Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9098
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Patch Darragh 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.
Patch Darragh appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patch. Cabrini is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alejandro Monteverde, Ali Abbasi, Julian Farino and others, Patch Darragh 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.
Cabrini (2024) as Dr. Murphy · Sully (2016) as Patrick Harten · The Apprentice (2024) as Daniel Sullivan
Career snapshot
Ranked #9098 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2012–2024
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Cabrini
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Cabrini
Most frequent director
Alejandro Monteverde
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Alejandro Monteverde
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Cabrini, The Apprentice, The Union — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Brittany Runs a Marathon, Cam, The First Purge.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.73 films | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | 6.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | 6.53 films | 6.43 films |
| Romance | 6.31 film | — |
| Horror | 6.02 films | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Hope Springs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mark, Their Son-in-Law.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Cabrini
7.7 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
2024The Union
The current state of the argument, as Bobby Breslin.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Dr. Murphy
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde
as Patrick Harten
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as Daniel Sullivan
Directed by Ali Abbasi
as Bobby Breslin
Directed by Julian Farino
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
Dr. Murphy
Cabrini (2024)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Murphy gives Patch Darragh a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patrick Harten
Sully (2016)
Performance score7.1
Sully asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patrick Harten is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Daniel Sullivan
The Apprentice (2024)
Performance score6.8
The Apprentice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Daniel Sullivan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Doctor Falloway
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Performance score6.6
Brittany Runs a Marathon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doctor Falloway 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 Dr. Murphy
Start here. Cabrini is the clearest statement of what Patch Darragh does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patch 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.
Sully (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Cabrini but asks for a colder reading of it.
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Sully but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Apprentice (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Brittany Runs a Marathon but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Union (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The Apprentice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope Springs
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Sully
Gerard McMurray
Director
1 film together
Notably The First Purge
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Lucky McKee
Director
1 film together
Notably Old Man
Julian Farino
Director
1 film together
Notably The Union
Ali Abbasi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Apprentice
Alejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together
Notably Cabrini
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CabriniClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SullyAli Abbasi
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 ApprenticeClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the ReverendDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hope SpringsJulian Farino
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The UnionGerard McMurray
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The First PurgeLucky McKee
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old ManSix 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
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Apprentice
as Daniel Sullivan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
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. Patch Darragh 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The First Purge
as Arlo Sabian / Chief of Staff
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Cam
as Tinker
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Cabrini
as Dr. Murphy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The First Purge
as Arlo Sabian / Chief of Staff
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Apprentice
as Daniel Sullivan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cam
as Tinker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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