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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.

The Bride!
as Jake Wiles

DTF St. Louis
as 'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce

Pet Shop Days

September 5
as Roone Arledge

Coup!
as Floyd Monk

Presumed Innocent
as Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto

Memory
as Saul

The Survivor
as Emory Anderson

The Batman
as District Attorney Gil Colson

The Lost Daughter
as Professor Hardy

Dopesick
as Rick Mountcastle

The Guilty
as Henry Fisher (voice)

Best Summer Ever
as Camera Man

Human Capital
as Quint Manning

Homemade
as Frank

Interrogation
as David Russell

Mr. Jones
as Walter Duranty

The Sound of Silence
as Peter Lucian

The Lie
as Jay Logan

The Looming Tower
as Martin Schmidt

Wormwood
as Frank Olson

Loving Pablo
as Shepard

Wormwood
as Frank Olson

Jackie
as Robert Kennedy

America Divided
as Self

The Magnificent Seven
as Bartholomew Bogue

Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self

Experimenter
as Stanley Milgram

Black Mass
as Brian Halloran

Pawn Sacrifice
as Father Bill Lombardy

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self

Ladygrey
as Samuel

The Slap
as Hector

Valley Uprising
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Night Moves
as Harmon

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self

Lovelace
as Chuck Traynor

Blue Jasmine
as Dwight

Very Good Girls
as Fitzsimmons

Robot & Frank
as Robot (voice)

Green Lantern
as Hector Hammond

The Killing
as Ray Seward

Conan
as Self

Knight and Day
as Fitzgerald

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Alan Troy (archive footage)

An Education
as David Goldman

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
as Self

Orphan
as John

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
as Self

In the Electric Mist
as Elrod Sykes

Elegy
as Kenneth Kepesh

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
as Cleveland Arning

Indie Sex: Teens

Rendition
as Alan Smith

Indie Sex
as Self

Year of the Dog
as Newt

High Falls
as Pedro
"Jarhead" Diaries
as Self
Jarhead: Background
as Self