Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11382
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Daniel Baldwin represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 37 years in, and Daniel is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Daniel Baldwin appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Born on the Fourth of July is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 fantasy, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tom Greene, Michael Sucsy, Paul Abascal and others, Daniel Baldwin 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.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention · Trees Lounge (1996) as Jerry · Grey Gardens (2009) as Julius 'Cap' Krug
Career snapshot
Ranked #11382 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1989–2026
Career length
37 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Born on the Fourth of July
Average Nutevio score
4.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Born on the Fourth of July
Most frequent director
Tom Greene
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tom Greene
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
1980s
7.0 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Born on the Fourth of July — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Born on the Fourth of July.
Most productive era
1990s
4 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.43 films | 6.02 films | 2.92 films | — |
| Action | — | — | 5.31 film | — | 0.01 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.01 film | 5.31 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.23 films | — | — | 3.21 film |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1989Born on the Fourth of July
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention. 7.0 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 Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One
The current state of the argument.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Directed by Oliver Stone
as Jerry
Directed by Steve Buscemi
as Julius 'Cap' Krug
Directed by Michael Sucsy
Directed by Tom Greene
as Draco
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vet #1 - Democratic Convention gives Daniel Baldwin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jerry
Trees Lounge (1996)
Performance score6.8
Trees Lounge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Julius 'Cap' Krug
Grey Gardens (2009)
Performance score6.7
Grey Gardens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julius 'Cap' Krug is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One
The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One (2026)
Performance score6.5
The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role 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 Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Start here. Born on the Fourth of July is the clearest statement of what Daniel Baldwin does — accessible, 145 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daniel 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.
Trees Lounge (1996)
Keeps the drama register of Born on the Fourth of July but asks for a colder reading of it.
Grey Gardens (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Trees Lounge but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Caretaker (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Grey Gardens — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Caretaker — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Born on the Fourth of July
Dan Aykroyd
Director
1 film together
Notably Nothing but Trouble
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably Hero
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulholland Falls
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Trees Lounge
Paul Abascal
Director
1 film together
Notably Paparazzi
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably Grey Gardens
Tom Greene
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Born on the Fourth of JulySteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trees LoungeMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grey GardensStephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeroLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mulholland FallsPaul Abascal
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaparazziDan Aykroyd
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nothing but TroubleTom Greene
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War OneSix 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
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Last Big Save
as Team Cheetah Trainer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
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. Daniel Baldwin 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
37 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
8 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
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mulholland Falls
as McCafferty
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Last Big Save
as Team Cheetah Trainer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mulholland Falls
as McCafferty
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Paparazzi
as Wendell Stokes
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Born on the Fourth of July
as Vet #1 - Democratic Convention
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Nothing but Trouble
as Artie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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