Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6688
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Garrick Hagon represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 48 years in, and Garrick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Garrick Hagon appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Garrick. Star Wars is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 drama, thriller, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Edward Berger, Dean Parisot, Rodrigo Cortés and others, Garrick Hagon 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.
Star Wars (1977) as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter) · La Vie en Rose (2007) as American doctor · Batman (1989) as Dad
Career snapshot
Ranked #6688 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
1976–2024
Career length
48 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Star Wars
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Star Wars
Most frequent director
Tim Burton
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tim Burton
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
2h 0m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.1
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
1970s
7.3 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. A Bridge Too Far, Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. A Bridge Too Far, Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 7.01 film | 7.21 film | 6.74 films | — | 7.21 film |
| Action | 7.43 films | 7.31 film | 7.21 film | 6.62 films | 6.32 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | — | 7.21 film | 6.73 films | 6.33 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | — | — | — | 6.82 films | 6.51 film | — |
| Crime | — | 7.31 film | — | 6.62 films | 6.51 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | — | 5.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1976The Message
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ammar.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1977Star Wars
8.5 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
2024Conclave
The current state of the argument, as Krasinski.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
Directed by George Lucas
as American doctor
Directed by Olivier Dahan
as Dad
Directed by Tim Burton
as Krasinski
Directed by Edward Berger
as Denver Reporter
Directed by Tim Burton
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
Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
Star Wars (1977)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Red Three (Biggs Darklighter) gives Garrick Hagon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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American doctor
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Performance score7.2
La Vie en Rose asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. American doctor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dad
Batman (1989)
Performance score7.2
Batman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dad is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Krasinski
Conclave (2024)
Performance score7.1
Conclave asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Krasinski 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 Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
Start here. Star Wars is the clearest statement of what Garrick Hagon does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Garrick 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.
Batman (1989)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Same director as Batman, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
La Vie en Rose (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Conclave (2024)
Keeps the drama register of La Vie en Rose but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Attenborough
Director
2 films together
Notably Cry Freedom
Tim Burton
Director
2 films together
Notably Batman
Moustapha Akkad
Director
1 film together
Notably The Message
Lewis Gilbert
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spy Who Loved Me
George Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars
Simon Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Balto
Brian De Palma
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy Game
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jacket
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably La Vie en Rose
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Me and Orson Welles
Isaac Florentine
Director
1 film together
Notably Ninja
Philipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together
Notably Erased
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Lights
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably RED 2
Edward Berger
Director
1 film together
Notably Conclave
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Burton
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BatmanRichard Attenborough
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Cry FreedomGeorge Lucas
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star WarsOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La Vie en RoseEdward Berger
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ConclaveBrian De Palma
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: ImpossibleSimon Wells
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaltoJohn Maybury
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 JacketTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spy GameMoustapha Akkad
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 MessageLewis Gilbert
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spy Who Loved MeDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RED 2Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me and Orson WellesRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red LightsIsaac Florentine
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NinjaPhilipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ErasedSix 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
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
La Vie en Rose
as American doctor
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
La Vie en Rose
as American doctor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
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. Garrick Hagon 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
48 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
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
La Vie en Rose
as American doctor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Jacket
as Defense Lawyer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible
as CNN Reporter
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Me and Orson Welles
as Dr. Mewling
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars
as Red Three (Biggs Darklighter)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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