Prompt 6 of 7
Name a first-billed actor in a Christopher Nolan-directed feature film
11 accepted answers across 4 rarity tiers.
85 ptsDeep Cut2 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Fionn Whitehead— The unknown 20-year-old at the front of Dunkirk's ensemble and the soldier the film follows most closely.
- Jeremy Theobald— Nolan's university friend and the unnamed first-billed lead of Following, shot on weekends for about six thousand dollars.
60 ptsRare2 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Guy Pearce— Memento's first-billed man, even if Leonard could not remember it.
- John David Washington— Tenet never gives his character a name beyond the Protagonist, but it gives Washington top billing.
30 ptsSchooler4 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Al Pacino— The name atop Insomnia, Nolan's only feature he did not also write.
- Hugh Jackman— Billed ahead of Christian Bale in The Prestige's duel of magicians.
- Matt Damon— Odysseus himself in Nolan's 2026 voyage.
- Matthew McConaughey— First through the wormhole on Interstellar's billing.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Christian Bale— First billed in all three films of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
- Cillian Murphy— On his sixth Nolan appearance, he finally took first billing in Oppenheimer.
- Leonardo DiCaprio— First billed as dream thief Dom Cobb in Inception.