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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
+9
as District Attorney Gil Colson 
Presumed Innocent
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto 
The Bride!
+5
as Jake Wiles 
Green Lantern
+7
as Hector Hammond 
The Magnificent Seven
+8
as Bartholomew Bogue 
Knight and Day
+6
as Fitzgerald 
Black Mass
+3
as Brian Halloran 
Orphan
+7
as John 
Dopesick
as Rick Mountcastle 
The Skeleton Key
+6
as Luke Marshall 
The Man in the Iron Mask
+6
as Raoul 
The Slap
+2
as Hector 
The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice) 
Interrogation
as David Russell 
Loving Pablo
+3
as Shepard 
The Survivor
+4
as Emory Anderson 
Jarhead
+4
as Alan Troy 
September 5
+14
as Roone Arledge 
The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy 
The Cell
+4
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited) 
Pawn Sacrifice
+9
as Father Bill Lombardy 
The Looming Tower
+2
as Martin Schmidt 
Boys Don't Cry
as John Lotter 
Garden State
+3
as Mark 
An Education
+3
as David Goldman 
Flightplan
+2
as Carson 
K-19: The Widowmaker
+24
as Vadim Radtchinko 
Shattered Glass
+9
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane 
Blue Jasmine
+5
as Dwight 
Mr. Jones
+12
as Walter Duranty 
Lovelace
+8
as Chuck Traynor 
Robot & Frank
+7
as Robot (voice) 
In the Electric Mist
+4
as Elrod Sykes 
Jackie
+2
as Robert Kennedy 
The Salton Sea
+7
as Jimmy the Finn 
Rendition
+2
as Alan Smith 
Wormwood
as Frank Olson 
Human Capital
+6
as Quint Manning 
Memory
+7
as Saul 
Kinsey
+3
as Clyde Martin 
The Sound of Silence
+7
as Peter Lucian 
The Lie
+1
as Jay Logan 
Night Moves
+21
as Harmon 
Unconditional Love
+2
as Window Washer 
Elegy
+7
as Kenneth Kepesh 
Very Good Girls
+2
as Fitzsimmons 
Experimenter
+14
as Stanley Milgram 
Year of the Dog
+5
as Newt 
Desert Blue
+10
as Billy Baxter 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
+6
as Cleveland Arning 
The Center of the World
+3
as Richard Longman 
Valley Uprising
+5
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Empire
+5
as Jack 
Coup!
+3
as Floyd Monk 
The Dying Gaul
+5
as Robert Sandrich 
Ladygrey
as Samuel 
Best Summer Ever
+10
as Camera Man