Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971 at Scott Air Force Base , Illinois ) is an American film and stage actor .
Life
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.
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)
- 1995: Dead Man Walking - His Last Walk (Dead Man Walking)
- 1998: Minor details
- 1998: The Man in the Iron Mask (The Man in the Iron Mask)
- 1998: Desert Blue
- 1998: Another Day in Paradise
- 1999: Welcome to Freak City (Freak City)
- 1999: Boys Don't Cry
- 2000: The Cell
- 2000: Housebound
- 2001: The Center of the World
- 2002: Imperium - Two worlds collide (Empire)
- 2002: The Salton Sea
- 2002: K-19 - Showdown in the Deep (K-19: The Widowmaker)
- 2002: Who Killed Victor Fox? (Unconditional love)
- 2003: Death of a Dynasty
- 2003: Shattered Glass
- 2004: Garden State
- 2004: Kinsey - The Truth About Sex (Kinsey)
- 2005: Flightplan - Without any trace (Flightplan)
- 2005: The Skeleton Key (The Skeleton Key)
- 2005: The Dying Gaul
- 2005: Jarhead - Welcome to the Dirt (Jarhead)
- 2007: High Falls (short film)
- 2007: Year of the Dog
- 2007: Powerless (rendition)
- 2008: A Fateful Summer (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh)
- 2008: Elegy or the art of loving (Elegy)
- 2009: An Education
- 2009: Murder in Louisiana (In the Electric Mist)
- 2009: Orphan - The Orphan (Orphan)
- 2010: Knight and Day
- 2011: Green Lantern
- 2012: Robot & Frank
- 2013: Lovelace
- 2013: Blue Jasmine
- 2013: Night Moves
- 2013: The Killing (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 2014: Pawn Sacrifice - Game of Kings
- 2015: Experimenter
- 2015: Ladygrey
- 2015: Black Mass
- 2016: Jackie: The First Lady (Jackie)
- 2016: The Magnificent Seven (The Magnificent Seven)
- 2017: Loving Pablo
- 2018: Between Earth and Sky
- 2019: The Sound of Silence
- 2019: Mr. Jones
- 2019: Human Capital
Awards
- 2004: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
- Further
Boston Society of Film Critics
- 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
- 2004: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
- 2005: Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex
- 2005: Best Supporting Actor for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex
- 2005: Best Supporting Actor (Drama) for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex
- 2005: Best Supporting Actor (Comedy / Musical) for Garden State
- 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
- 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
- 2004: Best Actor for Garden State
Toronto Film Critics Association
- 2003: Best Supporting Actor for Shattered Glass
Web links
- Peter Sarsgaard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel Online: US actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has secretly married Retrieved: May 5, 2009
personal data | |
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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 |