Norman Reedus
Biography
Norman Reedus is an American actor who started out as a model and first acted on stage in Maps for Drowners at the Tiffany Theater. He broke through as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999), a part he returned to in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), and he took the role of Scud in Blade II (2002) while working mostly in independent films. In 2010 he joined AMC's horror drama The Walking Dead as Daryl Dixon, a character written for him, and the part earned him a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor; he later headlined the spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. He hosts Ride with Norman Reedus, played Sam Porter Bridges in the Death Stranding games, and appeared in Ballerina (2025).
57years old
Turns 58 on January 6in 85 days
- Born Hollywood
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Norman Mark Reedus (birth name)Also credited as Daryl Dixon
Movie Career
- Films
- 34
- Career span
- 28 years1997 to 2025
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Big break
Norman Reedus was cast as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead after he originally auditioned for the role of Merle Dixon, and the character was created specifically for him even though he was not in the comic book series.
A role that slipped away
In 2014, Reedus was announced to star in Silent Hills, a horror game by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. Kojima left Konami, the game was canceled in 2015, and Reedus later starred in Kojima's Death Stranding.
First role
Reedus began his acting career in the play Maps for Drowners, which was staged at the Tiffany Theater on Sunset Boulevard.
Norman Reedus movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Troy Duffy directed two of these films, Guillermo del Toro two and Christian Alvart two. Six actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Sean Patrick Flanery's page
Billy Connolly's page
Chris Bauer's page
André Hennicke's page
David Della Rocco's page
All films by Troy Duffy
Christian AlvartDirector, 2 films, 2005 to 2009
All films by Christian Alvart
Box office
What Norman Reedus's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$640 million
18 of the 34 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 34 films: 18 worldwide figure; 3 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 12 figure not found.
- 18Worldwide figure
- 3US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 12Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 92% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$155M24.2% of the total
- 2$137M21.5% of the total
- 3$104M16.3% of the total
- 4$97M15.1% of the total
- 5$36M5.6% of the total
- 6$25M4.0% of the total
- 7$21M3.2% of the total
- 8$15M2.4% of the total
$48.4 millionfrom the other 10 films with a worldwide figure, 8% of the total