Peter Sarsgaard

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Peter Sarsgaard (2019)

John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971 at Scott Air Force Base , Illinois ) is an American film and stage actor .

Life

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Training and first film roles

Peter Sarsgaard was born in 1971 on an air force base in the American Midwest . He attended Bard College in Dutchess County , New York and then studied history and literature at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri .

During his studies, Peter Sarsgaard first came into contact with acting as a co-founder of the comedic improvisation group Mama's Pot Roast . After graduation, he went to New York , where he took acting classes at the Actors Studio . During this time he joined Douglas Carter Bene's New York theater company The Drama Department , with which he a. a. John Cameron Mitchell's Kingdom of Earth , with Cynthia Nixon in the lead role. Also off-Broadway, Sarsgaard appeared in Horton Foote's play Laura Dennis .

His screen debut followed in 1995 when he played the small role of Walter Delacroix in Tim Robbins' drama Dead Man Walking , who is shot in the opening scene with his girlfriend by leading actor Sean Penn . This was followed by larger roles, u. a. 1998 in Desert Blue and The Man in the Iron Mask , in which he played the son of musketeer John Malkovich .

Sarsgaard first gained international attention in 1999 when he played the part of anti-social homophobic killer John Lotter in Kimberly Peirce's independent film Boys Don't Cry , in which he can be seen alongside Hilary Swank . This was followed by roles as a Russian nuclear scientist in Kathryn Bigelow's thriller K-19 - Showdown in the Deep and as a drug addict Jimmy the Finn in the crime thriller The Salton Sea .

Breakthrough in the film business

Sarsgaard had his final breakthrough in the film business in 2003 with Billy Ray's drama Shattered Glass . He has received critical acclaim and numerous film awards, including the National Society of Film Critics ' award for Best Supporting Actor of the Year, for the role of the correct, corruptible editor-in-chief of New Republic politics magazine , Charles "Chuck"' Lane a Golden Globe nomination. In the same year, Sarsgaard performed Lanford Wilson's Burn This with the Signature Theater Company . In 2004 the drama Kinsey - The Truth About Sex , Bill Condon's portrait of the sexologist of the same name, and the tragicomedy Garden State , in which Sarsgaard acted alongside director Zach Braff and Natalie Portman , followed.

In 2005 Peter Sarsgaard worked on four different film projects, including the two thrillers The Skeleton Key and Flight Plan - Without any trace alongside Kate Hudson and Jodie Foster , Craig Lucas 'feature film debut The Dying Gaul with Patricia Clarkson and Sam Mendes ' anti-war film Jarhead - Welcome to the filth that is about a US Marine’s experiences during the Second Gulf War in 1990.

In 2007 Sarsgaard played again in several films. In Rawson Marshall Thurber's adventure film A Doomed Summer , Sienna Miller , Mena Suvari and Nick Nolte are his film partners. Gavin Hood's thriller Powerless (2007) with Jake Gyllenhaal , Reese Witherspoon , Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin is about an Egyptian engineer who disappears without a trace on a flight from Africa to the United States.

Sarsgaard with his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal in October 2009

Private

Peter Sarsgaard has been married to actress Maggie Gyllenhaal since May 2, 2009 , whom he met in 2003 while filming the unreleased low-budget production In God's Hands . In 2006 they both appeared together in Andrew Zuckerman's short film High Falls (2007). Sarsgaard and Gyllenhaal have two daughters together.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Sarsgaard at the film premiere for The Dark Knight
Golden Globe
  • 2004: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
Further

Boston Society of Film Critics

  • 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 2004: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex

Glitter Awards

  • 2005: Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex

Golden Satellite Awards

  • 2005: Best Supporting Actor (Drama) for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex
  • 2005: Best Supporting Actor (Comedy / Musical) for Garden State

Independent Spirit Awards

  • 2004: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex

Kansas City Film Critics Circle

  • 2004: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass

National Society of Film Critics

  • 2004: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass

Online Film Critics Society

  • 2004: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

  • 2004: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass

Stockholm Film Festival

  • 2004: Best Actor for Garden State

Toronto Film Critics Association

  • 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel Online: US actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has secretly married Retrieved: May 5, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Sarsgaard, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scarsgaard, Peter; Sarsgaard, John Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Scott Air Force Base , Illinois , United States