Cast
Peter Sarsgaard
Acting
Cast
Peter Sarsgaard
Known for
Acting
Born
1971-03-07
From
Belleville, Illinois, USA
Also known as John Peter Sarsgaard
Biography
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.
★7.7
MOVIE2022
The Batman
as District Attorney Gil Colson
★6.1
MOVIE2026
The Bride!
as Jake Wiles
★6.5
MOVIE2016
The Magnificent Seven
as Bartholomew Bogue
★6.4
MOVIE2021
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice)
★5.2
MOVIE2011
Green Lantern
as Hector Hammond
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Knight and Day
as Fitzgerald
★6.0
MOVIE2013
Lovelace
as Chuck Traynor
★7.0
MOVIE2009
Orphan
as John
★6.7
MOVIE1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Raoul
★6.3
MOVIE2000
The Cell
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Flightplan
as Carson
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Jarhead
as Alan Troy
★6.6
MOVIE2005
The Skeleton Key
as Luke Marshall
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Black Mass
as Brian Halloran
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Loving Pablo
as Shepard
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Dead Man Walking
as Walter Delacroix
★7.0
MOVIE2013
Blue Jasmine
as Dwight
★6.8
MOVIE2022
The Survivor
as Emory Anderson
★6.5
MOVIE2021
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Shattered Glass
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
★6.6
MOVIE2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Vadim Radtchinko
★7.0
MOVIE2024
September 5
as Roone Arledge
★7.4
MOVIE1999
Boys Don't Cry
as John Lotter
MOVIE2006
"Jarhead" Diaries
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2004
Garden State
as Mark
★6.9
MOVIE2009
An Education
as David Goldman
★6.7
MOVIE2015
Pawn Sacrifice
as Father Bill Lombardy
★6.5
MOVIE2016
Jackie
as Robert Kennedy
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Kinsey
as Clyde Martin
★6.4
MOVIE2007
Rendition
as Alan Smith
★6.1
MOVIE2009
In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes
★5.8
MOVIE2013
Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Robot & Frank
as Robot (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2023
Memory
as Saul
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Experimenter
as Stanley Milgram
★6.4
MOVIE2018
The Lie
as Jay Logan
★5.8
MOVIE2014
Night Moves
as Harmon
★6.2
MOVIE1998
Another Day in Paradise
as Ty
★6.6
MOVIE2002
The Salton Sea
as Jimmy the Finn
★5.8
MOVIE2019
The Sound of Silence
as Peter Lucian
MOVIETBA
Zero K
★6.7
MOVIE2019
Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty
★5.6
MOVIE2020
Human Capital
as Quint Manning
★5.6
MOVIE1997
Subway Stories
as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
★5.2
MOVIE2025
Pet Shop Days
★6.2
MOVIE2002
Empire
as Jack
★5.2
MOVIE2001
The Center of the World
as Richard Longman
★6.7
MOVIE2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2007
Year of the Dog
as Newt
★4.4
MOVIE2015
Ladygrey
as Samuel
★6.4
MOVIE2003
Death of a Dynasty
as Brendon III
★5.7
MOVIE1999
Desert Blue
as Billy Baxter
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Unconditional Love
as Window Washer
MOVIE2006
Jarhead: Background
as Self
★4.2
MOVIE2008
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning
MOVIETBA
Road House 2
★6.7
MOVIE2020
Best Summer Ever
as Camera Man
★7.7
MOVIE2014
Valley Uprising
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2024
Coup!
as Floyd Monk
★3.5
MOVIE2008
Indie Sex: Teens
★6.9
MOVIE2017
Wormwood
as Frank Olson
★6.0
MOVIE2005
The Dying Gaul
as Robert Sandrich
MOVIETBA
Erosion
as Christian Andersen
MOVIETBA
Flesh Impact
MOVIE2007
High Falls
as Pedro
★5.7
MOVIE1999
Freak City
as Cal Jackson
★3.8
MOVIE2010
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Alan Troy (archive footage)
MOVIE2009
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
as Self
MOVIETBA
The Damning of a Country Merchant
★4.9
MOVIE2000
Housebound
as Mignon