---
name: "David Corenswet"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-corenswet"
fi1m_id: "david-corenswet"
imdb_id: "nm4825178"
tmdb_id: 1785590
wikidata_id: "Q70954450"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 July 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-23T04:22:32.274043+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."
---

# David Corenswet

## Identity

David Corenswet

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-corenswet
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-corenswet
- **IMDb ID:** nm4825178
- **TMDB ID:** 1785590
- **Wikidata ID:** Q70954450
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Corenswet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70954450, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4825178/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1785590

Actor. Born 8 July 1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 July 1993, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Also known as:** David Packard Corenswet
- **Frequently works with:** [David Krumholtz](https://film.one/person/david-krumholtz.md), [James Gunn](https://film.one/person/james-gunn.md), [Peter Safran](https://film.one/person/peter-safran.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 64 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 6 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 2, Crime 2, Drama 2, Science Fiction 2, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,127m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Corenswet, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70954450, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4825178/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1785590

## Coming up

- *Mr. Irrelevant* (2026-12-25), as John Tuggle — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-irrelevant.md)
- *Man of Tomorrow* (2027-07-07), as Superman

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Pearl*](https://film.one/film/pearl.md) (76), [*Twisters*](https://film.one/film/twisters.md) (64)
- **HBO Max:** [*We Own This City*](https://film.one/tv/we-own-this-city.md) (75), [*Superman*](https://film.one/film/superman.md) (66)
- **Apple TV:** [*Lady in the Lake*](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md) (57)
- **Hulu:** [*Supergirl*](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md) (56)

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

## Fi1m on David Corenswet

> David Corenswet plays decent men who want badly to be liked, and he lets us see what it costs them when they are not. It made him a Superman worth watching. In smaller parts it has so far left him handsome, kind and underused.

Near the middle of *Superman* (2025), Clark Kent sits on a porch in Kansas with his adoptive father. There is no music. He says very little. What David Corenswet does instead is let the hurt sit on his face, and James Gunn holds the shot long enough for us to see it. We were moved more than we expected to be by a superhero film, and that scene was what did it: a large, capable man who has just found out he is not wanted, and who has no idea what to do about it.

That is his gift, as far as we have seen it. He is big and open-faced and he plays men who want to be liked, and he is good at the moment when they are not. His Superman is more interesting than the untroubled god we usually get because he bruises so easily. The long argument with Rachel Brosnahan's Lois on the sofa in her flat works for the same reason: she is quicker than him and knows it, and he knows it too and tries not to mind. Nobody flies. Nothing blows up. It is the best written scene in the film and he holds his end of it.

The career before that was mostly a matter of being noticed in other people's stories. He trained at Juilliard and then found leads in two Ryan Murphy series, *The Politician* (2019) and *Hollywood* (2020), heightened, period-dressed work that raised his profile. On film he has spent more time at the edge of the frame. In Ti West's *Pearl* (2022) he is the projectionist who shows Mia Goth's Pearl a film she should not see, a part written to say the things she needs to hear, and he has little to do but be handsome and kind about it. In *We Own This City* (2022), David Simon and George Pelecanos's Baltimore is crowded and he is one face in it. When *Supergirl* (2026) brought Superman back, he appeared and was polite, which is a fair account of what the script gave him.

The pattern is plain enough. Corenswet is at his best when a director lets him want something and then takes it away, and at his weakest when he is asked only to be agreeable, because agreeable is what he looks like before he has done anything. Gunn saw the difference. West, with a slighter part to fill, did not need to. In 2019, before anyone had asked him, he said that "my pie-in-the-sky ambition is definitely to play Superman." He got the part and he was the best thing in the film. The next test is whether somebody offers him a man who is not nice, or a nice man in a film that does not keep going back to the robots.

## Biography

David Packard Corenswet is an American actor. He graduated from the Juilliard School with a BFA in drama in 2016. He began with guest roles in television series including *House of Cards* (2018) and *Elementary* (2012).

