Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6600
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Harris Dickinson 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.
Harris Dickinson appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Harris. Femme 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 music, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Mendes, Harris Dickinson, Halina Reijn and others, Harris Dickinson 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.
Femme (2021) as Wes · The Iron Claw (2023) as David Von Erich · Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) as Chase Andrews
Career snapshot
Ranked #6600 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2018–2028
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Femme
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Femme
Most frequent director
Sam Mendes
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Sam Mendes
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 25m
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Matthias & Maxime, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Darkest Minds — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Matthias & Maxime, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Darkest Minds.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 7.02 films | 4.311 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.83 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.73 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.53 films |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Liam Stewart.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Femme
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
The current state of the argument, as John Lennon.
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 David Von Erich
Directed by Unknown
as Chase Andrews
Directed by Olivia Newman
as Prince Phillip
Directed by Joachim Rønning
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
Wes
Femme (2021)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Wes gives Harris Dickinson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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David Von Erich
The Iron Claw (2023)
Performance score7.8
The Iron Claw asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David Von Erich is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chase Andrews
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Performance score7.8
Where the Crawdads Sing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chase Andrews is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carl
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Performance score7.6
Triangle of Sadness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carl 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 Wes
Start here. Femme is the clearest statement of what Harris Dickinson does — accessible, 18 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Harris 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.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Femme — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Maleficent: Mistress of Evil — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Where the Crawdads Sing but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Iron Claw (2023)
Same director as Triangle of Sadness, 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.
Sam Mendes
Director
4 films together
Notably The Beatles: Ringo
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Darkest Minds
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Matthias & Maxime
Sam H. Freeman
Director
1 film together
Notably Femme
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably The King's Man
Tom George
Director
1 film together
Notably See How They Run
Olivia Newman
Director
1 film together
Notably Where the Crawdads Sing
Charlotte Regan
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrapper
Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blitz
Halina Reijn
Director
1 film together
Notably Babygirl
Harris Dickinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Urchin
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Mendes
Director
4 films together · 0.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Beatles: RingoSam H. Freeman
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FemmeOlivia Newman
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Where the Crawdads SingJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maleficent: Mistress of EvilXavier Dolan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Matthias & MaximeJennifer Yuh Nelson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Darkest MindsHarris Dickinson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UrchinCharlotte Regan
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScrapperMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The King's ManTom George
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
See How They RunSteve McQueen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlitzHalina Reijn
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabygirlSix 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
The Iron Claw
as David Von Erich
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Chase Andrews
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Femme
as Wes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Matthias & Maxime
as McAfee
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Femme
as Wes
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. Harris Dickinson 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 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
Femme
as Wes
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Femme
as Wes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Where the Crawdads Sing
as Chase Andrews
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
See How They Run
as Richard Attenborough
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Darkest Minds
as Liam Stewart
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The King's Man
as Conrad Oxford
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Iron Claw
as David Von Erich
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Scrapper
as Jason
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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