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Peter Sarsgaard

Actor, ProducerBorn March 7, 1971 (54 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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • K-19: The Widowmaker
  • Lovelace
  • Elegy
  • In the Electric Mist
  • Mr. Jones
  • Night Moves
  • Desert Blue
  • Freak City
  • Best Summer Ever

Known For

  • Orphan
  • The Batman
  • Green Lantern
  • Flightplan
  • Knight and Day
  • Jarhead
  • An Education
  • Garden State
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Dopesick
  • Jackie
  • The Skeleton Key
  • The Guilty
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • Black Mass
  • Pawn Sacrifice
  • Shattered Glass
  • K-19: The Widowmaker
  • The Lie
  • The Man in the Iron Mask
  • Experimenter
  • Kinsey
  • Robot & Frank

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2026
    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
    Mr. Jones · as Walter Duranty
    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
    2013
    Lovelace · as Chuck Traynor
    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
    2008
    Elegy · as Kenneth Kepesh
    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
    2005
    This Week (TV Series)
    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
    1998
    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

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