Acting • AGE 55
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 Deser...


The Bride!
Jake Wiles
2026

DTF St. Louis
'Modern Love' / Christopher Spurce
2026

Pet Shop Days
2025

September 5
Roone Arledge
2024

Coup!
Floyd Monk
2024

Presumed Innocent
Tommasino 'Tommy' Molto
2024

Memory
Saul
2023

The Survivor
Emory Anderson
2022

The Batman
District Attorney Gil Colson
2022

The Lost Daughter
Professor Hardy
2021

Dopesick
Rick Mountcastle
2021

The Guilty
Henry Fisher (voice)
2021

Best Summer Ever
Camera Man
2020

Human Capital
Quint Manning
2020

Homemade
Frank
2020

Interrogation
David Russell
2020

Mr. Jones
Walter Duranty
2019

The Sound of Silence
Peter Lucian
2019

The Lie
Jay Logan
2018

The Looming Tower
Martin Schmidt
2018

Wormwood
Frank Olson
2017

Loving Pablo
Shepard
2017

Wormwood
Frank Olson
2017

Jackie
Robert Kennedy
2016

America Divided
Self
2016

The Magnificent Seven
Bartholomew Bogue
2016

Starring Austin Pendleton
Self
2016

Experimenter
Stanley Milgram
2015

Black Mass
Brian Halloran
2015

Pawn Sacrifice
Father Bill Lombardy
2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015

Ladygrey
Samuel
2015

The Slap
Hector
2015

Valley Uprising
Self - Narrator (voice)
2014

Night Moves
Harmon
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014

Lovelace
Chuck Traynor
2013

Blue Jasmine
Dwight
2013

Very Good Girls
Fitzsimmons
2013

Robot & Frank
Robot (voice)
2012

Green Lantern
Hector Hammond
2011

The Killing
Ray Seward
2011

Conan
Self
2010

Knight and Day
Fitzgerald
2010

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Alan Troy (archive footage)
2010

An Education
David Goldman
2009

Mama's Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children
Self
2009

Orphan
John
2009

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Self
2009

In the Electric Mist
Elrod Sykes
2009

Elegy
Kenneth Kepesh
2008

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Cleveland Arning
2008

Indie Sex: Teens
2008

Rendition
Alan Smith
2007

Indie Sex
Self
2007

Year of the Dog
Newt
2007

High Falls
Pedro
2007

"Jarhead" Diaries
Self
2006

Jarhead: Background
Self
2006

Jarhead
Alan Troy
2005

Flightplan
Carson
2005

The Skeleton Key
Luke Marshall
2005

The Dying Gaul
Robert Sandrich
2005

Kinsey
Clyde Martin
2004

Garden State
Mark
2004

Shattered Glass
Charles 'Chuck' Lane
2003

Death of a Dynasty
Brendon III
2003

Empire
Jack
2002

Unconditional Love
Window Washer
2002

K-19: The Widowmaker
Vadim Radtchinko
2002

The Salton Sea
Jimmy the Finn
2002

The Center of the World
Richard Longman
2001

Housebound
Mignon
2000

The Cell
Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
2000

Boys Don't Cry
John Lotter
1999

Desert Blue
Billy Baxter
1999

Freak City
Cal Jackson
1999

Another Day in Paradise
Ty
1998

The Man in the Iron Mask
Raoul
1998

Cracker
1997

Subway Stories
Boy No. 1 (segment "Underground")
1997

The Daily Show
Self
1996

Dead Man Walking
Walter Delacroix
1995

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993

Law & Order
Josh Strand
1990

This Week
1981

Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975

Neuromancer
John Ashpool