--- name: "Dacre Montgomery" canonical: "https://film.one/person/dacre-montgomery" fi1m_id: "dacre-montgomery" imdb_id: "nm4223882" tmdb_id: 1525047 wikidata_id: "Q21554779" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 November 1994" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 71 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-20T08:29:22.445215+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Dacre Montgomery ## Identity Dacre Montgomery - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dacre-montgomery - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** dacre-montgomery - **IMDb ID:** nm4223882 - **TMDB ID:** 1525047 - **Wikidata ID:** Q21554779 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacre_Montgomery, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21554779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4223882/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1525047 Actor. Born 22 November 1994 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 November 1994, Perth, Western Australia, Australia - **Active:** 2016–present - **Also known as:** Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey - **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 68 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 72 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 2, Action & Adventure 1, Crime 1, History 1, Music 1, Mystery 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $291m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacre_Montgomery, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21554779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4223882/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1525047 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Dead Man's Wire*](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md) (70) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Dacre Montgomery > Dacre Montgomery made his name as a boy about to go off, and his most interesting work since has come from not going off. In *Dead Man's Wire* he plays a frightened, colourless hostage and makes the colourlessness do the work. In *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), Dacre Montgomery spends most of the film in a room with Bill Skarsgård's Kiritsis, and he does almost nothing. Richard Hall is a decent, frightened man with nothing much to say for himself, and Montgomery plays him that way rather than inventing a spine the man may not have had. He listens, he agrees, he waits. It is the least showy thing an actor can do on screen, and here it is what keeps the other man talking. That is a strange place to find him, because the part that made his name was the opposite. Billy Hargrove, the mulleted bully of *Stranger Things* (2017–2019, with a brief return in 2022), was a face that looked ready to hit someone, and Montgomery has been offered variations on him since: troubled young men with a temper and something soft underneath. Before that there were short films and theatre as a child, a feature debut in *A Few Less Men* (2017) and the Red Ranger in the *Power Rangers* reboot the same year, his first lead in a film. The commercial phase did not last. There were supporting parts in *Better Watch Out* (2017) and *The Broken Hearts Gallery* (2020), and a small one as Steve Binder in Baz Luhrmann's *Elvis* (2022), where we hardly noticed him, which in a Luhrmann film is not necessarily the actor's fault. Then he stopped, or nearly. For several years he took little major work, and when he came back it was to smaller and stranger films: the lead in *Went Up the Hill* (2024), a possession drama about trauma, then *Dead Man's Wire*, for which he was cast from a self-tape, and *Faces of Death* (2026). He has explained the gap himself: "I grew up watching auteur films. I wanted characters that challenged me to the greatest extent." On the evidence of Gus Van Sant's film, the challenge he chose was to be dull on purpose and trust the director to see why. What he has that the brooding-young-man casting only half uses is patience. The Hargrove reputation is for a face about to go off; the Hall performance is a face that has decided not to. We expected the hostage to bore us, frankly, and he did not: watching a man work out, minute by minute, that agreeing is safer than speaking turned out to be its own small suspense. The film is still Skarsgård's, and we said so at the time. But the quiet one is doing more than it looks. He is now preparing to direct, with *The Engagement Party*, and we will see whether the patience carries over to the other side of the camera. As an actor, the useful lesson of *Dead Man's Wire* is a simple one: he is better when the part does not ask him to look dangerous. ## Biography Dacre Montgomery is an Australian actor. Born Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey on 22 November 1994 in Perth, Western Australia, he trained at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. He made his feature debut in *A Few Less Men* (2017) and that year also appeared in *Power Rangers* as Jason Scott, the Red Ranger, and began playing Billy Hargrove in the Netflix series *Stranger Things* (2017–2022). Subsequent credits include *Better Watch Out* (2017), *The Broken Hearts Gallery* (2020) and *Elvis* (2022), in which he played Steve Binder. He is cast as Richard Hall in *Dead Man's Wire* (2026). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), Fi1m 70, as Richard Hall — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md) - *Elvis* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Steve Binder — [page](https://film.one/film/elvis.md) - *Stranger Things* (2016), Fi1m 77, as Billy Hargrove — [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Faces of Death* (2026), as Arthur Spevak - *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), as Richard Hall — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md) - *Went Up the Hill* (2025), as Jack / Elizabeth · Executive Producer - *What We Hide* (2025), as Reece - *Elvis* (2022), as Steve Binder — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/elvis.md) - *Ghost* (2021), as Man · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - *The Broken Hearts Gallery* (2020), as Nick - *Guilty Creatures* (2020), as Hamlet · Director, Producer - *In Vitro* (2020), as Male Narrator (voice) · Producer, Director, Writer - *Nightmares* (2019), as Narrator (voice) · Director, Writer, Producer - *Better Watch Out* (2017), as Jeremy - *Power Rangers* (2017), as Jason (Red Ranger) - *A Few Less Men* (2017), as Mike - *Stranger Things* (2016), series, as Billy Hargrove, Billy Hargrove (archive footage) (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md) - *Tryptophan* (2015), as Jake - *Godot's Clinic* (2015), as Barnabus Stottle - *Betrand the Terrible* (2011), as Fred - *Caine*, Actor - *The Engagement Party*, Director - *Moral Capacity*, as James Fisher ## Gallery - ![Cast & crew at the Power Rangers discussion Camp Conival offsite at Petco Park during San Diego Comic-Con 2016. From left: Dan Casey (moderator), Dean Israe](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-f73e116259a2.jpg) Cast & crew at the Power Rangers discussion Camp Conival offsite at Petco Park during San Diego Comic-Con 2016. From left: Dan Casey (moderator), Dean Israe — iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Cast_of_the_Power_Rangers_movie.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_the_Power_Rangers_movie.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cast & crew at the Power Rangers discussion Camp Conival offsite at Petco Park during San Diego Comic-Con 2016. From left: Dan Casey (moderator), Dean Israe](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-193d2fa9774b.jpg) Cast & crew at the Power Rangers discussion Camp Conival offsite at Petco Park during San Diego Comic-Con 2016. From left: Dan Casey (moderator), Dean Israe — iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Cast_of_the_Power_Rangers_movie_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_the_Power_Rangers_movie_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dacre Montgomery](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-cd3ea546182d.jpg) Dacre Montgomery — iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Dacre_Montgomery.jpg/1280px-Dacre_Montgomery.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dacre Montgomery speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-9f6ef37c929a.jpg) Dacre Montgomery speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Dacre_Montgomery_%2836046810392%29.jpg/1280px-Dacre_Montgomery_%2836046810392%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dacre Montgomery](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-f76e3ae41c32.jpg) Dacre Montgomery — Image via TMDB - ![Dacre Montgomery](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-6353ef6fd4db.jpg) Dacre Montgomery — Image via TMDB - ![Dacre Montgomery speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple](https://film.one/media/person/7385/gallery-17114e4b9c9b.jpg) Dacre Montgomery speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Dacre_Montgomery_%2836046845122%29.jpg/1280px-Dacre_Montgomery_%2836046845122%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/dacre-montgomery