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Peter Sarsgaard
Actor, Producer
Born March 7, 1971 (53 years)
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.
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.
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Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | September 5 · as Roone Arledge |
| 2024 | Presumed Innocent (TV Series) · as Tommasino 'tommy' Molto |
| 2023 | Coup! · as Floyd Monk |
| 2023 | Memory · as Saul |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | The Batman · as District Attorney Gil Colson |
| 2021 | The Survivor · as Emory Anderson |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter · as Professor Hardy |
| 2021 | Dopesick (TV Series) · as Rick Mountcastle |
| 2021 | The Guilty · as Henry Fisher (voice) |
| 2020 | Best Summer Ever · as Camera Man |
| 2020 | Homemade (TV Series) · as Frank |
| 2020 | Interrogation (TV Series) · as David Russell |
| 2019 | Human Capital · as Quint Manning |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | The Sound of Silence · as Peter Lucian |
| 2018 | The Lie · as Jay Logan |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower (TV Series) · as Martin Schmidt |
| 2017 | Wormwood (2017) (TV Series) · as Frank Olson |
| 2017 | Wormwood · as Frank Olson |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo · as Shepard |
| 2016 | Jackie · as Robert Kennedy |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven · as Bartholomew Bogue |
| 2015 | Experimenter · as Stanley Milgram |
| 2015 | Black Mass · as Brian Halloran |
| 2015 | Ladygrey · as Samuel |
| 2015 | The Slap (US) (TV Series) · as Hector |
| 2014 | Pawn Sacrifice · as Father Bill Lombardy |
| 2014 | Valley Uprising · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Night Moves · as Harmon |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Blue Jasmine · as Dwight |
| 2013 | Very Good Girls · as Fitzsimmons |
| 2012 | Robot & Frank · as Robot (voice) |
| 2011 | Green Lantern · as Hector Hammond |
| 2011 | The Killing (US) (TV Series) · as Ray Seward |
| 2010 | Knight and Day · as Fitzgerald |
| 2009 | An Education · as David Goldman |
| 2009 | Orphan · as John |
| 2009 | The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) |
| 2009 | In the Electric Mist · as Elrod Sykes |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | The Mysteries of Pittsburgh · as Cleveland Arning |
| 2007 | Rendition · as Alan Smith |
| 2007 | Year of the Dog · as Newt |
| 2005 | Jarhead · as Alan Troy |
| 2005 | Flightplan · as Carson |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key · as Luke Marshall |
| 2005 | The Dying Gaul · as Robert Sandrich |
| 2004 | Kinsey · as Clyde Martin |
| 2004 | Garden State · as Mark |
| 2003 | Shattered Glass · as Charles 'chuck' Lane |
| 2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · as John Lotter |
| 2003 | Death of a Dynasty · as Brendon Iii |
| 2002 | Empire · as Jack |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love · as Window Washer |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker · as Vadim Radtchinko |
| 2002 | The Salton Sea · as Jimmy The Finn |
| 2001 | The Center of the World · as Richard Longman |
| 2000 | Housebound · as Mignon |
| 2000 | The Cell · as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry · as John Lotter |
| 1999 | Freak City · as Cal Jackson |
| 1998 | Desert Blue · as Billy Baxter |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise · as Ty |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask · as Raoul |
| 1997 | Cracker (US) (TV Series) |
| 1997 | SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground · as Boy No. 1 (segment "underground") |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking · as Walter Delacroix |
| 1994 | New York Undercover (TV Series) · as Donald Jones |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Josh Strand |
| 1960 | This Week (TV Series) |