Corenswet played lead roles in the Netflix series *The Politician* (2019–2020) and *Hollywood* (2020). In 2022 he appeared in the films *Look Both Ways* and *Pearl*, and the HBO miniseries *We Own This City*. He played Scott in the film *Twisters* (2024) and the titular superhero in James Gunn's *Superman* (2025) and *Supergirl* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, biography.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Supergirl* (2026), Fi1m 56, as Superman — [page](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md)
- *Superman* (2025), Fi1m 66, as Superman — [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md)
- *Lady in the Lake* (2024), Fi1m 57, as Allan Durst — [page](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md)
- *Twisters* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Scott — [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *Pearl* (2022), Fi1m 76, as Projectionist — [page](https://film.one/film/pearl.md)
- *We Own This City* (2022), Fi1m 75, as David McDougall — [page](https://film.one/tv/we-own-this-city.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Man of Tomorrow* (2027), as Superman
- *Mr. Irrelevant* (2026), as John Tuggle — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-irrelevant.md)
- *Supergirl* (2026), as Superman — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md)
- *Woman in the Sky* (2025), Executive Producer, Director of Photography
- *Superman* (2025), as Superman — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md)
- *Lady in the Lake* (2024), series, as Allan Durst — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/tv/lady-in-the-lake-2024.md)
- *Twisters* (2024), as Scott — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *The Greatest Hits* (2024), as Max Enders
- *Pearl* (2022), as Projectionist — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/pearl.md)
- *Look Both Ways* (2022), as Jake
- *We Own This City* (2022), series, as David McDougall — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/we-own-this-city.md)
- *Project Pay Day* (2021), as Lifeguard
- *The Sunlit Night* (2020), as Scott Glenn
- *Hollywood* (2020), series, as Jack Castello · Executive Producer
- *The Politician* (2019), series, as River Barkley
- *Campfire Alpha* (2019), Editor
- *Affairs of State* (2018), as Michael Lawson
- *Sink Sank Sunk* (2018), series, Editor, Assistant Director, Camera Operator
- *Perfect Little Parcel* (2018), Director of Photography, Editor
- *Pretty Crystals* (2018), Editor, Director of Photography
- *Instinct* (2018), series, as Spencer Baymoore
- *Moe & Jerryweather* (2014), series, as Jerryweather · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Creator
- *House of Cards* (2013), series, as Reed
- *Elementary* (2012), series, as Houston Spivey
- *Following Chase* (2012), as Ted · Writer

## Gallery

- ![David Corenswet July 2025](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-f6904d54ac5c.jpg) David Corenswet July 2025 — Today FM, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/David_Corenswet_July_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Corenswet July 2025](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-b8147dbed4da.jpg) David Corenswet July 2025 — Today FM, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/David_Corenswet_July_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-ecd5046a08a8.jpg) David Corenswet — U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/David_Corenswet_Manila_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Superman (2025) actors David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan at a fan event at the SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines, on June 19, 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-c709afb89a39.jpg) Superman (2025) actors David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan at a fan event at the SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines, on June 19, 2025. — Patrick Cristiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/David_Corenswet_and_Rachel_Brosnahan_in_Manila_%282025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-17c4f2080887.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-23ad0ea09c1a.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-bc058ca37d5e.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB
- ![David Corenswet as Clark Kent on the set of Superman during filming in Cleveland in June 2024.](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-0671e583f8bc.jpg) David Corenswet as Clark Kent on the set of Superman during filming in Cleveland in June 2024. — Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/David_Corenswet_as_Clark_Kent_%2853817593908%29.jpg/1280px-David_Corenswet_as_Clark_Kent_%2853817593908%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-da9e39e0f2da.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-a2645acecf3c.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB
- ![David Corenswet](https://film.one/media/person/6581/gallery-6c66ab2e606d.jpg) David Corenswet — Image via TMDB

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