Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3106
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dane DeHaan 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.
Dane DeHaan appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dane. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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 crime, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rebecca Thomas, Julius Onah, Christopher Nolan and others, Dane DeHaan 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Kenneth Nichols · Oppenheimer (2023) as Kenneth Nichols · Wardriver (2026) as Cole
Career snapshot
Ranked #3106 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kid, A Cure for Wellness, Tulip Fever — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 13 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
7 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Wardriver, Samo Lives, Oppenheimer.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.48 films | 6.04 films |
| Action | 6.53 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.62 films | 8.22 films |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 6.71 film |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 7.31 film |
| Romance | 6.24 films | — |
| Horror | 6.02 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Lincoln
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Second White Soldier.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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
2026Samo Lives
The current state of the argument.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Kenneth Nichols
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Cole
Directed by Rebecca Thomas
as Kenneth Nichols
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Valerian
Directed by Luc Besson
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 23 of 23 titles · 23 total credits · active 2008–2027
Neuromancer
2027 · TV · Peter Riviera
Wardriver
2026 · Cole
Samo Lives
2026 · Actor
American Primeval
2025 · TV · Jacob Pratt
Oppenheimer
2023 · Kenneth Nichols
Dumb Money
2023 · Brad
The Staircase
2022 · TV · Clayton Peterson
Lisey's Story
2021 · TV · Jim Dooley
ZeroZeroZero
2020 · TV · Chris Lynwood
The Kid
2019 · Billy 'The Kid' Bonney
A Cure for Wellness
2017 · Lockhart
Tulip Fever
2017 · Jan Van Loos
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Valerian
Ballerina
2016 · Victor (voice)
Life
2015 · James Dean
Knight of Cups
2015 · Paul
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014 · Green Goblin / Harry Osborn
Life After Beth
2014 · Zach Orfman
Devil's Knot
2013 · Chris Morgan
The Place Beyond the Pines
2013 · Jason Kancam
Kill Your Darlings
2013 · Lucien Carr
Lincoln
2012 · Second White Soldier
In Treatment
2008 · TV · Jesse D'Amato
The defining work
#1
Kenneth Nichols
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kenneth Nichols gives Dane DeHaan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cole
Wardriver (2026)
Performance score7.9
Wardriver asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cole is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kenneth Nichols
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kenneth Nichols is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Victor (voice)
Ballerina (2016)
Performance score7.6
Ballerina asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victor (voice) 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 Kenneth Nichols
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Dane DeHaan does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dane 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.
Ballerina (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Keeps the adventure register of Ballerina but asks for a colder reading of it.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wardriver (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Lincoln
John Krokidas
Director
1 film together
Notably Kill Your Darlings
Derek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together
Notably The Place Beyond the Pines
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Devil's Knot
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight of Cups
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Tulip Fever
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Cure for Wellness
Vincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb Money
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Samo Lives
Rebecca Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Wardriver
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rami Malek
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerRebecca Thomas
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WardriverDerek Cianfrance
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 Place Beyond the PinesJohn Krokidas
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill Your DarlingsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LincolnMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Amazing Spider-Man 2Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb MoneyLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetsJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tulip FeverGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Cure for WellnessAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Devil's KnotVincent D'Onofrio
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KidTerrence 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 CupsJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Samo LivesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2024
Oppenheimer
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lincoln
as Second White Soldier
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
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. Dane DeHaan has known it for a long time.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #252 of 681 | #487 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Craig Gillespie, Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2023–2023 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Kenneth Nichols — Oppenheimer | Isidor Rabi — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Oppenheimer | Oppenheimer |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Oppenheimer
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy · David Dastmalchian · Florence Pugh · Robert Downey Jr. · Emily Blunt
Dane DeHaan takes it on our scale, largely on the strength of the catalogue's rating of the films Dane chooses.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
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Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
12 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
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Cure for Wellness
as Lockhart
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Kid
as Billy 'The Kid' Bonney
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dumb Money
as Brad
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Kenneth Nichols
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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