Peter Sarsgaard
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Bride! as
- 2024 · September 5 as Roone Arledge
- 2024 · Coup! as Floyd Monk
- 2024 · Presumed Innocent as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
- 2023 · Memory as Saul
- 2023 · Pet Shop Days as
- 2022 · Vengeance in the Making as Self
- 2022 · The Survivor as Emory Anderson
- 2022 · The Batman as District Attorney Gil Colson
- 2021 · The Lost Daughter as Professor Hardy
- 2021 · Dopesick as Rick Mountcastle
- 2021 · The Guilty as Henry Fisher (voice)
- 2020 · Best Summer Ever as Camera Man
- 2020 · Human Capital as Quint Manning
- 2020 · Homemade as Frank
- 2020 · Interrogation as David Russell
- 2019 · Mr. Jones as Walter Duranty
- 2019 · The Sound of Silence as Peter Lucian
- 2018 · The Lie as Jay Logan
- 2018 · The Looming Tower as Martin Schmidt
- 2017 · Wormwood as Frank Olson
- 2017 · Wormwood as Frank Olson
- 2017 · Loving Pablo as Shepard
- 2016 · Jackie as Robert Kennedy
- 2016 · America Divided as Self
- 2016 · The Magnificent Seven as Bartholomew Bogue
- 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2015 · Experimenter as Stanley Milgram
- 2015 · Black Mass as Brian Halloran
- 2015 · Pawn Sacrifice as Father Bill Lombardy
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Ladygrey as Samuel
- 2015 · The Slap as Hector
- 2014 · Valley Uprising as Narrator (Voice)
- 2014 · Night Moves as Harmon
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Lovelace as Chuck Traynor
- 2013 · Blue Jasmine as Dwight
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Fitzsimmons
- 2012 · Robot & Frank as Robot (voice)
- 2011 · Green Lantern as Hector Hammond
- 2011 · The Killing as Ray Seward
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Knight and Day as Fitzgerald
- 2010 · Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize as Alan Troy (archive footage)
- 2009 · An Education as David Goldman
- 2009 · Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children as Self
- 2009 · Orphan as John
- 2009 · The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as
- 2009 · In the Electric Mist as Elrod Sykes
- 2008 · Elegy as Kenneth Kepesh
- 2008 · The Mysteries of Pittsburgh as Cleveland Arning
- 2007 · Rendition as Alan Smith
- 2007 · Indie Sex as Self
- 2007 · Year of the Dog as Newt
- 2007 · High Falls as Pedro
- 2005 · Jarhead as Alan Troy
- 2005 · Flightplan as Carson
- 2005 · The Skeleton Key as Luke Marshall
- 2005 · The Dying Gaul as Robert Sandrich
- 2004 · Kinsey as Clyde Martin
- 2004 · Garden State as Mark
- 2003 · Shattered Glass as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
- 2003 · Death of a Dynasty as Brendon III
- 2002 · Empire as Jack
- 2002 · Unconditional Love as Window Washer
- 2002 · K-19: The Widowmaker as Vadim Radtchinko
- 2002 · The Salton Sea as Jimmy the Finn
- 2001 · The Center of the World as Richard Longman
- 2000 · Housebound as Mignon
- 2000 · The Cell as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
- 1999 · Boys Don't Cry as John Lotter
- 1999 · Desert Blue as Billy Baxter
- 1999 · Freak City as Cal Jackson
- 1998 · Another Day in Paradise as Ty
- 1998 · The Man in the Iron Mask as Raoul
- 1997 · Cracker as
- 1997 · Subway Stories as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
- 1995 · Dead Man Walking as Walter Delacroix
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1990 · Law & Order as Josh Strand
- 1981 · This Week as
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Boogerman
- Future · The Damning of a Country Merchant as