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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 7, 1971
Place of Birth:
Belleville, Illinois, USA
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Peter Sarsgaard
Biography
John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. His first feature role was in Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film The Center of the World. The following year, he played supporting roles in Empire, The Salton Sea, and K-19: The Widowmaker.
For his portrayal of Charles Lane in Shattered Glass, Sarsgaard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sarsgaard has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy-drama Garden State, the biographical film Kinsey (2004), the drama The Dying Gaul (2005), and big-budget films such as Flightplan (2005), Jarhead (2005), The Skeleton Key (2005), Orphan (2009), An Education (2009), Knight and Day (2010), Green Lantern (2011), Lovelace (2013), Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves (2013), Blue Jasmine (2013), Black Mass (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). Sarsgaard also appeared in the American TV series The Killing (2013) as a man on death row perhaps wrongfully convicted for the brutal murder of his wife—a performance which he says included "some of the best acting I have ever done in my life." In 2021, he had a recurring role on the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.
Sarsgaard has appeared in Off-Broadway productions including Kingdom of Earth, Laura Dennis, Burn This, and Uncle Vanya. In September 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in The Seagull. He is married to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Bride! | |
| 2024 | Coup! | Floyd Monk |
| 2024 | September 5 | Roone Arledge |
| 2023 | Pet Shop Days | |
| 2023 | Memory | Saul |
| 2022 | The Survivor | Emory Anderson |
| 2022 | The Batman | District Attorney Gil Colson |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter | Professor Hardy |
| 2021 | The Guilty | Henry Fisher (voice) |
| 2020 | Human Capital | Quint Manning |
| 2020 | Best Summer Ever | Camera Man |
| 2019 | Mr. Jones | Walter Duranty |
| 2019 | The Sound of Silence | Peter Lucian |
| 2018 | The Lie | Jay Logan |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo | Shepard |
| 2017 | Wormwood | Frank Olson |
| 2016 | Jackie | Robert Kennedy |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | Bartholomew Bogue |
| 2016 | Starring Austin Pendleton | Self |
| 2015 | Pawn Sacrifice | Father Bill Lombardy |
| 2015 | Experimenter | Stanley Milgram |
| 2015 | Black Mass | Brian Halloran |
| 2015 | Ladygrey | Samuel |
| 2014 | Night Moves | Harmon |
| 2014 | Valley Uprising | Narrator (Voice) |
| 2013 | Very Good Girls | Fitzsimmons |
| 2013 | Lovelace | Chuck Traynor |
| 2013 | Blue Jasmine | Dwight |
| 2012 | Robot & Frank | Robot (voice) |
| 2011 | Green Lantern | Hector Hammond |
| 2010 | Knight and Day | Fitzgerald |
| 2010 | Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Alan Troy (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Orphan | John |
| 2009 | An Education | David Goldman |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist | Elrod Sykes |
| 2009 | Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children | Self |
| 2008 | The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Cleveland Arning |
| 2008 | Elegy | Kenneth Kepesh |
| 2007 | Rendition | Alan Smith |
| 2007 | Year of the Dog | Newt |
| 2007 | High Falls | Pedro |
| 2005 | Jarhead | Alan Troy |
| 2005 | Flightplan | Carson |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key | Luke Marshall |
| 2005 | The Dying Gaul | Robert Sandrich |
| 2004 | Garden State | Mark |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Clyde Martin |
| 2003 | Shattered Glass | Charles 'Chuck' Lane |
| 2003 | Death of a Dynasty | Brendon III |
| 2002 | The Salton Sea | Jimmy the Finn |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Vadim Radtchinko |
| 2002 | Empire | Jack |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love | Window Washer |
| 2001 | The Center of the World | Richard Longman |
| 2000 | Housebound | Mignon |
| 2000 | The Cell | Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | John Lotter |
| 1999 | Desert Blue | Billy Baxter |
| 1999 | Freak City | Cal Jackson |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Raoul |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise | Ty |
| 1997 | Subway Stories | Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground") |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | Walter Delacroix |
| The Damning of a Country Merchant |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Presumed Innocent | Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto |
| 2021 | Dopesick | Rick Mountcastle |
| 2020 | Interrogation | David Russell |
| 2020 | Homemade | Frank |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower | Martin Schmidt |
| 2017 | Wormwood | Frank Olson |
| 2016 | America Divided | Self |
| 2015 | The Slap | Hector |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2011 | The Killing | Ray Seward |
| 2010 | Conan | Self |
| 2009 | The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | Self |
| 2007 | Indie Sex | Self |
| 1997 | Cracker | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Josh Strand |
| 1981 | This Week | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| Neuromancer | John Ashpool |