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      Peter Sarsgaard

      Peter Sarsgaard

      Highest Rated: 94% The Lost Daughter (2021)

      Lowest Rated: 12% The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)

      Birthday: Mar 7, 1971

      Birthplace: Belleville, Illinois, USA

      An atypical actor who easily adapted himself in a variety of film and television projects, Peter Sarsgaard built a career disappearing into challenging and sometimes outright difficult roles most other actors might have avoided. Prior to his breakthrough playing a charming, but ultimately violent rapist and murderer in the indie drama "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), he quietly earned an impressive reputation on the New York theater scene, acting onstage in productions that including the Signature Theatre's "Laura Dennis" and his own play "The Greatest And Most Exciting Gratuitous Exhibition Ever Exploited." Sarsgaard made his biggest impression, however, with a subtle performance as a news magazine editor in "Shattered Glass" (2003), which gave the young, talented actor his first true taste of critical success. From there, he easily alternated between studio features like "Flightplan" (2005), "Jarhead" (2005) and "Knight & Day (2010), as well as independents like "Year of the Dog" (2007) and the Oscar-nominated "An Education" (2009). His 2009 marriage to equally indie-respected Maggie Gyllenhaal cemented Sarsgaard's reputation as an intelligent, devoted actor pursuing art over fame.

      Highest rated movies

      94% The Lost Daughter
      93% An Education
      92% Shattered Glass
      90% Blue Jasmine
      90% Kinsey
      90% Boys Don't Cry 88% Jackie
      87% Coup!

      Photos

      Peter Sarsgaard FLIGHTPLAN, Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, 2005, (c) Touchstone The Slap, Peter Sarsgaard, 'Hector', Season 1, Ep. #1, 02/12/2015, ©NBC AN EDUCATION, from left: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, 2009. Ph: Kerry Brown/©Sony Pictures Classics SALTON SEA, Peter Sarsgaard, Val kilmer, 2002 (c) Warner Brothers SHATTERED GLASS, Hayden Christensen, 2003, (c) Lions Gate IN THE ELECTRIC MIST, Peter Sarsgaard, 2009. ©Image Entertainment GARDEN STATE, Peter Sarsgaard, 2004, (c) Fox Searchlight THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, director Wayne Wang, Peter Sarsgaard, on set, 2001. ©Artisan Entertainment The Slap, Peter Sarsgaard, 'Hector', Season 1, Ep. #1, 02/12/2015, ©NBC THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, Molly Parker, Peter Sarsgaard, 2001. (c) Artisan Entertainment. BOYS DON'T CRY, Peter Sarsgaard, Allison Folland, Hilary Swank, Brendan Sexton III, Alicia Goranson, Chloe Sevigny, 1999 GARDEN STATE, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, 2004, (c) Fox Searchlight FLIGHTPLAN, Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, 2005, (c) Touchstone THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, from left: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, 2008. Ph: Bruce Birmelin/©Peace Arch Entertainment Group FLIGHTPLAN, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard, 2005, (c) Touchstone FLIGHTPLAN, Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard, 2005, (c) Touchstone FLIGHTPLAN, Peter Sarsgaard, 2005, (c) Touchstone K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER, (l to r): Gerrit Vooren, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Christian Camargo, Peter Sarsgaard, James Ginty, Ravil Isyanov, George Anton, Kristen Holden-Ried, 2002 (c) Paramount, AN EDUCATION, from left: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, 2009. Ph: Kerry Brown/©Sony Pictures Classics

