Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#861
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
David Corenswet 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.
David Corenswet appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without David. Supergirl is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Gunn, Craig Gillespie, Jonathan Levine and others, David Corenswet 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.
Supergirl (2026) as Superman · Superman (2025) as Superman · Supergirl (2026) as Superman
Career snapshot
Ranked #861 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2018–2027
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Supergirl
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Superman
Most frequent director
James Gunn
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Action
5 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
6.8
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
2020s
5.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Man of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.3
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.2
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. Affairs of State.
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 | 4.91 film | 4.74 films |
| Action | — | 5.95 films |
| Thriller | 4.91 film | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.12 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | 8.11 film |
| Romance | 4.91 film | 6.23 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Affairs of State
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Michael Lawson.
Career peak
2025Superman
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2026Supergirl
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027Man of Tomorrow
The current state of the argument, as Superman.
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 Superman
Directed by James Gunn
as Superman
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Jake
Directed by Wanuri Kahiu
as Max Enders
Directed by Unknown
as Superman
Directed by Craig Gillespie
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 16 of 16 titles · 17 total credits · active 2018–2027
Man of Tomorrow
2027 · Superman
Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story
2026 · John Tuggle
Supergirl
2026 · Superman
Superman
2025 · Superman
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · TV · Self
Twisters
2024 · Scott
The Greatest Hits
2024 · Max Enders
Lady in the Lake
2024 · TV · Allan Durst
DC Studios Showcase: The Official Podcast
2024 · TV · Self
Look Both Ways
2022 · Jake
We Own This City
2022 · TV · David McDougall
The Sunlit Night
2020 · Scott Glenn
Hollywood
2020 · TV · Jack Castello · Executive Producer
The Politician
2019 · TV · River Barkley
Affairs of State
2018 · Michael Lawson
Instinct
2018 · TV · Spencer Baymoore
The defining work
#1
Superman
Superman (2025)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Superman gives David Corenswet a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Superman
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score7.8
Supergirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Superman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jake
Look Both Ways (2022)
Performance score7.2
Look Both Ways asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jake is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Max Enders
The Greatest Hits (2024)
Performance score7.0
The Greatest Hits asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Max Enders 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 Superman
Start here. Superman is the clearest statement of what David Corenswet does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet David 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.
Look Both Ways (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Superman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Greatest Hits (2024)
Keeps the romance register of Look Both Ways but asks for a colder reading of it.
Supergirl (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Greatest Hits — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Supergirl (2026)
Same director as Supergirl, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together
Notably Supergirl
James Gunn
Director
2 films together
Notably Superman
David Wnendt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sunlit Night
Wanuri Kahiu
Director
1 film together
Notably Look Both Ways
Lee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together
Notably Twisters
Jonathan Levine
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story
David Krumholtz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Milly Alcock
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Eve Ridley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Jason Momoa
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Emily Beecham
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Kadiff Kirwan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Thalissa Teixeira
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Ferdinand Kingsley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Emily Piggford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Diarmaid Murtagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Clara Rosager
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SupergirlJames Gunn
Director
2 films together · 3.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SupermanLee 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
TwistersWanuri Kahiu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Look Both WaysDavid Wnendt
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sunlit NightJonathan Levine
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle StorySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
David Corenswet
Where this journey starts
Director
Craig Gillespie
2 collaborations, averaging 7.5
Film
Supergirl
Their highest-rated film together (2026)
Performer
David Krumholtz
Shares the frame in Supergirl
Film
Oppenheimer
Where David goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Matt Damon
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Supergirl
as Superman
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 Greatest Hits
as Max Enders
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Supergirl
as Superman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Supergirl
as Superman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Superman
as Superman
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. David Corenswet has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.2 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #662 of 681 | #487 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.1 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama |
| Directors | Craig Gillespie | Craig Gillespie, Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Physical performance, Action, Screen presence | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Superman — Supergirl | Isidor Rabi — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Supergirl | Oppenheimer |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Supergirl
Shared directors
craig-gillespie
Shared collections
Action Movies, Adventure Movies, Sci-Fi Movies
Collaborators in common
Craig Gillespie · Milly Alcock · Eve Ridley · Matthias Schoenaerts · Jason Momoa · Emily Beecham · Kadiff Kirwan · Thalissa Teixeira
David Krumholtz edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in action, 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
Supergirl
as Superman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Supergirl
as Superman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Greatest Hits
as Max Enders
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Supergirl
as Superman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Supergirl
as Superman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supergirl
as Superman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Look Both Ways
as Jake
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supergirl
as Superman
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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