Peter Sarsgaard

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1971-03-07 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Belleville, Illinois, USA

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 ...

Acting

2005

Jarhead

as Alan Troy

1999

Boys Don't Cry

as John Lotter

2004

2008

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

as Cleveland Arning

2004

Kinsey

as Clyde Martin

2009

Orphan

as John

2007

Rendition

as Alan Smith

2002

The Salton Sea

as Jimmy the Finn

2009

An Education

as David Goldman

2008

Elegy

as Kenneth Kepesh

2002

K-19: The Widowmaker

as Vadim Radtchinko

2001

The Center of the World

as Richard Longman

2005

Flightplan

as Carson

2002

Empire

as Jack

2005

The Skeleton Key

as Luke Marshall

2003

Shattered Glass

as Charles 'Chuck' Lane

2007

2005

The Dying Gaul

as Robert Sandrich

2009

In the Electric Mist

as Elrod Sykes

1999

Desert Blue

as Billy Baxter

2010

Knight and Day

as Fitzgerald

2011

Green Lantern

as Hector Hammond

2002

Unconditional Love

as Window Washer

2013

Very Good Girls

as Fitzsimmons

2012

Robot & Frank

as Robot (voice)

2013

Lovelace

as Chuck Traynor

2014

Night Moves

as Harmon

2013

Blue Jasmine

as Dwight

1999

Freak City

as Cal Jackson

2023

Memory

as Saul

2015

Pawn Sacrifice

as Father Bill Lombardy

2003

Death of a Dynasty

as Brendon III

2000

Housebound

as Mignon

2015

Experimenter

as Stanley Milgram

2015

Black Mass

as Brian Halloran

2015

Ladygrey

as Samuel

1995

Dead Man Walking

as Walter Delacroix

2024

Coup!

as Floyd Monk

2014

Valley Uprising

as Narrator (Voice)

2016

Jackie

as Robert Kennedy

2016

The Magnificent Seven

as Bartholomew Bogue

2000

The Cell

as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)

2007

High Falls

as Pedro

2024

September 5

as Roone Arledge

2017

Loving Pablo

as Shepard

2017

Wormwood

as Frank Olson

2019

Mr. Jones

as Walter Duranty

2018

The Lie

as Jay Logan

2019

The Sound of Silence

as Peter Lucian

2020

Human Capital

as Quint Manning

2022

The Survivor

as Emory Anderson

2022

The Batman

as District Attorney Gil Colson

1997

Subway Stories

as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")

2020

Best Summer Ever

as Camera Man

2021

The Lost Daughter

as Professor Hardy

2021

The Guilty

as Henry Fisher (voice)

Production

2013

Lovelace

as Executive Producer

2024

Coup!

as Executive Producer

2020

Best Summer Ever

as Executive Producer

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