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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 7, 1971
Place of Birth
Belleville, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- John Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard
2.3 Popularity
Biography
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
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The Bride!
2026
4.5
Pet Shop Days
2025
7.0
Roone Arledge
September 5
2024
6.5
Floyd Monk
Coup!
2024
7.9
Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
Presumed Innocent
2024
7.1
Saul
Memory
2023
6.8
Emory Anderson
The Survivor
2022
7.7
District Attorney Gil Colson
The Batman
2022
6.5
Professor Hardy
The Lost Daughter
2021
8.0
Rick Mountcastle
Dopesick
2021
Credits
The Bride!
2026
0.0
Pet Shop Days
2025
4.5
September 5
as Roone Arledge
2024
7.0
Coup!
as Floyd Monk
2024
6.5
Presumed Innocent
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
2024
7.9
Memory
as Saul
2023
7.1
The Survivor
as Emory Anderson
2022
6.8
The Batman
as District Attorney Gil Colson
2022
7.7
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy
2021
6.5
Dopesick
as Rick Mountcastle
2021
8.0
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice)
2021
6.4
Best Summer Ever
as Camera Man
2020
6.7
Human Capital
as Quint Manning
2020
5.7
Homemade
as Frank
2020
5.5
Interrogation
as David Russell
2020
6.7
Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty
2019
6.8
The Sound of Silence
as Peter Lucian
2019
5.8
The Lie
as Jay Logan
2018
6.4
The Looming Tower
as Martin Schmidt
2018
7.3
Wormwood
as Frank Olson
2017
6.3
Wormwood
as Frank Olson
2017
6.9
Loving Pablo
as Shepard
2017
6.3
Jackie
as Robert Kennedy
2016
6.5
America Divided
as Self
2016
6.0
The Magnificent Seven
as Bartholomew Bogue
2016
6.5
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
2016
6.7
Experimenter
as Stanley Milgram
2015
6.5
Black Mass
as Brian Halloran
2015
6.5
Pawn Sacrifice
as Father Bill Lombardy
2015
6.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Ladygrey
as Samuel
2015
4.4
The Slap
as Hector
2015
5.9
Valley Uprising
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
7.7
Night Moves
as Harmon
2014
5.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Lovelace
as Chuck Traynor
2013
6.0
Blue Jasmine
as Dwight
2013
7.0
Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons
2013
5.8
Robot & Frank
as Robot (voice)
2012
6.9
Green Lantern
as Hector Hammond
2011
5.2
The Killing
as Ray Seward
2011
7.8
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Knight and Day
as Fitzgerald
2010
6.2
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Alan Troy (archive footage)
2010
3.8
An Education
as David Goldman
2009
6.9
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
as Self
2009
0.0
Orphan
as John
2009
7.0
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
as Self
2009
7.0
In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes
2009
6.1
Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh
2008
6.3
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning
2008
4.1
Indie Sex: Teens
2008
3.5
Rendition
as Alan Smith
2007
6.4
Indie Sex
as Self
2007
5.1
Year of the Dog
as Newt
2007
5.4
High Falls
as Pedro
2007
0.0
Jarhead
as Alan Troy
2005
6.7
Flightplan
as Carson
2005
6.5
The Skeleton Key
as Luke Marshall
2005
6.6
The Dying Gaul
as Robert Sandrich
2005
5.9
Kinsey
as Clyde Martin
2004
6.6
Garden State
as Mark
2004
7.1
Shattered Glass
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
2003
7.0
Death of a Dynasty
as Brendon III
2003
5.4
Empire
as Jack
2002
6.0
Unconditional Love
as Window Washer
2002
5.9
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Vadim Radtchinko
2002
6.5
The Salton Sea
as Jimmy the Finn
2002
6.6
The Center of the World
as Richard Longman
2001
5.0
Housebound
as Mignon
2000
4.0
The Cell
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
2000
6.3
Boys Don't Cry
as John Lotter
1999
7.4
Desert Blue
as Billy Baxter
1999
5.7
Freak City
as Cal Jackson
1999
5.0
Another Day in Paradise
as Ty
1998
6.2
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Raoul
1998
6.6
Cracker
1997
6.9
Subway Stories
as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
1997
5.3
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Dead Man Walking
as Walter Delacroix
1995
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Law & Order
as Josh Strand
1990
7.4
This Week
1981
9.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
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Zero K
N/A
0.0
Neuromancer
as John Ashpool
N/A
0.0
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Road House 2
N/A
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The Damning of a Country Merchant
N/A
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