Sam Rockwell
November 5, 1968 (57 years old) in Daly City, California, USA
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo. Rockwell's other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Moon (2009), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2026 · Wild Horse Nine as Lee
- 2026 · Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as The Man From The Future
- 2025 · The Bad Guys 2 as Wolf (voice)
- 2025 · The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis as Wolf (voice)
- 2022 · Maraschino Ruby as Wolf (voice)
- 2019 · Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary as Self
- 2019 · The Best of Enemies as Claiborne Paul Ellis
- 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead as Silas Groves
- 2015 · Don Verdean as Don Verdean
- 2015 · Digging for Fire as Ray
- 2014 · Laggies as Craig Hunter
- 2014 · Better Living Through Chemistry as Douglas Varney
- 2014 · Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Justin Hammer
- 2013 · A Single Shot as John Moon
- 2013 · Trust Me as Aldo
- 2010 · F--k as Sam
- 2009 · The Winning Season as Bill
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · Choke as Victor Mancini
- 2007 · Snow Angels as Glenn Marchand
- 2007 · Joshua as Brad Cairn
- 2004 · Piccadilly Jim as Jim Crocker
- 2002 · Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Pizza Guy
- 2002 · Welcome to Collinwood as Pero
- 2001 · Made as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 2001 · BigLove as Nate
- 1998 · Louis & Frank as Sam
- 1997 · Subway Stories as Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
- 1997 · Drunks as Tony
- 1996 · Box of Moonlight as The Kid
- 1996 · Basquiat as Thug
- 1995 · Glory Daze as Rob
- 1994 · Somebody to Love as Polish Guy
- 1992 · Light Sleeper as Jealous
- 1991 · Strictly Business as Gary
- Future · The Heart as
- 1989 · Last Exit to Brooklyn as Al
- Future · Ray Gunn as Raymond Gunn (voice)
- 1992 · In the Soup as Pauli
- Future · DNA as
- 2025 · Is / Was \ Will as
- 2024 · IF as Guardian Dog (voice)
- 2024 · Argylle as Aidan Wilde
- 2022 · See How They Run as Inspector Stoppard
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
- 2022 · Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys' as Self
- 2022 · The Bad Guys as Wolf (voice)
- 2021 · What If...? as Justin Hammer (voice)
- 2021 · The White Lotus as Frank
- 2020 · The One and Only Ivan as Ivan (voice)
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
- 2020 · Trolls World Tour as Hickory (voice)
- 2019 · Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
- 2019 · Jojo Rabbit as Captain Klenzendorf
- 2019 · Fosse/Verdon as Bob Fosse
- 2018 · Vice as George W. Bush
- 2018 · Blue Iguana as Eddie
- 2018 · Blaze as Oilman 3
- 2018 · The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2018 · Mute as Sam Bell
- 2017 · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Dixon
- 2017 · The Dark of Night as Officer Witt
- 2017 · Axis as Sam (voice)
- 2016 · Mr. Right as Mr. Right
- 2015 · F is for Family as Vic (voice)
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Poltergeist as Eric Bowen
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Loitering with Intent as Wayne
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Showing Up as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · A Case of You as Gary
- 2013 · Schooled: The Price of College Sports as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Drunk History as Bugsy Siegal
- 2013 · The Way Way Back as Owen
- 2012 · Seven Psychopaths as Billy Bickle
- 2011 · The Sitter as Karl
- 2011 · Cowboys & Aliens as Doc
- 2011 · Gettysburg as Narrator
- 2010 · Conviction as Kenny Waters
- 2010 · Iron Man 2 as Justin Hammer
- 2009 · Everybody's Fine as Robert
- 2009 · Gentlemen Broncos as Bronco / Brutus
- 2009 · G-Force as Darwin the Guinea Pig (voice)
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Moon as Sam Bell
- 2008 · Frost/Nixon as James Reston Jr.
- 2008 · The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw as Self
- 2008 · Woman In Burka as Sam
- 2007 · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
- 2006 · Zerk and Shirts: Junk Yard Dogs as Rod
- 2005 · Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Nobody Wants Your Film as Self
- 2005 · Robin's Big Date as The Bat-Man
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Zaphod Beeblebrox
- 1998 · Jerry and Tom as Jerry
- Future · Stuntnuts: The Movie as
- 2005 · The F Word as Jeremy
- 2005 · Unscripted as Self
- 2003 · Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2002 · Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Chuck Barris
- 2002 · 13 Moons as Rick
- 2001 · Heist as Jimmy Silk
- 2000 · Charlie's Angels as Eric Knox
- 2000 · Big Brother as Self - Guest
- 2000 · Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self (uncredited)
- 1999 · Galaxy Quest as Guy Fleegman
- 1999 · The Green Mile as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
- 1999 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Francis Flute
- 1998 · Celebrity as Darrow Entourage
- 1998 · Safe Men as Samuel
- 1997 · Lawn Dogs as Trent Burns
- 1997 · Prince Street as
- 1997 · Arresting Gena as Sonny
- 1995 · Mercy as Matty
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as One-eye Jimmy
- 1993 · NYPD Blue as Billy
- 1992 · Jack and His Friends as Louie
- 1991 · Happy Hell Night as Young Henry Collins
- 1990 · Law & Order as Officer Weddeker
- 1990 · Law & Order as Randy Borland
- 1990 · Clownhouse as Randy Collins
- 1990 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Head Thug
- Future · The Bad Guys 3 as Wolf (voice)
- Future · Tumor as Frank Armstrong
- 1990 · Over the Limit as Jason
- 1985 · The Equalizer as Slick
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Jason
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · The Adventures of Drunky as Drunky
- Future · Hellhound as
- Future · The Cackling of the Dodos as