 | 1,203.4 | 5 | 80 | 01 / 00 | 97.4 | |
| 5 | Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) | Dwayne Johnson & Kevin Hart |
404.50 | 563.7 | 1,340.2 | 4 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 96.7 | |
| 6 | Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) | Dwayne Johnson & Kevin Hart |
316.80 | 432.4 | 1,085.8 | 10 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 95.1 | |
| 8 | Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | Chris Hemsworth & Christian Bale |
343.30 | 383.0 | 849.1 | 8 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 94.7 | |
| 7 | The Big Short (2015) AA Best Picture Nom |
Christian Bale & Brad Pitt |
70.30 | 104.2 | 197.9 | 41 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 92.8 | |
| 8 | Spies In Disguise (2019) | Will Smith & Tom Holland |
66.80 | 91.1 | 227.5 | 42 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 83.5 | |
| 9 | The Call Of The Wild (2020) | Harrison Ford | 62.30 | 84.9 | 146.3 | 6 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 80.5 | |
| 11 | Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) Disney Plus |
Chris Pratt | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 318 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 71.7 | |
| 13 | Oculus (2013) | Brenton Thwaites | 27.70 | 42.6 | 67.7 | 94 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 69.4 | |
| 14 | The Life of Chuck (2025) | Tom Hiddleston | 4.70 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 117 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 61.5 | |
| 14 | Stuber (2019) | Dave Bautista & Kumail Nanjiani |
22.40 | 30.5 | 43.5 | 93 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 51.8 | |
| 15 | In a Valley of Violence (2016) | John Travolta & Ethan Hawke |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 291 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 47.4 | |
| 16 | The Party's Just Beginning (2018) | Lee Pace | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 398 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 37.1 | |
| 18 | Dual (2022) | Aaron Paul | 0.20 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 147 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 32.3 | |
| 17 | Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Netflix |
Angela Bassett & Michelle Yeoh |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 337 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 22.8 | |
| 18 | All Creatures Here Below (2018) | Jennifer Morrison | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 338 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 19.0 | |
| 19 | Alex & The List (2017) | Patrick Fugit | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 323 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 5.2 | |
| 21 | The Bubble (2022) Netflix |
Karen Gillan & Directed by Judd Apatow |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 303 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.8 |
Best IMDb Trivia On Karen Gillan
1. Karen Sheila Gillan was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1987.
2. While studying at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England, Karen Gillan was scouted by a modelling agency.
3. Karen Gillan shaved her head completely bald to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Marvel Studios subsequently turned her shaved hair into a wig and presented it to her as a gift which she still keeps to this day.
4. Karen Gillan’s first feature film as a writer and director, titled The Party’s Just Beginning, was released in 2018.
5. Karen Gillan wants to play a female Bond antagonist in a future James Bond movie and that she wants to play the female incarnation of The Joker in a future Batman movie.
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Karen Gillan, I liked her as Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy / Avengers sagas, and she was fun as the Lara Croft-esque avatar in Jumanji, I haven’t seen the sequel yet.
I’ve seen 7 of the 15 films on the chart, favorites are Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, Avengers Infinity War & Endgame and Jumanji. I’ve also seen Oculus and The Big Short.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out our Karen Gillan page. Tally count: Taylor 10 (a newbie to the tally contest), me 8 and you 7. As for Nebula….I have grown to like her character….at first I was not too impressed…but she grew on me. Like you, I enjoyed her in Jumanji 2….and have not seen Jumanji 3. My kids loved the last one….yet…..had no interest in seeing this on. I have seen all 7 of your movies…with Stuber being my last one, and the only one you have not seen. Good stuff as always.
I like her a lot. I think she has a very bright future. She is the best part of Jumanji:The Next Level. I have seen 10 of her movies. About to watch number 11, as I just bought a digital copy of Stuber.
Hey Taylor…..wow….your 10 is the highest total so far…I will be closing the gap soon….as All Creatures Here Below is in my stack of movies to watch….and I of course will be seeing Jumanji 3 in the near future…..so I bet in about 4 months it will be 11 for you and 10 for me. As for Stuber…it was ok….don’t blink …or you might miss Gillan’s role…lol. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE:
You seem to know more about important modern young stars than I do; so I always welcome your new pages on them as they provide me with a learning curve for which I’m grateful. 8 movies is a very respectable number for you to have seen considering that she has made only about 15.
Obviously the franchises are paying off for her and she seems to have such a diversity of talents that she is unlikely to become type-cast like poor old Tobor!
Hey Bob. I think with the exception of Dan, I watch the most new movies of all the regular commenters. I try to eventually see every major release that gets released in theaters. It might take me a few years but I normally end up seeing about 95% of all the new releases.I just got a Netflix account from my oldest daughter for Christmas. This is allowing me to catch up on movies that were previously unavailable to me, so watch out… LOL. Thanks for the feedback.
I have seen just one of Karen’s films: the first Guardians of the Galaxy offering. She is though undoubtedly a multi-medium performer and alongside her feature career she has;
1/been in 20 television productions between 2006 and 2018.
2/appeared in 6 short films between 2014 and 2019
3/made a music video in 2014
4/participated in 3 video games [2010/2011]
5/acted in two stage productions in 2011 and 2013, the latter one being on Broadway and called Time to Act.
IN THE PIPELINE for KAREN: (1) 2 feature films and a short at post-production stage (2) currently filming is a TV series What If? for 2021 release in which she provides the voice of Nebula, her Guardians of the Galaxy character (3) and she will again be Nebula in Guardians of Galaxy 3 at pre-production stage and scheduled for a 2021 release.
The lovely and very busy ‘WORK MARE’! Karen has already generated a net worth of $2 million according to the Celebrity Net Worth site; and IMDB credits her with 7 of the relatively minor acting awards and 19 nominations. Undoubtedly therefore among young modern actresses she is an ideal candidate for a Cogerson new page, so “Voted Up!”
Hey Bob. Thanks for the thoughts and one of the better younger actress is working today. I have seen eight of her movies, including six of them in theaters. She seems to be gaining momentum as time is passing. Good information on the other parts of her career. If she keeps making sequels to her blockbusters, that net worth will keep on growing. Good stuff.