Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3453
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dominic Cooper represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Dominic is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dominic Cooper appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dominic. Miss You Already is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Simon West, Duncan Jones, Catherine Hardwicke and others, Dominic Cooper 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.
Miss You Already (2015) as Kit · Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013) as Howard Stark · Breakfast on Pluto (2005) as Squaddie at Disco
Career snapshot
Ranked #3453 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Miss You Already
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Miss You Already
Most frequent director
Simon West
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Simon West
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. An Education, The Duchess, Mamma Mia! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. An Education, The Duchess, Mamma Mia!.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.94 films | 6.74 films | 0.01 film |
| Action | — | 6.46 films | 6.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 5.93 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.93 films | 7.32 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | — |
| Romance | 6.84 films | 6.92 films | 0.01 film |
| Horror | 6.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001From Hell
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Constable #3.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015Miss You Already
7.4 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
2026The Lightkeeper
The current state of the argument, as Seamus.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Kit
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
as Howard Stark
Directed by Louis D'Esposito
as Danny
Directed by Lone Scherfig
as Julius
Directed by Unknown
as Howard Stark
Directed by Joe Johnston
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
Kit
Miss You Already (2015)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kit gives Dominic Cooper a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Howard Stark
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)
Performance score7.6
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Howard Stark is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Danny
An Education (2009)
Performance score7.3
An Education asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Julius
The Princess (2022)
Performance score7.2
The Princess asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julius 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 Kit
Start here. Miss You Already is the clearest statement of what Dominic Cooper does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dominic 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.
An Education (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Miss You Already but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
A deliberate change of key after An Education — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)
Keeps the action register of Captain America: The First Avenger but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Princess (2022)
Keeps the action register of Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Albert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably From Hell
Neil Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Breakfast on Pluto
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Starter for 10
Saul Dibb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duchess
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably An Education
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: The First Avenger
Simon Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably My Week with Marilyn
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man Down
Louis D'Esposito
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss You Already
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Warcraft
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably Stratton
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss You AlreadyLouis D'Esposito
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel One-Shot: Agent CarterNeil Jordan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Breakfast on PlutoJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: The First AvengerLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An EducationSaul Dibb
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuchessSimon Curtis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Week with MarilynAlbert Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
From HellDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarcraftTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starter for 10Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man DownSimon West
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StrattonSix 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
Breakfast on Pluto
as Squaddie at Disco
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
An Education
as Danny
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Miss You Already
as Kit
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Breakfast on Pluto
as Squaddie at Disco
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Miss You Already
as Kit
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. Dominic Cooper 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
25 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
Miss You Already
as Kit
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
From Hell
as Constable #3
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Week with Marilyn
as Milton Greene
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
From Hell
as Constable #3
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
as Howard Stark
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
as Howard Stark
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Miss You Already
as Kit
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dead Man Down
as Darcy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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