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Peter Sarsgaard

Born · March 7, 1971 (54 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Belleville, Illinois, USA

Bio

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.

Known for

The Batman

The Batman

Green Lantern

Green Lantern

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

Orphan

Orphan

The Bride!

2026

Coup!

Floyd Monk

2024

Memory

Saul

2023

Pet Shop Days

2023

Experimenter

Stanley Milgram

2015

Black Mass

Brian Halloran

2015

Pawn Sacrifice

Father Bill Lombardy

2015

Ladygrey

Samuel

2015

Valley Uprising

Narrator (Voice)

2014

Night Moves

Harmon

2014

Lovelace

Chuck Traynor

2013

Blue Jasmine

Dwight

2013

Very Good Girls

Fitzsimmons

2013

Robot & Frank

Robot (voice)

2012

Green Lantern

Hector Hammond

2011

Knight and Day

Fitzgerald

2010

An Education

David Goldman

2009

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children

Self

2009

Orphan

John

2009

In the Electric Mist

Elrod Sykes

2009

Elegy

Kenneth Kepesh

2008

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Cleveland Arning

2008

Rendition

Alan Smith

2007

Year of the Dog

Newt

2007

Jarhead

Alan Troy

2005

Flightplan

Carson

2005

The Skeleton Key

Luke Marshall

2005

The Dying Gaul

Robert Sandrich

2005

Kinsey

Clyde Martin

2004

Garden State

Mark

2004

Shattered Glass

Charles 'Chuck' Lane

2003

Death of a Dynasty

Brendon III

2003

Empire

Jack

2002

Unconditional Love

Window Washer

2002

K-19: The Widowmaker

Vadim Radtchinko

2002

The Salton Sea

Jimmy the Finn

2002

The Center of the World

Richard Longman

2001

Housebound

Mignon

2000

Boys Don't Cry

John Lotter

1999

Desert Blue

Billy Baxter

1999

Freak City

Cal Jackson

1999

The Man in the Iron Mask

Raoul

1998

The Damning of a Country Merchant

September 5

Roone Arledge

2024

Presumed Innocent

Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto · (8 episodes)

2024

The Survivor

Emory Anderson

2022

The Batman

District Attorney Gil Colson

2022

The Lost Daughter

Professor Hardy

2021

Dopesick

Rick Mountcastle · (8 episodes)

2021

The Guilty

Henry Fisher (voice)

2021

Best Summer Ever

Camera Man

2020

Human Capital

Quint Manning

2020

Homemade

Frank · (1 episode)

2020

Interrogation

David Russell · (10 episodes)

2020

Mr. Jones

Walter Duranty

2019

The Sound of Silence

Peter Lucian

2019

The Lie

Jay Logan

2018

The Looming Tower

Martin Schmidt · (10 episodes)

2018

Wormwood

Frank Olson · (6 episodes)

2017

Wormwood

Frank Olson

2017

Loving Pablo

Shepard

2017

Jackie

Robert Kennedy

2016

America Divided

Self · (8 episodes)

2016

The Magnificent Seven

Bartholomew Bogue

2016

Starring Austin Pendleton

Self

2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self · (2 episodes)

2015

The Slap

Hector · (8 episodes)

2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (1 episode)

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · (1 episode)

2014

The Killing

Ray Seward · (12 episodes)

2011

Conan

Self · (1 episode)

2010

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Alan Troy (archive footage)

2010

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Self · (1 episode)

2009

Indie Sex

Self · (3 episodes)

2007

High Falls

Pedro

2007

The Cell

Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)

2000

Another Day in Paradise

Ty

1998

Cracker

(1 episode)

1997

Subway Stories

Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")

1997

The Daily Show

Self · (1 episode)

1996

Dead Man Walking

Walter Delacroix

1995

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

1993

Law & Order

Josh Strand · (1 episode)

1990

This Week

(1 episode)

1981

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host · (1 episode)

1975

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)

1975

Neuromancer

John Ashpool · (10 episodes)