1971-03-07 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. 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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The Bride! | 2025-10-03 | |
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Memory | Saul | 2023-12-22 |
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Coup! | Floyd Monk | 2023-09-08 |
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Pet Shop Days | 2023-09-03 | |
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The Batman | District Attorney Gil Colson | 2022-03-01 |
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The Survivor | Emory Anderson | 2022-04-07 |
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The Guilty | Henry Fisher (voice) | 2021-09-24 |
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The Lost Daughter | Professor Hardy | 2021-12-16 |
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Human Capital | Quint Manning | 2020-07-17 |
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Best Summer Ever | Camera Man | 2020-10-10 |
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The Sound of Silence | Peter Lucian | 2019-09-13 |
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Mr. Jones | Walter Duranty | 2019-10-03 |
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The Lie | Jay Logan | 2018-09-13 |
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Loving Pablo | Shepard | 2017-10-12 |
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Wormwood | Frank Olson | 2017-10-22 |
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Jackie | Robert Kennedy | 2016-12-02 |
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The Magnificent Seven | Bartholomew Bogue | 2016-09-14 |
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Starring Austin Pendleton | 2016-04-01 | |
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Black Mass | Brian Halloran | 2015-09-17 |
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Pawn Sacrifice | Father Bill Lombardy | 2015-09-16 |
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Ladygrey | Samuel | 2015-05-06 |
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Experimenter | Stanley Milgram | 2015-10-16 |
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Night Moves | Harmon | 2014-04-23 |
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Valley Uprising | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-09-01 |
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Very Good Girls | Fitzsimmons | 2013-01-22 |
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Lovelace | Chuck Traynor | 2013-08-08 |
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Blue Jasmine | Dwight | 2013-08-01 |
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Robot & Frank | Robot (voice) | 2012-08-16 |
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Green Lantern | Hector Hammond | 2011-06-14 |
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Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Alan Troy (archive footage) | 2010-01-01 |
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Knight and Day | Fitzgerald | 2010-06-15 |
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An Education | David Goldman | 2009-10-29 |
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Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children | Self | 2009-10-27 |
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Orphan | John Coleman | 2009-07-24 |
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In the Electric Mist | Elrod Sykes | 2009-04-15 |
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Elegy | Kenneth Kepesh | 2008-08-08 |
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Cleveland Arning | 2008-01-20 |
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Rendition | Alan Smith | 2007-09-07 |
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Year of the Dog | Newt | 2007-04-13 |
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High Falls | Pedro | 2007-01-19 |
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The Skeleton Key | Luke Marshall | 2005-07-29 |
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Flightplan | Carson | 2005-09-22 |
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Jarhead | Alan Troy | 2005-11-04 |
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The Dying Gaul | Robert Sandrich | 2005-01-20 |
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Garden State | Mark | 2004-07-28 |
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Kinsey | Clyde Martin | 2004-09-04 |
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Death of a Dynasty | Brendon III | 2003-05-07 |
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Shattered Glass | Charles 'Chuck' Lane | 2003-11-14 |
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The Salton Sea | Jimmy the Finn | 2002-02-02 |
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Unconditional Love | Window Washer | 2002-08-23 |
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Empire | Jack | 2002-12-06 |
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K-19: The Widowmaker | Vadim Radtchinko | 2002-07-19 |
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The Center of the World | Richard Longman | 2001-04-19 |
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Housebound | Mignon | 2000-09-02 |
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The Cell | Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) | 2000-08-17 |
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Boys Don't Cry | John Lotter | 1999-09-02 |
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Freak City | Cal Jackson | 1999-01-16 |
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Desert Blue | Billy Baxter | 1999-06-04 |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Raoul | 1998-03-12 |
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Another Day in Paradise | Ty | 1998-12-30 |
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Subway Stories | Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground") | 1997-07-24 |
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Dead Man Walking | Walter Delacroix | 1995-12-29 |
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