Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3377
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daniel Bacon 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.
Daniel Bacon appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Another Sweet Christmas is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Robison, Paula Elle, Osgood Perkins and others, Daniel Bacon 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.
Another Sweet Christmas (2025) as Evan Roberts · Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021) as Mel Goff · The Age of Adaline (2015) as Boat Tunnel Guide
Career snapshot
Ranked #3377 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Another Sweet Christmas
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Another Sweet Christmas
Most frequent director
Michael Robison
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Michael Robison
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.6
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Love and Sunshine, Brain on Fire, Monster Trucks — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 8 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
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Case 39, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Eight Below.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 6.63 films | 7.24 films | 7.05 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.02 films | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.54 films | 7.44 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.12 films |
| Romance | — | 7.32 films | 7.27 films |
| Horror | 6.31 film | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Miracle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Reporter.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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 Brad.
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 Evan Roberts
Directed by Paula Elle
as Mel Goff
Directed by Fred Gerber
as Boat Tunnel Guide
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
as Ken
Directed by Michael Robison
as Denver Collins
Directed by Ellie Kanner
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
Evan Roberts
Another Sweet Christmas (2025)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Evan Roberts gives Daniel Bacon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mel Goff
Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021)
Performance score7.5
Mystery 101: Killer Timing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mel Goff is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boat Tunnel Guide
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Performance score7.3
The Age of Adaline asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boat Tunnel Guide is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ken
Two for Tee (2026)
Performance score7.2
Two for Tee asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ken 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 Evan Roberts
Start here. Another Sweet Christmas is the clearest statement of what Daniel Bacon does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daniel 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 Age of Adaline (2015)
Keeps the romance register of Another Sweet Christmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love and Sunshine (2019)
Keeps the romance register of The Age of Adaline but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mystery 101: Killer Timing (2021)
Keeps the tv movie register of Love and Sunshine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Two for Tee (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Mystery 101: Killer Timing but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably Miracle
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Four
Frank Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Eight Below
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Stood Still
Christian Alvart
Director
1 film together
Notably Case 39
Michael Lembeck
Director
1 film together
Notably Tooth Fairy
Jonathan Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably 50/50
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Age of Adaline
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The BFG
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Trucks
Ellie Kanner
Director
1 film together
Notably Love and Sunshine
Aubrey Arnason
Director
1 film together
Notably A Love to Remember
David Winning
Director
1 film together
Notably You, Me and the Christmas Trees
Fred Gerber
Director
1 film together
Notably Mystery 101: Killer Timing
Peter Benson
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Sky River
Osgood Perkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Longlegs
Paula Elle
Director
1 film together
Notably Another Sweet Christmas
Michael Robison
Director
1 film together
Notably Two for Tee
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paula Elle
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Another Sweet ChristmasFred Gerber
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mystery 101: Killer TimingLee Toland Krieger
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 Age of AdalineMichael Robison
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Two for TeeEllie Kanner
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love and SunshineJonathan Levine
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
50/50Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MiracleFrank Marshall
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eight BelowPeter Benson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Sky RiverDavid Winning
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You, Me and the Christmas TreesAubrey Arnason
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Love to RememberOsgood Perkins
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LonglegsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BFGChristian Alvart
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Case 39Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster TrucksTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic FourScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Stood StillMichael Lembeck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tooth FairySix 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
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
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 Age of Adaline
as Boat Tunnel Guide
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Miracle
as Reporter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
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. Daniel Bacon 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
22 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
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
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Two for Tee
as Ken
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
as Mel Goff
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Another Sweet Christmas
as Evan Roberts
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Monster Trucks
as Technician
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You, Me and the Christmas Trees
as Mayor Maguire
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fantastic Four
as Bridge Reporter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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