
Sam Rockwell
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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- 2026 · Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as
- 2025 · The Bad Guys 2 as Wolf (voice)
- 2025 · Is / Was \ Will as
- 2025 · The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis as Wolf (voice)
- 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 Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2022 · Maraschino Ruby as Wolf (voice)
- 2019 · Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
- 2019 · Fosse/Verdon as Bob Fosse
- 2018 · Blue Iguana as Eddie
- 2018 · Blaze as Oilman 3
- 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead as Silas Groves
- 2016 · Mr. Right as Mr. Right
- 2015 · Digging for Fire as Ray
- 2014 · Laggies as Craig Hunter
- 2014 · Loitering with Intent as Wayne
- 2013 · A Case of You as Gary
- 2013 · Trust Me as Aldo
- 2011 · Gettysburg as Narrator
- 2009 · Gentlemen Broncos as Bronco / Brutus
- 2008 · Choke as Victor Mancini
- 2008 · Woman In Burka as Sam
- 2004 · Piccadilly Jim as Jim Crocker
- 2003 · Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
- 2002 · Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Pizza Guy
- 2002 · Welcome to Collinwood as Pero
- 2001 · Heist as Jimmy Silk
- 1998 · Celebrity as Darrow Entourage
- 1998 · Safe Men as Samuel
- 1997 · Lawn Dogs as Trent
- 1997 · Subway Stories as Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
- 1997 · Drunks as Tony
- 1995 · Mercy as Matty
- 1992 · Light Sleeper as Jealous
- 1992 · Jack and His Friends as Louie
- 1990 · Over The Limit as Jason
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · Wild Horse Nine as
- 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 · Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary as Self
- 2019 · Jojo Rabbit as Captain Klenzendorf
- 2019 · The Best of Enemies as Claiborne Paul Ellis
- 2018 · Vice as George W. Bush
- 2018 · The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2018 · Mute as Sam Bell
- 2017 · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
- 2017 · The Dark of Night as Officer Witt
- 2017 · Axis as Himself
- 2015 · F is for Family as Vic (voice)
- 2015 · Don Verdean as Don Verdean
- 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 · Better Living Through Chemistry as Douglas Varney
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Showing Up as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2014 · Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Justin Hammer
- 2013 · Schooled: The Price of College Sports as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · A Single Shot as John Moon
- 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
- 2010 · Conviction as Kenny Waters
- 2010 · Iron Man 2 as Justin Hammer
- 2010 · F--k as Sam
- 2009 · Everybody's Fine as Robert
- 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
- 2009 · The Winning Season as Bill
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · Frost/Nixon as James Reston Jr.
- 2008 · The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw as Self
- 2007 · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
- 2007 · Snow Angels as Glenn Marchand
- 2007 · Joshua as Brad Cairn
- 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
- 2005 · The F Word as Jeremy
- 2005 · Unscripted as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Chuck Barris
- 2002 · 13 Moons as Rick
- 2001 · Made as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 2001 · BigLove as Nate
- 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 · Jerry and Tom as Jerry
- 1998 · Louis & Frank as Sam
- 1997 · Prince Street as
- 1997 · Arresting Gena as Sonny
- 1996 · Box of Moonlight as The Kid
- 1996 · Basquiat as Thug
- 1995 · Glory Daze as Rob
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as One-eye Jimmy
- 1994 · Somebody to Love as Polish Guy
- 1993 · NYPD Blue as Billy
- 1992 · In the Soup as Pauli
- 1992 · Happy Hell Night as Young Henry Collins
- 1991 · Strictly Business as Gary
- 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
- 1989 · Last Exit to Brooklyn as Al
- 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
- Future · DNA as
- Future · The Adventures of Drunky as Drunky
- Future · Stuntnuts: The Movie as
- Future · The Heart as
- Future · Hellhound as