1971-03-07 ( 54 years old ) 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.
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.
Movies
The Bride!
2026-03-05
September 5
2024-11-07
Coup!
2024-08-02
Memory
2023-12-22
Pet Shop Days
2023-09-03
The Survivor
2022-04-07
The Batman
2022-03-01
The Lost Daughter
2021-12-15
The Guilty
2021-09-24
Best Summer Ever
2020-10-10
Human Capital
2020-07-17
Mr. Jones
2019-10-03
The Sound of Silence
2019-09-13
The Lie
2018-09-13
Wormwood
2017-10-22
Loving Pablo
2017-10-12
Jackie
2016-12-02
The Magnificent Seven
2016-09-14
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016-04-01
Experimenter
2015-10-16
Black Mass
2015-09-17
Pawn Sacrifice
2015-09-16
Ladygrey
2015-05-06
Valley Uprising
2014-09-01
Night Moves
2014-04-23
Lovelace
2013-08-08
Blue Jasmine
2013-08-01
Very Good Girls
2013-01-22
Robot & Frank
2012-08-24
Green Lantern
2011-06-14
Knight and Day
2010-06-15
An Education
2009-10-29
Orphan
2009-07-24
In the Electric Mist
2009-04-15
Elegy
2008-08-08
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008-01-20
Rendition
2007-09-07
Year of the Dog
2007-04-13
High Falls
2007-01-19
Jarhead
2005-11-04
Flightplan
2005-09-22
The Skeleton Key
2005-07-29
The Dying Gaul
2005-01-20
Kinsey
2004-09-04
Garden State
2004-07-28
Shattered Glass
2003-11-14
Death of a Dynasty
2003-05-07
Empire
2002-12-06
Unconditional Love
2002-08-23
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002-07-19
The Salton Sea
2002-02-12
The Center of the World
2001-04-19
Housebound
2000-09-02
The Cell
2000-08-18
Boys Don't Cry
1999-09-02
Desert Blue
1999-06-04
Freak City
1999-01-16
Another Day in Paradise
1998-12-30
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998-03-12
Subway Stories
1997-07-24
Dead Man Walking
1995-12-29
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