Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6357
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daniel Cudmore 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 Cudmore appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 mystery, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sean McNamara, Andy Fickman, Bryan Singer and others, Daniel Cudmore 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Colossus · X2 (2003) as Piotr Rasputin / Colossus · Playing with Fire (2019) as Burly Smoke Jumper #1
Career snapshot
Ranked #6357 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2003–2023
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Most frequent director
Bryan Singer
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Bryan Singer
Most common genre
Adventure
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Playing with Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
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. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, X-Men: The Last Stand, X2.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.21 film | 6.52 films | — |
| Action | 6.82 films | 7.02 films | 5.71 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.72 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 6.53 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003X2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Piotr Rasputin / Colossus.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.8 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
2023Vindicta
The current state of the argument, as David.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Colossus
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Piotr Rasputin / Colossus
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Lincoln Oodie
Directed by Unknown
as Burly Smoke Jumper #1
Directed by Andy Fickman
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
Colossus
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Colossus gives Daniel Cudmore a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Piotr Rasputin / Colossus
X2 (2003)
Performance score6.9
X2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Piotr Rasputin / Colossus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lincoln Oodie
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Performance score6.7
The Baytown Outlaws asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lincoln Oodie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Burly Smoke Jumper #1
Playing with Fire (2019)
Performance score6.6
Playing with Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Burly Smoke Jumper #1 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 Colossus
Start here. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest statement of what Daniel Cudmore does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.8 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.
X2 (2003)
Same director as X-Men: Days of Future Past, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Keeps the action register of X2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Baytown Outlaws — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Playing with Fire (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bill Condon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Last Stand
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: New Moon
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Playing with Fire
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Vindicta
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastBill Condon
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Playing with FireBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Last StandDavid Slade
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: EclipseChris Weitz
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 Twilight Saga: New MoonSean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VindictaSix 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
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 Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Felix
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
as Felix
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
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 Cudmore 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
as Felix
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vindicta
as David
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Colossus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Corrective Measures
as Diamond Jim
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
as Felix
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Vindicta
as David
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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