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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.
Filmography 60
The Batman
+2
as District Attorney Gil Colson 
Presumed Innocent
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto 
Black Mass
+2
as Brian Halloran 
Knight and Day
+1
as Fitzgerald 
The Magnificent Seven
+5
as Bartholomew Bogue 
The Bride!
+3
as Jake Wiles 
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice) 
Memory
+3
as Saul 
The Cell
+1
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) 
Green Lantern
+4
as Hector Hammond 
Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty 
Dopesick
as Rick Mountcastle 
Jackie
+1
as Robert Kennedy 
Orphan
+10
as John 
Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons 
Lovelace
+5
as Chuck Traynor 
The Slap
as Hector 
Interrogation
as David Russell 
The Skeleton Key
+2
as Luke Marshall 
The Man in the Iron Mask
+5
as Raoul 
Loving Pablo
+9
as Shepard 
The Survivor
+2
as Emory Anderson 
September 5
+5
as Roone Arledge 
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy 
K-19: The Widowmaker
+5
as Vadim Radtchinko 
Pawn Sacrifice
+3
as Father Bill Lombardy 
The Looming Tower
as Martin Schmidt 
Experimenter
+2
as Stanley Milgram 
Boys Don't Cry
+1
as John Lotter 
Garden State
+1
as Mark 
An Education
+4
as David Goldman 
Rendition
as Alan Smith 
Shattered Glass
+5
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane 
Blue Jasmine
+4
as Dwight 
Flightplan
+2
as Carson 
Jarhead
+1
as Alan Troy 
Unconditional Love
as Window Washer 
Robot & Frank
+2
as Robot (voice) 
In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes 
The Salton Sea
+3
as Jimmy the Finn 
Wormwood
as Frank Olson 
Human Capital
+4
as Quint Manning 
Kinsey
+2
as Clyde Martin 
Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh 
The Sound of Silence
+2
as Peter Lucian 
The Lie
as Jay Logan 
Night Moves
as Harmon 
Desert Blue
+1
as Billy Baxter 
Year of the Dog
+2
as Newt 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning 
The Center of the World
as Richard Longman 
Valley Uprising
+1
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Coup!
as Floyd Monk 
Empire
as Jack 
The Dying Gaul
as Robert Sandrich 
Best Summer Ever
+2
as Camera Man 
Ladygrey
as Samuel