---
name: "Daryl McCormack"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daryl-mccormack"
fi1m_id: "daryl-mccormack"
imdb_id: "nm7580109"
tmdb_id: 1829245
wikidata_id: "Q103758842"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 January 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-21T04:27:36.599099+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."
---

# Daryl McCormack

## Identity

Daryl McCormack

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daryl-mccormack
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daryl-mccormack
- **IMDb ID:** nm7580109
- **TMDB ID:** 1829245
- **Wikidata ID:** Q103758842
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_McCormack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103758842, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7580109/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1829245

Actor. Born 22 January 1993 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 January 1993, Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** 다릴 맥코맥, Деріл МакКормак
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 74 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 77 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 2, Action 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $384m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_McCormack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103758842, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7580109/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1829245

## Coming up

- *Pride and Prejudice* (2026-12-03), as Mr. Bingley — [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice-2026.md)
- *I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning* (2026-12-04), as Conor
- *On the Edge* (2027-05-06), as Donnie (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Good Luck to You, Leo Grande*](https://film.one/film/good-luck-to-you-leo-grande.md) (79), [*Twisters*](https://film.one/film/twisters.md) (64)
- **Apple TV:** [*Bad Sisters*](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery*](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Daryl McCormack

> Daryl McCormack is at his best in a room with one other person, listening, and since the two-hander that made his name the films have mostly stood him in a crowd. Watch *Bad Sisters* for what he can do; elsewhere he is waiting.

Matt Claffin, in *Bad Sisters* (2022), is the younger of two brothers at an insurance firm that cannot afford to pay out on a dead man, and he spends the series falling for one of the dead man's sisters-in-law when he knows perfectly well he should not. McCormack plays him without fuss. He lets Eve Hewson's Becka do the talking and watches her, and the watching is the performance: calm, a little amused, entirely present. He does not take the scene from anyone. He makes the other person in it look better, which is a rarer skill and a less rewarded one.

That is the thing he does, and it took a while for anyone to ask for it. He trained in Dublin, made his debut in the soap *Fair City* (2015–2016), moved to London in 2017, and put in the years of small parts: *A Very English Scandal* (2018), Martin McDonagh's *The Lieutenant of Inishmore* on stage the same year, the recurring Isaiah Jesus in *Peaky Blinders* (2019–2022), a feature role in *Pixie* (2020). Then Sophie Hyde put him in a hotel room with Emma Thompson for *Good Luck to You, Leo Grande* (2022), a two-hander about a sex worker and a widow, and the calm turned out to be what the film needed. We have not reviewed it, so we will not weigh it here, but its shape tells you what he is for.

Since then the parts have got bigger and the rooms have got fuller. Jeb in *Twisters* (2024) is a face in a storm-chasing crew, and our review of the film found nothing to say about him, which is not the same as finding him wanting; there was nothing on the page. Cy Draven in *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025) sits in a pew with half a dozen well-known actors waiting to be suspected, and we said at the time that one or two of them could be lifted out without leaving a hole. He was one of the two. Rian Johnson gave perhaps four people a character, and McCormack was not among them.

*Bad Sisters* is where our reviews and his talent meet. The insurance track is the weaker half of Sharon Horgan's series, and we said so, but we found that whenever it cut back to Matt and Becka we stopped minding, because two actors who know their romance is a bad idea and play it sweetly anyway are good company for ten hours. We liked them more than the plot seemed to, and were sorry each time it remembered the ledger.

He has said he wants to pick roles that scare him a little. The recent ones have not been the frightening kind; they have been the kind where you stand at the edge of the frame and wait for a line. The next thing worth seeing him in will be whatever puts him back in a small room with one other person and a script that trusts him to listen.

## Biography

Daryl McCormack is an Irish actor. He was born on 22 January 1993 in Nenagh, County Tipperary. He trained at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama and the Gaiety School of Acting.

McCormack made his screen debut in the RTÉ soap opera *Fair City* (2015–2016). He appeared in the BBC series *Peaky Blinders* (2019–2022) as Isaiah Jesus and in the Apple TV+ series *Bad Sisters* (2022) as Matt Claffin. His film roles include *Good Luck to You, Leo Grande* (2022), *Twisters* (2024) as Jeb, and *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025) as Cy Draven. He received BAFTA Award nominations for his performance in *Good Luck to You, Leo Grande* and won the Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), Fi1m 77, as Cy Draven — [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Twisters* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Jeb — [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *Bad Sisters* (2022), Fi1m 78, as Matt Claffin — [page](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md)
- *Good Luck to You, Leo Grande* (2022), Fi1m 79, as Leo Grande — [page](https://film.one/film/good-luck-to-you-leo-grande.md)
- *A Very English Scandal* (2018), Fi1m 84, as Luke Mackenzie — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-very-english-scandal.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *On the Edge* (2027), as Donnie (voice)
- *I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning* (2026), as Conor
- *Pride and Prejudice* (2026), series, as Mr. Bingley — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice-2026.md)
- *Rogue Trooper* (2026), as (voice)
- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), as Cy Draven — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Anniversary* (2025), as Rob Thompson
- *Twisters* (2024), as Jeb — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *The Woman in the Wall* (2023), series, as Detective Colman Akande
- *The Lesson* (2023), as Liam Sommers
- *Bad Sisters* (2022), series, as Matt Claffin — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md)
- *Good Luck to You, Leo Grande* (2022), as Leo Grande — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/good-luck-to-you-leo-grande.md)
- *The Wheel of Time* (2021), series, as Aram
- *Pixie* (2020), as Harland McKenna
- *How to Fake a War* (2020), as Matt
- *A Good Woman Is Hard to Find* (2019), as PC Reeves
- *I Am...* (2019), series, as David
- *Cleaning Up* (2019), series, as Ryan
- *Lady Black Eyes* (2018), as Devon
- *Inner Child* (2018), as Finn
- *A Very English Scandal* (2018), series, as Luke Mackenzie — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-very-english-scandal.md)
- *Immortality* (2018), series, as Pio
- *Neon* (2017), as Jason
- *The Randomer* (2016), as Ray
- *Dawn* (2016), as Ukkanaak
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, as Isaiah Jesus — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *Vikings* (2013), series, as Young Arab Man — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md)
- *Cry to Heaven*, Actor
- *Untitled Dakota Fanning Thriller Series*, series, as Kar

## Gallery

- ![Daryl McCormack](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-5d99923aa87e.jpg) Daryl McCormack — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Daryl_McCormack-8636_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8636_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-5ed119581b85.jpg) Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Daryl_McCormack-8455.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8455.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-47ebed26da7d.jpg) Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Daryl_McCormack-8471.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8471.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-89a92bc37981.jpg) Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Daryl_McCormack-8632.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8632.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daryl McCormack](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-a9dccc76fafd.jpg) Daryl McCormack — Image via TMDB
- ![Daryl McCormack](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-044054457824.jpg) Daryl McCormack — Image via TMDB
- ![Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-0608ba7768d0.jpg) Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Daryl_McCormack-8635.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8635.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/7582/gallery-b48d3e8628d6.jpg) Actor Daryl McCormack at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Daryl_McCormack-8636.jpg/1280px-Daryl_McCormack-8636.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Trophée Chopard 2022: Trophée Chopard (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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