Peter Sarsgaard

ActorProducer Mar 7 (age 55) Belleville, Illinois, USA 1975–2026 (51 year career)

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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

Film

The Batman

District Attorney Gil Colson

Film

Orphan

John

Film

Blue Jasmine

Dwight

Film

The Magnificent Seven

Bartholomew Bogue

Film

The Man in the Iron Mask

Raoul

Film

Garden State

Mark

Film

Boys Don't Cry

John Lotter

Film

Jarhead

Alan Troy

Filmography

Acting (90)

Movies (68)

The Bride!

as Jake Wiles

Pet Shop Days

September 5

as Roone Arledge

Coup!

as Floyd Monk

Memory

as Saul

The Batman

as District Attorney Gil Colson

The Survivor

as Emory Anderson

The Lost Daughter

as Professor Hardy

The Guilty

as Henry Fisher (voice)

Human Capital

as Quint Manning

Best Summer Ever

as Camera Man

Mr. Jones

as Walter Duranty

The Sound of Silence

as Peter Lucian

The Lie

as Jay Logan

Loving Pablo

as Shepard

Wormwood

as Frank Olson

The Magnificent Seven

as Bartholomew Bogue

Jackie

as Robert Kennedy

Starring Austin Pendleton

as Self

Black Mass

as Brian Halloran

Pawn Sacrifice

as Father Bill Lombardy

Experimenter

as Stanley Milgram

Ladygrey

as Samuel

Valley Uprising

as Narrator (Voice)

Night Moves

as Harmon

Lovelace

as Chuck Traynor

Blue Jasmine

as Dwight

Very Good Girls

as Fitzsimmons

Robot & Frank

as Robot (voice)

Green Lantern

as Hector Hammond

Knight and Day

as Fitzgerald

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2010

as Alan Troy (archive footage)

Orphan

as John

In the Electric Mist

as Elrod Sykes

An Education

as David Goldman

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children

2009

as Self

Elegy

2008

as Kenneth Kepesh

6.3

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

as Cleveland Arning

Indie Sex: Teens

Rendition

as Alan Smith

High Falls

as Pedro

Year of the Dog

as Newt

Jarhead

as Alan Troy

The Skeleton Key

as Luke Marshall

Flightplan

as Carson

The Dying Gaul

as Robert Sandrich

Garden State

as Mark

Kinsey

as Clyde Martin

Shattered Glass

as Charles 'Chuck' Lane

Death of a Dynasty

as Brendon III

K-19: The Widowmaker

as Vadim Radtchinko

Unconditional Love

as Window Washer

The Salton Sea

as Jimmy the Finn

Empire

as Jack

The Center of the World

2001

as Richard Longman

5.0

The Cell

2000

as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)

Housebound

as Mignon

Boys Don't Cry

as John Lotter

Freak City

as Cal Jackson

Desert Blue

as Billy Baxter

The Man in the Iron Mask

1998

as Raoul

6.6

Another Day in Paradise

1998

as Ty

6.2

Subway Stories

1997

as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")

5.5

Dead Man Walking

1995

as Walter Delacroix

7.3

The Damning of a Country Merchant

Road House 2

Zero K

The Statement

Television (22)

Presumed Innocent

2024

as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto

Dopesick

as Rick Mountcastle

Interrogation

as David Russell

Homemade

as Frank

The Looming Tower

as Martin Schmidt

Wormwood

as Frank Olson

America Divided

as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

The Slap

as Hector

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

The Killing

as Ray Seward

Conan

as Self

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

as Self

Indie Sex

as Self

Cracker

The Daily Show

as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Law & Order

as Josh Strand

This Week

Saturday Night Live

as Boogerman

Neuromancer

as John Ashpool

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Coup!

Executive Producer

Best Summer Ever

Executive Producer

Lovelace

Executive Producer