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Sam Rockwell

Acting

Born November 5, 1968 · Daly City, California, USA

Also known as Samuel Rockwell

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 2018
  • BAFTA AwardBest Actor in a Supporting Role · 2018
  • Golden Globe Awards · 2018
  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 2009
  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 2007
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  • Silver Bear · 2003
  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 1997
  • Actor Awards
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 2019 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actor · 2018 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

The Green Mile

1999as 'Wild Bill' Wharton

What If...?

2021as Justin Hammer (voice)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017as Dixon

Jojo Rabbit

2019as Captain Klenzendorf

The Bad Guys 2

2025as Wolf (voice)

The White Lotus

2021as Frank

Moon

2009as Sam Bell

The Bad Guys

2022as Wolf (voice)

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

2013as Narrator (voice)

The One and Only Ivan

2020as Ivan (voice)

Richard Jewell

2019as Watson Bryant

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

2019as Self

The Best of Enemies

2019as Claiborne Paul Ellis

F Is for Family

2015as Vic (voice)

Frost/Nixon

2008as James Reston Jr.

Law & Order

1990as Officer Weddeker

Trolls World Tour

2020as Hickory (voice)

Hot Ones

2015as Self

The Way Way Back

2013as Owen

Conviction

2010as Kenny Waters

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007as Charley Ford

Galaxy Quest

1999as Guy Fleegman

Lawn Dogs

1997as Trent Burns

NYPD Blue

1993as Billy

IF

2024as Guardian Dog (voice)

Fosse/Verdon

2019as Bob Fosse

Vice

2018as George W. Bush

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009as Self

Matchstick Men

2003as Frank Mercer

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

2025as The Man From The Future

The Last Movie Stars

2022as Self

Iron Man 2

2010as Justin Hammer

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Drunk History

2013as Bugsy Siegal

Seven Psychopaths

2012as Billy Bickle

Everybody's Fine

2009as Robert

Box of Moonlight

1996as The Kid

Sweet Thing

2020Executive Producer

Woman Walks Ahead

2017as Silas Groves

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

2014as Justin Hammer

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005as Zaphod Beeblebrox

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2002as Chuck Barris

Light Sleeper

1992as Jealous

In the Soup

1992as Pauli

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990as Head Thug

Basquiat

1996as Thug

Mr. Right

2015as Mr. Right

Snow Angels

2007as Glenn Marchand

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989as Al

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1999as Francis Flute