Actor
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 C ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Bride! |
2024 -- September 5 | Roone Arledge
2024 -- Coup! | Floyd Monk
2023 -- Memory | Saul
2023 -- Pet Shop Days |
2022 -- Vengeance in the Making | Self
2022 -- The Survivor | Emory Anderson
2022 -- The Batman | District Attorney Gil Colson
2021 -- The Lost Daughter | Professor Hardy
2021 -- The Guilty | Henry Fisher (voice)
2020 -- Best Summer Ever | Camera Man
2020 -- Human Capital | Quint Manning
2019 -- Mr. Jones | Walter Duranty
2019 -- The Sound of Silence | Peter Lucian
2018 -- The Lie | Jay Logan
2017 -- Wormwood | Frank Olson
2017 -- Loving Pablo | Shepard
2016 -- Jackie | Robert Kennedy
2016 -- The Magnificent Seven | Bartholomew Bogue
2016 -- Starring Austin Pendleton | Self
2015 -- Experimenter | Stanley Milgram
2015 -- Black Mass | Brian Halloran
2015 -- Pawn Sacrifice | Father Bill Lombardy
2015 -- Ladygrey | Samuel
2014 -- Valley Uprising | Narrator (Voice)
2014 -- Night Moves | Harmon
2013 -- Lovelace | Chuck Traynor
2013 -- Blue Jasmine | Dwight
2013 -- Very Good Girls | Fitzsimmons
2012 -- Robot & Frank | Robot (voice)
2011 -- Green Lantern | Hector Hammond
2010 -- Knight and Day | Fitzgerald
2010 -- Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Alan Troy (archive footage)
2009 -- An Education | David Goldman
2009 -- Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children | Self
2009 -- Orphan | John
2009 -- In the Electric Mist | Elrod Sykes
2008 -- Elegy | Kenneth Kepesh
2008 -- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Cleveland Arning
2007 -- Rendition | Alan Smith
2007 -- Year of the Dog | Newt
2007 -- High Falls | Pedro
2005 -- Jarhead | Alan Troy
2005 -- Flightplan | Carson
2005 -- The Skeleton Key | Luke Marshall
2005 -- The Dying Gaul | Robert Sandrich
2004 -- Kinsey | Clyde Martin
2004 -- Garden State | Mark
2003 -- Shattered Glass | Charles 'Chuck' Lane
2003 -- Death of a Dynasty | Brendon III
2002 -- Empire | Jack
2002 -- Unconditional Love | Window Washer
2002 -- K-19: The Widowmaker | Vadim Radtchinko
2002 -- The Salton Sea | Jimmy the Finn
2001 -- The Center of the World | Richard Longman
2000 -- Housebound | Mignon
2000 -- The Cell | Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
1999 -- Boys Don't Cry | John Lotter
1999 -- Desert Blue | Billy Baxter
1999 -- Freak City | Cal Jackson
1998 -- Another Day in Paradise | Ty
1998 -- The Man in the Iron Mask | Raoul
1997 -- Subway Stories | Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
1995 -- Dead Man Walking | Walter Delacroix
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