Peter Sarsgaard
Acting
Born: March 7, 1971 (age 55) · Belleville, Illinois, USA
Highest Rated
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
The Batman
2022
Green Lantern
2011
The Magnificent Seven
2016
Orphan
2009
Knight and Day
2010
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
Blue Jasmine
2013
Black Mass
2015
Jarhead
2005
The Guilty
2021
Flightplan
2005
Jackie
2016
Photos (5)
Movies (61)
The Batman
District Attorney Gil Colson
The Magnificent Seven
Bartholomew Bogue
The Bride!
Jake Wiles
Green Lantern
Hector Hammond
Orphan
John
Jarhead
Alan Troy
The Man in the Iron Mask
Raoul
Knight and Day
Fitzgerald
The Cell
Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
The Skeleton Key
Luke Marshall
Black Mass
Brian Halloran
The Guilty
Henry Fisher (voice)
K-19: The Widowmaker
Vadim Radtchinko
Flightplan
Carson
Lovelace
Chuck Traynor
Rendition
Alan Smith
Loving Pablo
Shepard
The Survivor
Emory Anderson
Dead Man Walking
Walter Delacroix
Blue Jasmine
Dwight
The Lost Daughter
Professor Hardy
Mr. Jones
Walter Duranty
Jackie
Robert Kennedy
September 5
Roone Arledge
Boys Don't Cry
John Lotter
Kinsey
Clyde Martin
Shattered Glass
Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Pawn Sacrifice
Father Bill Lombardy
Garden State
Mark
In the Electric Mist
Elrod Sykes
Robot & Frank
Robot (voice)
Night Moves
Harmon
Memory
Saul
An Education
David Goldman
The Salton Sea
Jimmy the Finn
The Lie
Jay Logan
Experimenter
Stanley Milgram
Human Capital
Quint Manning
Empire
Jack
Elegy
Kenneth Kepesh
Very Good Girls
Fitzsimmons
The Center of the World
Richard Longman
Another Day in Paradise
Ty
The Dying Gaul
Robert Sandrich
Pet Shop Days
2025
Unconditional Love
Window Washer
Desert Blue
Billy Baxter
Indie Sex: Teens
2008
Coup!
Floyd Monk
The Sound of Silence
Peter Lucian
Death of a Dynasty
Brendon III
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Cleveland Arning
Subway Stories
Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
Ladygrey
Samuel
Year of the Dog
Newt
Best Summer Ever
Camera Man
Wormwood
Frank Olson
Freak City
Cal Jackson
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Alan Troy (archive footage)
Housebound
Mignon
High Falls
Pedro
TV Shows (12)
Law & Order
Josh Strand · 1 eps
Presumed Innocent
Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto · 8 eps
The Killing
Ray Seward · 12 eps
DTF St. Louis
'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce · 4 eps
Dopesick
Rick Mountcastle · 8 eps
This Week
1 eps
Interrogation
David Russell · 10 eps
Cracker
1 eps
The Slap
Hector · 8 eps
The Looming Tower
Martin Schmidt · 10 eps
Homemade
Frank · 1 eps
Wormwood
Frank Olson · 6 eps
Self / Appearances (16)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 2 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 eps
Conan
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Self · 1 eps
Indie Sex
Self · 3 eps
America Divided
Self · 8 eps
"Jarhead" Diaries
Self
Valley Uprising
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jarhead: Background
Self
Starring Austin Pendleton
Self
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
Self
