Peter Sarsgaard
Known for Acting · 92 credits
- Born
- 1971-03-07 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Belleville, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- John Peter Sarsgaard
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
TV Shows (23)
Law & Order
1990
as Josh Strand
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Conan
2010
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Killing
2011
as Ray Seward
DTF St. Louis
2026
as 'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce
Presumed Innocent
2024
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
as Self
This Week
1981
Dopesick
2021
as Rick Mountcastle
Interrogation
2020
as David Russell
The Slap
2015
as Hector
Cracker
1997
Homemade
2020
as Frank
Indie Sex
2007
as Self
Wormwood
2017
as Frank Olson
The Looming Tower
2018
as Martin Schmidt
America Divided
2016
as Self
Neuromancer
as John Ashpool
Movies (69)
The Batman
2022
as District Attorney Gil Colson
The Bride!
2026
as Jake Wiles
The Magnificent Seven
2016
as Bartholomew Bogue
Green Lantern
2011
as Hector Hammond
Knight and Day
2010
as Fitzgerald
The Guilty
2021
as Henry Fisher (voice)
Orphan
2009
as John
Lovelace
2013
as Chuck Traynor
Flightplan
2005
as Carson
Jarhead
2005
as Alan Troy
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Raoul
Black Mass
2015
as Brian Halloran
The Skeleton Key
2005
as Luke Marshall
Dead Man Walking
1995
as Walter Delacroix
The Cell
2000
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
Elegy
2008
as Kenneth Kepesh
Shattered Glass
2003
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Jackie
2016
as Robert Kennedy
Rendition
2007
as Alan Smith
An Education
2009
as David Goldman
Blue Jasmine
2013
as Dwight
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Vadim Radtchinko
Garden State
2004
as Mark
The Lost Daughter
2021
as Professor Hardy
The Survivor
2022
as Emory Anderson
Memory
2023
as Saul
In the Electric Mist
2009
as Elrod Sykes
The Lie
2018
as Jay Logan
Loving Pablo
2017
as Shepard
Pawn Sacrifice
2015
as Father Bill Lombardy
Subway Stories
1997
as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
Boys Don't Cry
1999
as John Lotter
Kinsey
2004
as Clyde Martin
Unconditional Love
2002
as Window Washer
Robot & Frank
2012
as Robot (voice)
Mr. Jones
2019
as Walter Duranty
Experimenter
2015
as Stanley Milgram
Empire
2002
as Jack
September 5
2024
as Roone Arledge
The Salton Sea
2002
as Jimmy the Finn
Night Moves
2014
as Harmon
Human Capital
2020
as Quint Manning
Very Good Girls
2013
as Fitzsimmons
Coup!
2024
as Floyd Monk
Pet Shop Days
2025
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008
as Cleveland Arning
The Center of the World
2001
as Richard Longman
High Falls
2007
as Pedro
Year of the Dog
2007
as Newt
Death of a Dynasty
2003
as Brendon III
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
as Alan Troy (archive footage)
The Sound of Silence
2019
as Peter Lucian
Desert Blue
1999
as Billy Baxter
Another Day in Paradise
1998
as Ty
The Dying Gaul
2005
as Robert Sandrich
Wormwood
2017
as Frank Olson
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
Valley Uprising
2014
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Ladygrey
2015
as Samuel
Housebound
2000
as Mignon
Road House 2
Zero K
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
2009
as Self
Freak City
1999
as Cal Jackson
Best Summer Ever
2020
as Camera Man
Indie Sex: Teens
2008
The Damning of a Country Merchant
"Jarhead" Diaries
as Self
Erosion
as Christian Andersen
About Peter Sarsgaard
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… With 92 credits spanning from 1975 to 2026, Peter Sarsgaard has appeared in 69 films and 23 TV shows.
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- The Bride! (2026) — as Jake Wiles
- The Magnificent Seven (2016) — as Bartholomew Bogue
- Green Lantern (2011) — as Hector Hammond
- Knight and Day (2010) — as Fitzgerald
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