Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4695
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daniel Ings 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 Ings appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Eddie the Eagle is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Shawn Levy, David Leitch, Susanna White and others, Daniel Ings 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.
Eddie the Eagle (2016) as Zach · Zog and the Flying Doctors (2021) as Gadabout (voice) · Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) as Guard
Career snapshot
Ranked #4695 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2011–2027
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Eddie the Eagle
Average Nutevio score
3.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Eddie the Eagle
Most frequent director
Shawn Levy
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Shawn Levy
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
0h 58m
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
6.2
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Eddie the Eagle, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Eddie the Eagle, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 7.21 film | 0.04 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | 2.03 films |
| Thriller | — | 3.12 films |
| Comedy | 7.21 film | 0.02 films |
| Crime | — | 6.21 film |
| Horror | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Guard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Eddie the Eagle
7.2 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
2027Jason Statham Stole My Bike
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.
11 of 11 films
as Zach
Directed by Dexter Fletcher
as Gadabout (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Guard
Directed by Rob Marshall
Directed by Shawn Levy
Directed by David Leitch
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The defining work
#1
Zach
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Zach gives Daniel Ings a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gadabout (voice)
Zog and the Flying Doctors (2021)
Performance score7.0
Zog and the Flying Doctors asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gadabout (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Guard
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Performance score6.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars: Starfighter (2027)
Performance score6.5
Star Wars: Starfighter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Zach
Start here. Eddie the Eagle is the clearest statement of what Daniel Ings does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.2 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.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Keeps the adventure register of Eddie the Eagle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zog and the Flying Doctors (2021)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Wars: Starfighter (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Zog and the Flying Doctors — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jason Statham Stole My Bike (2027)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars: Starfighter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddie the Eagle
Dawn Shadforth
Director
1 film together
Notably I Hate Suzie Too
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marvels
Susanna White
Director
1 film together
Notably Prima Facie
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Jason Statham Stole My Bike
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: Starfighter
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eddie the EagleRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MarvelsShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: StarfighterDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Susanna White
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Prima FacieDawn Shadforth
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Hate Suzie TooSix 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
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
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 Ings 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
5 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
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Adam Sutherland
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Zog and the Flying Doctors
as Gadabout (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Adam Sutherland
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Guard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Guard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Eddie the Eagle
as Zach
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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