Peter Sarsgaard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 7, 1971 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Belleville, Illinois, USA
- Credits
- 94
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
The Batman
2022Movie
District Attorney Gil Colson
Green Lantern
2011Movie
Hector Hammond
The Magnificent Seven
2016Movie
Bartholomew Bogue
Orphan
2009Movie
John
Knight and Day
2010Movie
Fitzgerald
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998Movie
Raoul
Filmography
Neuromancer
2027TV
John Ashpool
Flesh Impact
2026Movie
Director
The Bride!
2026Movie
Jake Wiles
DTF St. Louis
2026TV
'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce
Pet Shop Days
2025Movie
September 5
2024Movie
Roone Arledge
Coup!
2024Movie
Floyd Monk
Presumed Innocent
2024TV
Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
Memory
2023Movie
Saul
The Survivor
2022Movie
Emory Anderson
The Batman
2022Movie
District Attorney Gil Colson
The Lost Daughter
2021Movie
Professor Hardy
Dopesick
2021TV
Rick Mountcastle
The Guilty
2021Movie
Henry Fisher (voice)
Best Summer Ever
2020Movie
Camera Man
Human Capital
2020Movie
Quint Manning
Homemade
2020TV
Frank
Interrogation
2020TV
David Russell
Mr. Jones
2019Movie
Walter Duranty
The Sound of Silence
2019Movie
Peter Lucian
The Lie
2018Movie
Jay Logan
The Looming Tower
2018TV
Martin Schmidt
Wormwood
2017TV
Frank Olson
Loving Pablo
2017Movie
Shepard
Wormwood
2017Movie
Frank Olson
Jackie
2016Movie
Robert Kennedy
America Divided
2016TV
Self
The Magnificent Seven
2016Movie
Bartholomew Bogue
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016Movie
Self
Experimenter
2015Movie
Stanley Milgram
Black Mass
2015Movie
Brian Halloran
Pawn Sacrifice
2015Movie
Father Bill Lombardy
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self
Ladygrey
2015Movie
Samuel
The Slap
2015TV
Hector
Valley Uprising
2014Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Night Moves
2014Movie
Harmon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self
Lovelace
2013Movie
Chuck Traynor
Blue Jasmine
2013Movie
Dwight
Very Good Girls
2013Movie
Fitzsimmons
Robot & Frank
2012Movie
Robot (voice)
Green Lantern
2011Movie
Hector Hammond
The Killing
2011TV
Ray Seward
Conan
2010TV
Self
Knight and Day
2010Movie
Fitzgerald
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010Movie
Alan Troy (archive footage)
An Education
2009Movie
David Goldman
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
2009Movie
Self
Orphan
2009Movie
John
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009TV
Self
In the Electric Mist
2009Movie
Elrod Sykes
Elegy
2008Movie
Kenneth Kepesh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008Movie
Cleveland Arning
Indie Sex: Teens
2008Movie
Rendition
2007Movie
Alan Smith
Indie Sex
2007TV
Self
Year of the Dog
2007Movie
Newt
High Falls
2007Movie
Pedro
"Jarhead" Diaries
2006Movie
Self
Jarhead: Background
2006Movie
Self
Jarhead
2005Movie
Alan Troy
Flightplan
2005Movie
Carson
The Skeleton Key
2005Movie
Luke Marshall
The Dying Gaul
2005Movie
Robert Sandrich
Kinsey
2004Movie
Clyde Martin
Garden State
2004Movie
Mark
Shattered Glass
2003Movie
Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Death of a Dynasty
2003Movie
Brendon III
Empire
2002Movie
Jack
Unconditional Love
2002Movie
Window Washer
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002Movie
Vadim Radtchinko
The Salton Sea
2002Movie
Jimmy the Finn
The Center of the World
2001Movie
Richard Longman
Housebound
2000Movie
Mignon
The Cell
2000Movie
Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
Boys Don't Cry
1999Movie
John Lotter
Desert Blue
1999Movie
Billy Baxter
Freak City
1999Movie
Cal Jackson
Another Day in Paradise
1998Movie
Ty
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998Movie
Raoul
Cracker
1997TV
Subway Stories
1997Movie
Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Dead Man Walking
1995Movie
Walter Delacroix
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Law & Order
1990TV
Josh Strand
This Week
1981TV
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Boogerman (uncredited)
Zero K
Movie
Road House 2
Movie
The Damning of a Country Merchant
Movie
Erosion
Movie
Christian Andersen