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Peter Sarsgaard
Known for: ActingJohn 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.
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The Batman
as District Attorney Gil Colson 
Presumed Innocent
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto 
The Bride!
as Jake Wiles 
Green Lantern
as Hector Hammond 
Knight and Day
as Fitzgerald 
The Magnificent Seven
as Bartholomew Bogue 
Black Mass
as Brian Halloran 
Orphan
as John 
Dopesick
as Rick Mountcastle 
The Skeleton Key
as Luke Marshall 
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Raoul 
The Slap
as Hector 
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice) 
Interrogation
as David Russell 
Loving Pablo
as Shepard 
The Survivor
as Emory Anderson 
Jarhead
as Alan Troy 
September 5
as Roone Arledge 
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy 
The Cell
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) 
Pawn Sacrifice
as Father Bill Lombardy 
The Looming Tower
as Martin Schmidt 
Boys Don't Cry
as John Lotter 
Garden State
as Mark 
An Education
as David Goldman 
Flightplan
as Carson 
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Vadim Radtchinko 
Shattered Glass
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane 
Blue Jasmine
as Dwight 
Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty 
Lovelace
as Chuck Traynor 
Robot & Frank
as Robot (voice) 
In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes 
Jackie
as Robert Kennedy 
The Salton Sea
as Jimmy the Finn 
Wormwood
as Frank Olson 
Rendition
as Alan Smith 
Human Capital
as Quint Manning 
Memory
as Saul 
Kinsey
as Clyde Martin 
The Sound of Silence
as Peter Lucian 
The Lie
as Jay Logan 
Night Moves
as Harmon 
Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh 
Unconditional Love
as Window Washer 
Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons 
Experimenter
as Stanley Milgram 
Year of the Dog
as Newt 
Desert Blue
as Billy Baxter 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning 
The Center of the World
as Richard Longman 
Valley Uprising
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Empire
as Jack 
Another Day in Paradise
as Ty 
Coup!
as Floyd Monk 
The Dying Gaul
as Robert Sandrich 
Best Summer Ever
as Camera Man 
Ladygrey
as Samuel