Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5968
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daryl McCormack 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.
Daryl McCormack appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daryl. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 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 comedy, adventure, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Octavio E. Rodriguez, Duncan Jones, Rian Johnson and others, Daryl McCormack 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.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) as Cy Draven · Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) as Leo Grande · Anniversary (2025) as Rob Thompson
Career snapshot
Ranked #5968 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2019–2027
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Most frequent director
Octavio E. Rodriguez
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Octavio E. Rodriguez
Most common genre
Thriller
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. A Good Woman Is Hard to Find — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. A Good Woman Is Hard to Find.
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 | — | 6.53 films |
| Action | — | 3.42 films |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.55 films |
| Comedy | — | 4.33 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 5.81 film |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
Where our catalogue meets this career, as PC Reeves.
Career peak
2022Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027On the Edge
The current state of the argument, as Donnie (voice).
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.
10 of 10 films
as Cy Draven
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Rob Thompson
Directed by Jan Komasa
as Jeb
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung
as Donnie (voice)
Directed by Octavio E. Rodriguez
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Loading credits…
The defining work
#1
Leo Grande
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Leo Grande gives Daryl McCormack a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Cy Draven
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
Performance score7.1
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cy Draven is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Rob Thompson
Anniversary (2025)
Performance score7.1
Anniversary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rob Thompson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Jeb
Twisters (2024)
Performance score6.7
Twisters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jeb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Leo Grande
Start here. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is the clearest statement of what Daryl McCormack does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daryl 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.
Twisters (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Good Luck to You, Leo Grande — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of Twisters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Anniversary (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery but asks for a colder reading of it.
On the Edge (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Anniversary — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Barnaby Thompson
Director
1 film together
Notably Pixie
Alice Troughton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lesson
Lee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together
Notably Twisters
Jan Komasa
Director
1 film together
Notably Anniversary
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Netflix Tudum 2025
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue Trooper
Octavio E. Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Edge
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out MysteryJan Komasa
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnniversaryLee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwistersBarnaby Thompson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PixieAlice Troughton
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 LessonBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Netflix Tudum 2025Octavio E. Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the EdgeDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue TrooperSix 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
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Leo Grande
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Leo Grande
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. Daryl McCormack 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Leo Grande
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Cy Draven
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Twisters
as Jeb
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rogue Trooper
as (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Leo Grande
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Anniversary
as Rob Thompson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
If you like this performer
Michael Caine
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Morgan Freeman
Built a career in the same territory: action and crime
Matt Damon
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Christian Bale
Built a career in the same territory: action and crime
David Krumholtz
Built a career in the same territory: action and adventure
Tom Hanks
Built a career in the same territory: animation and comedy
Have your say
Community
Which Daryl McCormack performance holds up best?
Our readers argue about this one. Make your case, or read the ranked debate already in progress.
Join the conversation
Reference
Continue exploring
Trending performers
Directors they work with
Collections to read next
