Peter Sarsgaard
Acteur·rice
7 mars 1971 · 55 years old
Belleville, Illinois, USA
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 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.
Known for
As an actor
The Damning of a Country Merchant
Zero K
Road House 2
Erosion
Christian Andersen
Neuromancer
John Ashpool
The Bride!
2026 · Jake Wiles
DTF St. Louis
2026 · 'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce
Pet Shop Days
2025
Coup!
2024 · Floyd Monk
September 5
2024 · Roone Arledge
Presumed Innocent
2024 · Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
Memory
2023 · Saul
The Survivor
2022 · Emory Anderson
The Batman
2022 · District Attorney Gil Colson
The Lost Daughter
2021 · Professor Hardy
The Guilty
2021 · Henry Fisher (voice)
Dopesick
2021 · Rick Mountcastle
Human Capital
2020 · Quint Manning
Best Summer Ever
2020 · Camera Man
Interrogation
2020 · David Russell
Homemade
2020 · Frank
Mr. Jones
2019 · Walter Duranty
The Sound of Silence
2019 · Peter Lucian
The Lie
2018 · Jay Logan
The Looming Tower
2018 · Martin Schmidt
Loving Pablo
2017 · Shepard
Wormwood
2017 · Frank Olson
Wormwood
2017 · Frank Olson
Jackie
2016 · Robert Kennedy
The Magnificent Seven
2016 · Bartholomew Bogue
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016 · Self
America Divided
2016 · Self
Pawn Sacrifice
2015 · Father Bill Lombardy
Experimenter
2015 · Stanley Milgram
Black Mass
2015 · Brian Halloran
Ladygrey
2015 · Samuel
The Slap
2015 · Hector
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Night Moves
2014 · Harmon
Valley Uprising
2014 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
Very Good Girls
2013 · Fitzsimmons
Lovelace
2013 · Chuck Traynor
Blue Jasmine
2013 · Dwight
Robot & Frank
2012 · Robot (voice)
Green Lantern
2011 · Hector Hammond
The Killing
2011 · Ray Seward
Knight and Day
2010 · Fitzgerald
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010 · Alan Troy (archive footage)
Conan
2010 · Self
Orphan
2009 · John
An Education
2009 · David Goldman
In the Electric Mist
2009 · Elrod Sykes
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
2009 · Self
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009 · Self
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008 · Cleveland Arning
Elegy
2008 · Kenneth Kepesh
Indie Sex: Teens
2008
Rendition
2007 · Alan Smith
Year of the Dog
2007 · Newt
High Falls
2007 · Pedro
Indie Sex
2007 · Self
"Jarhead" Diaries
2006 · Self
Jarhead: Background
2006 · Self
Jarhead
2005 · Alan Troy
Flightplan
2005 · Carson
The Skeleton Key
2005 · Luke Marshall
The Dying Gaul
2005 · Robert Sandrich
Garden State
2004 · Mark
Kinsey
2004 · Clyde Martin
Shattered Glass
2003 · Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Death of a Dynasty
2003 · Brendon III
The Salton Sea
2002 · Jimmy the Finn
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Vadim Radtchinko
Empire
2002 · Jack
Unconditional Love
2002 · Window Washer
The Center of the World
2001 · Richard Longman
Housebound
2000 · Mignon
The Cell
2000 · Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
Boys Don't Cry
1999 · John Lotter
Desert Blue
1999 · Billy Baxter
Freak City
1999 · Cal Jackson
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Raoul
Another Day in Paradise
1998 · Ty
Subway Stories
1997 · Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
Cracker
1997
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Dead Man Walking
1995 · Walter Delacroix
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Law & Order
1990 · Josh Strand
This Week
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)