Peter Sarsgaard
Actor
Born March 7, 1971 in 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.
Filmography
Neuromancer
John Ashpool
The Bride!
Jake Wiles
DTF St. Louis
'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce
Pet Shop Days
September 5
Roone Arledge
Coup!
Floyd Monk
Presumed Innocent
Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
Memory
Saul
The Survivor
Emory Anderson
The Batman
District Attorney Gil Colson
The Lost Daughter
Professor Hardy
Dopesick
Rick Mountcastle
The Guilty
Henry Fisher (voice)
Best Summer Ever
Camera Man
Human Capital
Quint Manning
Homemade
Frank
Interrogation
David Russell
Mr. Jones
Walter Duranty
The Sound of Silence
Peter Lucian
The Lie
Jay Logan
The Looming Tower
Martin Schmidt
Wormwood
Frank Olson
Loving Pablo
Shepard
Wormwood
Frank Olson
Jackie
Robert Kennedy
America Divided
Self
The Magnificent Seven
Bartholomew Bogue
Starring Austin Pendleton
Self
Experimenter
Stanley Milgram
Black Mass
Brian Halloran
Pawn Sacrifice
Father Bill Lombardy
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Ladygrey
Samuel
The Slap
Hector
Valley Uprising
Self - Narrator (voice)
Night Moves
Harmon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Lovelace
Chuck Traynor
Blue Jasmine
Dwight
Very Good Girls
Fitzsimmons
Robot & Frank
Robot (voice)
Green Lantern
Hector Hammond
The Killing
Ray Seward
Conan
Self
Knight and Day
Fitzgerald
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Alan Troy (archive footage)
An Education
David Goldman
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
Self
Orphan
John
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Self
In the Electric Mist
Elrod Sykes
Elegy
Kenneth Kepesh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Cleveland Arning
Indie Sex: Teens
Rendition
Alan Smith
Indie Sex
Self
Year of the Dog
Newt
High Falls
Pedro
"Jarhead" Diaries
Self
Jarhead: Background
Self
Jarhead
Alan Troy
Flightplan
Carson
The Skeleton Key
Luke Marshall
The Dying Gaul
Robert Sandrich
Kinsey
Clyde Martin
Garden State
Mark
Shattered Glass
Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Death of a Dynasty
Brendon III
Empire
Jack
Unconditional Love
Window Washer
K-19: The Widowmaker
Vadim Radtchinko
The Salton Sea
Jimmy the Finn
The Center of the World
Richard Longman
Housebound
Mignon
The Cell
Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
Boys Don't Cry
John Lotter
Desert Blue
Billy Baxter
Freak City
Cal Jackson
Another Day in Paradise
Ty
The Man in the Iron Mask
Raoul
Cracker
Subway Stories
Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
The Daily Show
Self
Dead Man Walking
Walter Delacroix
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Law & Order
Josh Strand
This Week
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host