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      85% 72% Memory Saul (Character) $378.7K 2023
      25% No Score Yet Pet Shop Days Unknown (Character) - 2023
      87% No Score Yet Coup! Unknown (Character) - 2023
      85% 87% The Batman District Attorney Gil Colson (Character) $369.3M 2022
      86% 78% The Survivor Unknown (Character) - 2021
      94% 56% The Lost Daughter Profesor Hardy (Character) - 2021
      74% 50% The Guilty Henry Fisher (Voice) - 2021
      89% 94% Best Summer Ever Executive Producer - 2020
      86% No Score Yet Mr. Jones Walter Duranty (Character) - 2019
      65% 88% Human Capital Quint Manning (Character) $4.3K 2019
      64% No Score Yet The Sound of Silence Peter Lucian (Character) $17.0K 2019
      45% 33% The Lie Jay (Character) - 2018
      32% 56% Loving Pablo Shepard (Character) $16.6K 2017
      88% 60% Jackie Bobby Kennedy (Character) $14.0M 2016
      64% 71% The Magnificent Seven Bartholomew Bogue (Character) $93.4M 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Ladygrey Samuel (Character) - 2015
      85% 61% Experimenter Stanley Milgram (Character) $155.1K 2015
      73% 68% Black Mass Brian Halloran (Character) $62.6M 2015
      72% 66% Pawn Sacrifice William Lombardy (Character) $2.4M 2014
      No Score Yet 90% Valley Uprising Narrator - 2014
      20% 33% Very Good Girls Joe Fitzsimmons (Character) - 2013
      86% 42% Night Moves Harmon (Character) $252.9K 2013
      53% 36% Lovelace Chuck Traynor (Character),
      Executive Producer
      $354.8K 2013
      90% 77% Blue Jasmine Dwight (Character) $33.4M 2013
      86% 75% Robot & Frank Robot (Voice) $3.3M 2012
      25% 45% Green Lantern Hector Hammond (Character) $116.6M 2011
      52% 49% Knight and Day Fitzgerald (Character) $76.4M 2010
      93% 80% An Education David (Character) $12.6M 2009
      59% 63% Orphan John (Character) $41.6M 2009
      54% 34% In the Electric Mist Elrod Sykes (Character) - 2009
      12% 23% The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Cleveland Arning (Character) $80.3K 2008
      75% 61% Elegy Kenneth Kepesh (Character) $3.6M 2008
      48% 62% Rendition Alan Smith (Character) $9.7M 2007
      70% 43% Year of the Dog Newt (Character) $1.5M 2007
      51% 52% The Dying Gaul Robert (Character) $342.3K 2005
      60% 68% Jarhead Alan Troy (Character) $62.6M 2005
      37% 48% Flightplan Carson (Character) $89.7M 2005
      37% 58% The Skeleton Key Luke (Character) $47.8M 2005
      86% 88% Garden State Mark (Character) $26.8M 2004
      90% 75% Kinsey Clyde Martin (Character) $10.2M 2004
      92% 79% Shattered Glass Chuck Lane (Character) $2.2M 2003
      14% 68% Unconditional Love Window Washer (Character) - 2002
      21% 62% Empire Jack Wimmer (Character) $17.5M 2002
      60% 52% K-19: The Widowmaker Reactor Officer Vadim Radtchenko (Character) $35.2M 2002
      63% 82% The Salton Sea Jimmy the Finn (Character) $676.7K 2002
      34% 40% The Center of the World Richard Longman (Character) $1.1M 2001
      No Score Yet 8% Housebound Tom (Character) - 2000
      No Score Yet 74% Freak City Cal Jackson (Character) - 1999
      90% 87% Boys Don't Cry John Lotter (Character) $11.5M 1999
      57% 62% Another Day in Paradise Ty (Character) $1.0M 1999
      32% 55% The Man in the Iron Mask Raoul (Character) $57.0M 1998

      TV

      Credit
      77% 86% Presumed Innocent Tommy Molto (Character) 2024
      No Score Yet 9% The View Guest 2023
      No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2023
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2021
      89% 94% Dopesick Rick Mountcastle (Character) 2021
      No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2015 2021
      No Score Yet 47% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2020
      57% 88% Interrogation David Russell (Character) 2020
      88% 68% The Looming Tower Martin Schmidt (Character) 2018
      90% 64% Wormwood Frank Olson (Character) 2017
      No Score Yet No Score Yet America Divided Correspondent 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Slap Hector (Character) 2015
      68% 87% The Killing Ray Seward (Character) 2013
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2011 2013
      No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Unknown (Guest Star),
      Host
      2006 2010
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2009
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Conan O'Brien Guest 2008
      60% No Score Yet Cracker Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
      No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1995