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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Credits
- 2026 · Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as Man From The Future
- 2025 · The Bad Guys 2 as Wolf (voice)
- 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 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 · Trolls World Tour as Hickory (voice)
- 2019 · Jojo Rabbit as Captain Klenzendorf
- 2018 · Vice as George W. Bush
- 2018 · Blue Iguana as Eddie
- 2018 · Blaze as Oilman 3
- 2018 · Woman Walks Ahead as Silas Groves
- 2018 · Mute as Sam Bell
- 2017 · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
- 2016 · Mr. Right as Mr. Right
- 2015 · F is for Family as Vic (voice)
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Laggies as Craig Hunter
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · Drunk History as Bugsy Siegal
- 2013 · The Way Way Back as Owen
- 2013 · Trust Me as Aldo
- 2011 · Cowboys & Aliens as Doc
- 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
- 2008 · Choke as Victor Mancini
- 2007 · Snow Angels as Glenn Marchand
- 2007 · Joshua as Brad Cairn
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Zaphod Beeblebrox
- 2004 · Piccadilly Jim as Jim Crocker
- 2003 · Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Chuck Barris
- 2001 · Heist as Jimmy Silk
- 2001 · Made as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 2000 · Charlie's Angels as Eric Knox
- 2000 · Big Brother as Self - Guest
- 1999 · The Green Mile as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
- 1998 · Celebrity as Darrow Entourage
- 1998 · Safe Men as Samuel
- 1998 · Louis & Frank as Sam
- 1997 · Lawn Dogs as Trent
- 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
- 1993 · NYPD Blue as Billy
- 1992 · Light Sleeper as Jealous
- 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
- 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 · Ray Gunn as Raymond Gunn (voice)
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
- 2019 · Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
- 2019 · Fosse/Verdon as Bob Fosse
- 2019 · The Best of Enemies as Claiborne Paul Ellis
- 2015 · Don Verdean as Don Verdean
- 2015 · Digging for Fire as Ray
- 2015 · Poltergeist as Eric Bowen
- 2014 · Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · Loitering with Intent as Wayne
- 2014 · Better Living Through Chemistry as Douglas Varney
- 2014 · Showing Up as Self
- 2014 · Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Justin Hammer
- 2013 · A Case of You as Gary
- 2013 · A Single Shot as John Moon
- 2012 · Seven Psychopaths as Billy Bickle
- 2011 · The Sitter as Karl
- 2010 · F--k as Sam
- 2009 · Moon as Sam Bell
- 2009 · The Winning Season as Bill
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2007 · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
- 2002 · Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Pizza Guy
- 2002 · Welcome to Collinwood as Pero
- 2002 · 13 Moons as Rick
- 2000 · Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self (uncredited)
- 1999 · Galaxy Quest as Guy Fleegman
- 1999 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Francis Flute
- 1997 · Arresting Gena as Sonny
- 1995 · Mercy as Matty
- Future · Wild Horse Nine as Lee
- 1994 · Somebody to Love as Polish Guy
- 1992 · In the Soup as Pauli
- 1991 · Strictly Business as Gary
- 1990 · Over The Limit as Jason
- 1989 · Last Exit to Brooklyn as Al
- Future · Tumor as Frank Armstrong
- 2025 · Is / Was \ Will as
- 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 · Maraschino Ruby as Wolf (voice)
- 2019 · Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary as Self
- 2018 · The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2017 · The Dark of Night as Officer Witt
- 2017 · Axis as Himself
- 2013 · Schooled: The Price of College Sports as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Gettysburg as Narrator
- 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
- 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 F Word as Jeremy
- 2005 · Unscripted as Self
- 2001 · BigLove as Nate
- 1998 · Jerry and Tom as Jerry
- 1997 · Prince Street as
- 1992 · Happy Hell Night as Young Henry Collins
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · The Heart as
- Future · The Adventures of Drunky as Drunky
- Future · DNA as
- 1994 · The Search for One-eye Jimmy as One-eye Jimmy
- 1992 · Jack and His Friends as Louie
- Future · Stuntnuts: The Movie as
- Future · Hellhound as