Peter Sarsgaard 1971 54
Peter Sarsgaard 1971 54
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.
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2026 The Bride!
2025 The Damning of a Country Merchant
2024 September 5 as Roone Arledge
2024 Coup! as Floyd Monk Executive Producer
2024 Presumed Innocent as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
2023 Memory as Saul
2023 Pet Shop Days
2022 The Survivor as Emory Anderson
2022 The Batman as District Attorney Gil Colson
2021 The Lost Daughter as Professor Hardy
2021 The Guilty as Henry Fisher (voice)
2020 Best Summer Ever as Camera Man Executive Producer
2020 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
2017 Wormwood as Frank Olson
2017 Loving Pablo as Shepard
2016 Jackie as Robert Kennedy
2016 The Magnificent Seven as Bartholomew Bogue
2016 Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2015 Experimenter as Stanley Milgram
2015 Black Mass as Brian Halloran
2015 Pawn Sacrifice as Father Bill Lombardy
2015 Ladygrey as Samuel
2014 Valley Uprising as Narrator (Voice)
2014 Night Moves as Harmon
2013 Lovelace as Chuck Traynor Executive Producer
2013 Blue Jasmine as Dwight
2013 Very Good Girls as Fitzsimmons
2012 Robot & Frank as Robot (voice)
2011 Green Lantern as Hector Hammond
2010 Knight and Day as Fitzgerald
2010 Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as Alan Troy (archive footage)
2009 An Education as David Goldman
2009 Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children as Self
2009 Orphan as John
2009 In the Electric Mist as Elrod Sykes
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
2007 High Falls as Pedro
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 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 Desert Blue as Billy Baxter
1999 Freak City as Cal Jackson
1998 Another Day in Paradise as Ty
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as Raoul
1997 Subway Stories as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
1995 Dead Man Walking as Walter Delacroix