Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1986
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Diarmaid Murtagh 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.
Diarmaid Murtagh appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Diarmaid. 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, adventure, sci-fi. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Craig Gillespie, Nick Hamm, Ruben Fleischer and others, Diarmaid Murtagh 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 Drom Baxton · Supergirl (2026) as Drom Baxton · Uncharted (2022) as Police Officer
Career snapshot
Ranked #1986 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Supergirl
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Supergirl
Most frequent director
Craig Gillespie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Craig Gillespie
Most common genre
Action
5 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
6.8
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
5.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Protector, Robert the Bruce, The Monuments Men — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.8
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. The Protector, Robert the Bruce, The Monuments Men.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.82 films | 6.52 films |
| Action | 5.51 film | 7.14 films |
| Thriller | 5.51 film | — |
| Sci-Fi | — | 8.11 film |
| Crime | 5.51 film | — |
| Romance | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Captain Harpen.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Supergirl
8.1 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
2026Supergirl
The current state of the argument, as Drom Baxton.
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 Drom Baxton
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Drom Baxton
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Police Officer
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
as Jake Sharp
Directed by Tosca Musk
as Poulsen
Directed by Unknown
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 14 of 14 titles · 14 total credits · active 2011–2026
Supergirl
2026 · Drom Baxton
Stolen Moments
2025 · Actor
William Tell
2025 · Master Builder
Uncharted
2022 · Police Officer
Against the Ice
2022 · Poulsen
The Tourist
2022 · TV · Donal
The One
2021 · TV · Connor Martin
The Protector
2019 · Jake Sharp
Robert the Bruce
2019 · James Douglas
The Monuments Men
2014 · Captain Harpen
Good People
2014 · Marshall
Outlander
2014 · TV · William 'Buck' MacKenzie
Dominion
2014 · TV · Wes
Camelot
2011 · TV · Brastias
The defining work
#1
Drom Baxton
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Drom Baxton gives Diarmaid Murtagh a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Drom Baxton
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score6.9
Supergirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drom Baxton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Police Officer
Uncharted (2022)
Performance score6.8
Uncharted asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Police Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jake Sharp
The Protector (2019)
Performance score6.8
The Protector asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jake Sharp 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 Drom Baxton
Start here. Supergirl is the clearest statement of what Diarmaid Murtagh does — accessible, 124 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Diarmaid 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 Protector (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Supergirl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Uncharted (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The Protector — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Against the Ice (2022)
Keeps the adventure register of Uncharted but asks for a colder reading of it.
Supergirl (2026)
Keeps the adventure register of Against the Ice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together
Notably Supergirl
Henrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together
Notably Good People
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Monuments Men
Tosca Musk
Director
1 film together
Notably The Protector
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncharted
Nick Hamm
Director
1 film together
Notably William Tell
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
David Corenswet
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
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
SupergirlRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnchartedTosca Musk
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 ProtectorNick Hamm
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
William TellGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Monuments MenHenrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good PeopleSix 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
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Against the Ice
as Poulsen
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 Drom Baxton
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
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. Diarmaid Murtagh 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 | #664 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 | Action, Physical performance, Screen presence | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Drom Baxton — 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 · David Corenswet · Kadiff Kirwan
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 Drom Baxton
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Against the Ice
as Poulsen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Uncharted
as Police Officer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Against the Ice
as Poulsen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supergirl
as Drom Baxton
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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