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Peter Sarsgaard

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Peter Sarsgaard
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 the Riddler.
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Boyish-looking Peter Sarsgaard was born on March 7, 1971, at Scott Air Force Base, in Bellville, Illinois, to Judy Lea (Reinhardt) and John Dale Sarsgaard, an engineer who worked for the Air Force and later Monsanto and IBM. He is a graduate of St. Louis' Washington University, where he majored in history and literature.

Initially trained with the Actors' Studio in New York, Peter began in comedy and became a co-founder of the comedy improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast. Such off-Broadway productions included Horton Foote's "Laura Dennis" and John Cameron Mitchell's "Kingdom of Earth."

He made his screen debut in Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking (1995) and was given more sizable roles in Desert Blue (1998) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), as the ill-fated son of the Musketeer Athos, played by John Malkovich. Peter then started gracing the art-house circuit, making a violent, searing impression as a homophobic killer in Boys Don't Cry (1999) starring two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank as a trans-gendered teen.

Other impressionable offbeat roles for Peter that have thrilled critics from coast to coast include Shattered Glass (2003), which earned him a slew of awards including the prestigious National Society of Film Critics Award. Prior to that, he showed off his versatility with portrayals ranging from a Russian nuclear reactor officer in K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) to a drug addict in The Salton Sea (2002). Other heralded performances include Garden State (2004) and, notably, Kinsey (2004).

On TV, Peter appeared in recurring/regular roles in several critically applauded series and mini-series including The Killing (2011), The Slap (2015), Wormwood (2017) (as ill-fated Army scientist Frank Olson), The Looming Tower (2018) and Running Naked in the Universe (2019). More recent films include Knight and Day (2010), the villain in the DC Comics entry Green Lantern (2011), the Woody Allen drama Blue Jasmine (2013), Experimenter (2015), Jackie (2016) (as Bobby Kennedy), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Loving Pablo (2017), The Sound of Silence (2019) and Human Capital (2019).

In 2009, Sarsgaard married actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and have two children. He co-starred in the movie she wrote and directed -- The Lost Daughter (2021) starring Olivia Colman.
BornMarch 7, 1971
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy

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Peter Sarsgaard in Dopesick (2021)
Peter Sarsgaard in Dopesick (2021)
Peter Sarsgaard and John Hoogenakker in Dopesick (2021)
Peter Sarsgaard and Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter (2021)
Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard in The Lie (2018)
Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King in The Lie (2018)
Johnny Depp and Peter Sarsgaard in Black Mass (2015)
Peter Sarsgaard in Wormwood (2017)
Peter Sarsgaard in Wormwood (2017)
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Yann Bean in Jackie (2016)
Peter Sarsgaard in Loving Pablo (2017)
Peter Sarsgaard in The Looming Tower (2018)

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Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass (2003)
Shattered Glass
7.2
  • Charles 'Chuck' Lane
  • 2003
Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, and Peter Sarsgaard in Garden State (2004)
Garden State
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  • Mark
  • 2004
Liam Neeson in Kinsey (2004)
Kinsey
7.1
  • Clyde Martin
  • 2004
Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ryan Reynolds, and Mark Strong in Green Lantern (2011)
Green Lantern
5.5
  • Hector Hammond
  • 2011

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  • Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, Robert Pattinson, and Zoë Kravitz in The Batman (2022)
    The Batman
  • Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Hoogenakker, Will Poulter, and Kaitlyn Dever in Dopesick (2021)
    Dopesick
  • Barry Levinson and Ben Foster in The Survivor (2021)
    The Survivor
  • Jake Gyllenhaal in The Guilty (2021)
    The Guilty
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  • Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter (2021)
    The Lost Daughter
  • Best Summer Ever (2020)
    Best Summer Ever
  • Homemade (2020)
    Homemade
  • Interrogation (2020)
    Interrogation
  • Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke, and Alex Wolff in Human Capital (2019)
    Human Capital
  • Peter Sarsgaard, James Norton, and Vanessa Kirby in Mr. Jones (2019)
    Mr. Jones
  • Peter Sarsgaard in The Sound of Silence (2019)
    The Sound of Silence
  • Joey King in The Lie (2018)
    The Lie
  • The Looming Tower (2018)
    The Looming Tower
  • Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in Loving Pablo (2017)
    Loving Pablo
  • Wormwood (2017)
    Wormwood

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  • Best Summer Ever (2020)
    Best Summer Ever
  • Amanda Seyfried in Lovelace (2013)
    Lovelace

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    • March 7, 1971
    • Belleville, Illinois, USA
    • Maggie GyllenhaalMay 2, 2009 - present (2 children)
  • Played "Trigorin" in "The Seagull", a play by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Christopher Hampton (Walter Kerr Theater, New York City, New York, USA).
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    Brother-in-law of Jake Gyllenhaal.
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    "I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them." - On his wide range of offbeat parts.
    • Often takes supporting roles instead of headlining a picture, whereby his character is friend to the main character in the film (Kinsey (2004), Shattered Glass (2003), Garden State (2004), Jarhead (2005)).
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