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Peter Sarsgaard

Peter Sarsgaard

Birthday: 1971-03-07 | Place of Birth: Belleville, Illinois, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Batman

as    District Attorney Gil Colson

2022
The Survivor

as    Emory Anderson

2021
The Guilty

as    Henry Fisher (voice)

2021
The Lost Daughter

as    Professor Hardy

2021
Dopesick

as    Rick Mountcastle

2020
Interrogation

as    David Russell

2020
Human Capital

as    Quint Manning

2019
The Sound of Silence

as    Peter Lucian

2019
Mr. Jones

as    Walter Duranty

2018
The Lie

as    Jay Logan

2018
The Looming Tower

as    Martin Schmidt

2018
Loving Pablo

as    Shepard

2016
The Magnificent Seven

as    Bartholomew Bogue

2016
Jackie

as    Robert Kennedy

2015
Black Mass

as    Brian Halloran

2015
Pawn Sacrifice

as    Father Bill Lombardy

2015
The Slap

as    Hector

2015
Ladygrey

as    Samuel

2015
Experimenter

as    Stanley Milgram

2014
Night Moves

as    Harmon

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

2010
Knight and Day

as    Fitzgerald