Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#129
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daniel Radcliffe represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 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 Radcliffe appears in 33 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian McElhaney, Maria Friedman, Jon Bass and others, Daniel Radcliffe 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.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Harry Potter · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Harry Potter · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as Harry Potter
Career snapshot
Ranked #129 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
33
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Most frequent director
David Yates
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With David Yates
Most common genre
Fantasy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, December Boys — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.4
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. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, December Boys.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 6.02 films | 6.58 films | 7.21 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 6.56 films | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.34 films | 5.08 films |
| Crime | — | 6.72 films | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 6.64 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Harry Potter. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Steps
The current state of the argument, as The Prince (voice).
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.
33 of 33 films
as Harry Potter
Directed by David Yates
as Harry Potter
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Harry Potter
Directed by Chris Columbus
as Harry Potter
Directed by Mike Newell
as Harry Potter
Directed by David Yates
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
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Harry Potter gives Daniel Radcliffe a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Performance score8.7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harry Potter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Performance score8.7
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harry Potter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Performance score8.6
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harry Potter 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 Harry Potter
Start here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the clearest statement of what Daniel Radcliffe does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.3 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.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Yates
Director
4 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
John Boorman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tailor of Panama
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rod Hardy
Director
1 film together
Notably December Boys
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Woman in Black
John Krokidas
Director
1 film together
Notably Kill Your Darlings
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably What If
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Victor Frankenstein
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably Trainwreck
Daniel Kwan
Director
1 film together
Notably Swiss Army Man
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me 2
Greg McLean
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungle
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Eric Appel
Director
1 film together
Notably Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Adam Nee
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lost City
Jon Bass
Director
1 film together
Notably Carole & Grey
Maria Friedman
Director
1 film together
Notably Merrily We Roll Along
Brian McElhaney
Director
1 film together
Notably Pizza Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Yates
Director
4 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Chris Columbus
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneAlfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanMike Newell
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to HogwartsJohn Krokidas
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill Your DarlingsDaniel Kwan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Swiss Army ManJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me 2Maria Friedman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Merrily We Roll AlongEric Appel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryGreg McLean
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JungleMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What IfBrian McElhaney
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pizza MovieAdam Nee
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lost CityClaire 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 ReverendJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Woman in BlackPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Victor FrankensteinRod Hardy
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
December BoysJohn Boorman
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 Tailor of PanamaJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrainwreckJon Bass
Director
1 film together · 1.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carole & GreySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
7 wins
1 win
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win · latest 2016
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win · latest 2024
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Harry Potter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Kill Your Darlings
as Allen Ginsberg
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Harry Potter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pizza Movie
as Lysander (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Harry Potter
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 Radcliffe 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.
Fantasy Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in fantasy, 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
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Harry Potter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Now You See Me 2
as Walter Mabry
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swiss Army Man
as Manny
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Harry Potter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Harry Potter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Lost City
as Abigail Fairfax
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Swiss Army Man
as Manny
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Harry Potter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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