Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3314
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Barry Keoghan 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.
Barry Keoghan appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Barry. The Batman is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 music, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Mendes, Matt Reeves, Bart Layton and others, Barry Keoghan 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 Batman (2022) as Unseen Arkham Prisoner · The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) as Dominic Kearney · Dunkirk (2017) as George
Career snapshot
Ranked #3314 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2016–2028
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
The Batman
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Batman
Most frequent director
Sam Mendes
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Sam Mendes
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.1
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Black '47, American Animals, Dunkirk — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Black '47, American Animals, Dunkirk.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.75 films | 3.814 films |
| Action | 6.72 films | 6.81 film |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 6.75 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.22 films |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 5.75 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Windows.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022The Batman
7.9 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
The current state of the argument, as Ringo Starr.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Dominic Kearney
Directed by Martin McDonagh
as George
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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
Unseen Arkham Prisoner
The Batman (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Unseen Arkham Prisoner gives Barry Keoghan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Duke Shelby
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
Performance score7.6
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Duke Shelby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bug
Bird (2024)
Performance score7.6
Bird asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bug is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dominic Kearney
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Performance score7.6
The Banshees of Inisherin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dominic Kearney 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 Unseen Arkham Prisoner
Start here. The Batman is the clearest statement of what Barry Keoghan does — accessible, 177 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Barry 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.
Dunkirk (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Batman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Dunkirk but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bird (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Banshees of Inisherin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Bird but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sam Mendes
Director
4 films together
Notably The Beatles: Ringo
Bart Layton
Director
2 films together
Notably Crime 101
Matt Reeves
Director
2 films together
Notably The Batman
Adam Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Trespass Against Us
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dunkirk
Nick Rowland
Director
1 film together
Notably Calm with Horses
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Green Knight
Chloé Zhao
Director
1 film together
Notably Eternals
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Banshees of Inisherin
Emerald Fennell
Director
1 film together
Notably Saltburn
Andrea Arnold
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird
Trey Edward Shults
Director
1 film together
Notably Hurry Up Tomorrow
Tom Harper
Director
1 film together
Notably Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Mendes
Director
4 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Beatles: RingoBart Layton
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Crime 101Matt Reeves
Director
2 films together · 4.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The BatmanMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Banshees of InisherinChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DunkirkTom Harper
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal ManAndrea Arnold
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BirdEmerald Fennell
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaltburnChloé Zhao
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EternalsDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Green KnightNick Rowland
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Calm with HorsesAdam Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trespass Against UsTrey Edward Shults
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hurry Up TomorrowSix 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
The Banshees of Inisherin
as Dominic Kearney
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 Green Knight
as Scavenger
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
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. Barry Keoghan 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.
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
19 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 Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hurry Up Tomorrow
as Lee
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dunkirk
as George
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Eternals
as Druig
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Calm with Horses
as Dympna
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Batman
as Unseen Arkham Prisoner
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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