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Peter Sarsgaard
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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 Nationa…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Peter Sarsgaard's Filmography
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Flesh Impact
as Director
The Bride!
as Jake Wiles
Pet Shop Days
September 5
as Roone Arledge
Coup!
as Floyd Monk
Memory
as Saul
The Survivor
as Emory Anderson
The Batman
as District Attorney Gil Colson
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice)
Best Summer Ever
as Camera Man
Human Capital
as Quint Manning
Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty
The Sound of Silence
as Peter Lucian
The Lie
as Jay Logan
Loving Pablo
as Shepard
Wormwood
as Frank Olson
Jackie
as Robert Kennedy
The Magnificent Seven
as Bartholomew Bogue
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
Experimenter
as Stanley Milgram
Black Mass
as Brian Halloran
Pawn Sacrifice
as Father Bill Lombardy
Ladygrey
as Samuel
Valley Uprising
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Night Moves
as Harmon
Lovelace
as Chuck Traynor
Blue Jasmine
as Dwight
Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons
Robot & Frank
as Robot (voice)
Green Lantern
as Hector Hammond
Knight and Day
as Fitzgerald
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Alan Troy (archive footage)
An Education
as David Goldman
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
as Self
Orphan
as John
In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes
Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning
Indie Sex: Teens
Rendition
as Alan Smith
Year of the Dog
as Newt
High Falls
as Pedro
"Jarhead" Diaries
as Self
Jarhead: Background
as Self
Jarhead
as Alan Troy
Flightplan
as Carson
The Skeleton Key
as Luke Marshall
The Dying Gaul
as Robert Sandrich
Kinsey
as Clyde Martin
Garden State
as Mark
Shattered Glass
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Death of a Dynasty
as Brendon III
Empire
as Jack
Unconditional Love
as Window Washer
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Vadim Radtchinko
The Salton Sea
as Jimmy the Finn
The Center of the World
as Richard Longman
Housebound
as Mignon
The Cell
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
Boys Don't Cry
as John Lotter
Desert Blue
as Billy Baxter
Freak City
as Cal Jackson
Another Day in Paradise
as Ty
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Raoul
Subway Stories
as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
Dead Man Walking
as Walter Delacroix
No Poster
Zero K
No Poster
Road House 2
No Poster
Erosion
as Christian Andersen
