Sam Rockwell
Academy Award-winning American actor renowned for his chameleonic range across independent cinema, blockbusters, stage, and television.
Sam Rockwell - Personal Information
- Date of Birth: November 5, 1968
- Place of Birth: Daly City, California, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Thanks
Biography
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo.
Rockwell's other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Moon (2009), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022).
Selected Filmography
A look at Sam Rockwell's most recent and notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Wild Horse Nine (2026) as Lee
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) as The Man From The Future
- The Bad Guys 2 (2025) as Wolf (voice)
- Is / Was \ Will (2025)
- The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis (2025) as Wolf (voice)
- IF (2024) as Guardian Dog (voice)
- Argylle (2024) as Aidan Wilde
- See How They Run (2022) as Inspector Stoppard
- The Last Movie Stars (TV - 2022) as Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
- The Last Movie Stars (TV - 2022) as Self
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