Biography
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 C...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Bride!
2026
In the 1930s, a lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a...
September 5
2024
as Roone Arledge
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Coup!
2024
as Floyd Monk
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the misch...
Coup!
2024
Executive Producer
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the misch...
Memory
2023
as Saul
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...
Pet Shop Days
2023
In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in...
VENGEANCE IN THE MAKING
2022
as Self
Documentary footage from The Batman (2022) Blu Ray.
The Survivor
2022
as Emory Anderson
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use hig...
The Batman
2022
as District Attorney Gil Colson
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 Lost Daughter
2021
as Professor Hardy
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
The Guilty
2021
as Henry Fisher (voice)
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
Best Summer Ever
2020
as Camera Man
A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp.
Best Summer Ever
2020
Executive Producer
A high school football player is shocked to discover that the new girl in school is the same girl he fell in love with at a summer dance camp.
Human Capital
2020
as Quint Manning
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change thei...
Mr. Jones
2019
as Walter Duranty
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the S...
The Sound of Silence
2019
as Peter Lucian
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem ...
The Lie
2018
as Jay Logan
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend...
Wormwood
2017
as Frank Olson
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
Loving Pablo
2017
as Shepard
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous jour...
Jackie
2016
as Robert Kennedy
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
The Magnificent Seven
2016
as Bartholomew Bogue
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Experimenter
2015
as Stanley Milgram
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering pain...
Black Mass
2015
as Brian Halloran
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an F...
Pawn Sacrifice
2015
as Father Bill Lombardy
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Ladygrey
2015
as Samuel
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Valley Uprising
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the ...
Night Moves
2014
as Harmon
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric d...
Lovelace
2013
as Chuck Traynor
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Lovelace
2013
Executive Producer
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Blue Jasmine
2013
as Dwight
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger...
Very Good Girls
2013
as Fitzsimmons
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street arti...
Robot & Frank
2012
as Robot (voice)
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. ...
Green Lantern
2011
as Hector Hammond
For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a...
Knight and Day
2010
as Fitzgerald
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting al...
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
as Alan Troy (archive footage)
A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.
An Education
2009
as David Goldman
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When ...
Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
2009
as Self
Featurette on the 2009 horror film Orphan.
Orphan
2009
as John
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
In the Electric Mist
2009
as Elrod Sykes
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Bal...
Elegy
2008
as Kenneth Kepesh
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Casti...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
2008
as Cleveland Arning
Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores lov...
Rendition
2007
as Alan Smith
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u...
Year of the Dog
2007
as Newt
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
High Falls
2007
as Pedro
During a weekend at a country home, a man and his pregnant wife tell their secrets to their best friend, jeopardizing their relationship.
Jarhead
2005
as Alan Troy
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit a...
Flightplan
2005
as Carson
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...
The Skeleton Key
2005
as Luke Marshall
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
The Dying Gaul
2005
as Robert Sandrich
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
Kinsey
2004
as Clyde Martin
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...
Garden State
2004
as Mark
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to...
Shattered Glass
2003
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff wr...
Death of a Dynasty
2003
as Brendon III
A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-...
Empire
2002
as Jack
Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. ...
Unconditional Love
2002
as Window Washer
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Vadim Radtchinko
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
The Salton Sea
2002
as Jimmy the Finn
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...
The Center of the World
2001
as Richard Longman
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap ...
Housebound
2000
as Mignon
A woman with a tragic past rents her bungalow to a man who loves cooking, but according to her distorted mind he uses his knives more than he should.
The Cell
2000
as Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Boys Don't Cry
1999
as John Lotter
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Desert Blue
1999
as Billy Baxter
An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, ...
Freak City
1999
as Cal Jackson
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in ...
Another Day in Paradise
1998
as Ty
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and...
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
as Raoul
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
Subway Stories
1997
as Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Dead Man Walking
1995
as Walter Delacroix
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
The Damning of a Country Merchant
N/A
The life of the patriarch of a rural merchant family in 1910 Indiana is suddenly disrupted by a charismatic industrialist who has engaged in a secret ...