
Peter Sarsgaard
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.117 |
Birthday | 1971-03-07 |
Place of Birth | Belleville, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | John Peter Sarsgaard, 피터 사스가드, پیتر سارسگارد, پيتر سارسگارد, |

2005

Jarhead
6.7/2918
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit a...
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1999

Boys Don't Cry
7.4/1345
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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2004

Garden State
7.1/1866
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to...
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2023

Pet Shop Days
0/0
In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in...
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2008

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
4/46
Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores lov...
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2004

Kinsey
6.6/469
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...
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2009

Orphan
6.993/5290
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
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2007

Rendition
6.421/674
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u...
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2002

The Salton Sea
6.6/322
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...
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2009

An Education
6.9/1314
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When...
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2008

Elegy
6.3/284
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Casti...
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2002

K-19: The Widowmaker
6.5/1041
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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2001

The Center of the World
4.945/73
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1998

The Man in the Iron Mask
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2005

Flightplan
6.5/2650
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...
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2002

Empire
6/104
Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St....
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2005

The Skeleton Key
6.6/2094
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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2003

Shattered Glass
7/425
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff wr...
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2007

Year of the Dog
5.4/67
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
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2005

The Dying Gaul
6.1/36
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
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2009

In the Electric Mist
6.1/422
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Bal...
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1999

Desert Blue
5.6/36
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an...
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2010

Knight and Day
6.224/4524
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting al...
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2011

Green Lantern
5.172/7273
For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a...
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2002

Unconditional Love
6/53
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...
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The Damning of a Country Merchant
0/0
The life of the patriarch of a rural merchant family in 1910 Indiana is suddenly disrupted by a charismatic industrialist who has engaged in a secret...
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2009

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
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2013

Very Good Girls
5.8/433
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2012

Robot & Frank
6.919/1084
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian....
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2013

Lovelace
6.02/698
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
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2014

Night Moves
5.8/336
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric d...
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2025

The Bride!
0/0
In the 1930s, a lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a...
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2013

Blue Jasmine
7/3455
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger...
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1999

Freak City
5/1
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in...
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2023

Memory
7.184/152
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...
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2015

Pawn Sacrifice
6.7/960
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
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2003

Death of a Dynasty
6.3/5
A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-...
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2000

Housebound
4.8/4
A woman with a tragic past rents her bungalow to a man who loves cooking, but according to her distorted mind he uses his knives more than he should.
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2015

Experimenter
6.5/457
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2015

Black Mass
6.5/3372
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2015

Ladygrey
4.8/10
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
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1995

Dead Man Walking
7.3/1360
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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2024

Coup!
6.2/19
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2014

Valley Uprising
7.7/90
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2016

Jackie
6.456/2309
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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2016

The Magnificent Seven
6.5/5989
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...
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2000

The Cell
6.269/1550
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
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1998

Another Day in Paradise
6.3/136
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and...
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2007

High Falls
0/0
During a weekend at a country home, a man and his pregnant wife tell their secrets to their best friend, jeopardizing their relationship.
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2024

September 5
6.941/144
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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2017

Loving Pablo
6.3/997
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous jour...
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2010

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
3.8/4
A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.
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2017

Wormwood
6.94/50
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
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2019

Mr. Jones
6.77/411
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the S...
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2016

Starring Austin Pendleton
6.7/3
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2018

The Lie
6.344/726
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend...
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2019

The Sound of Silence
5.7/35
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem...
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2020

Human Capital
5.7/105
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change thei...
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2022

The Survivor
6.879/170
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use hig...
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2022

The Batman
7.7/10646
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as...
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1997

Subway Stories
6/13
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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2020

Best Summer Ever
7/6
A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp.
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2021

The Lost Daughter
6.498/986
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
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The Lost Daughter

2021

The Guilty
6.425/2728
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
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