Peter Sarsgaard Filmography

Born:: March 7, 1971 in Bellville, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actor who has demonstrated a fearless capacity for exploring the darker side of human nature, Peter Sarsgaard became synonymous with the term "edgy young performer." With looks that allow him to either play soft-skinned pretty boys or greasy-haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his...Read More

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An Education

Actors: Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike

Synopsis: A suburban teen in the midst of London's swinging '60s life is shaken up when a handsome socialite hits town in this coming-of-age drama from director Lone Scherfig (Just Like Home). Dominic Cooper, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, and Emma Thompson star in the BBC Films production. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/09
In the Electric Mist

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ned Beatty, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet and a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier's adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. Jerzy Kromolowski Read More

1/1/08
Elegy

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard

Synopsis: Adapted from author Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, director Isabel Coixet's elegant tale of obsession explores the relationship between a highly respected professor (Sir Ben Kingsley) and an impossibly gorgeous grad student (Penelope Cruz). As their relationship deepens, the professor finds Read More

1/1/08
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Actors: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte, Mena Suvari, Rawson Marshall Thurber

Synopsis: A recent college graduate desperate to have one last fling before launching himself into the real world falls into a strange love triangle with a charismatic couple in director Rawson Thurber's feature adaptation of Michael Chabon's freshman novel. Peter Sarsgaard, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte, Sienna Read More

2008
Orphan

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: Dark Castle Entertainment presents the story of a couple (Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga) that seeks adoption after losing their own child, only to welcome into their house a young girl who has a hidden evil streak underneath her sweet demeanor in the Warner Bros. picture Orphan. House of Wax's Jaume Collet-Serra Read More

1/1/08
Rendition

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally

Synopsis: The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical Read More

10/19/07
Year of the Dog

Actors: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard

Synopsis: An unremarkable administrative assistant finds her life going to the dogs both literally and figuratively in actor/screenwriter-turned-director Mike White's dark comedy drama. An inexplicably cheerful office worker whose somewhat sad excuse for a life seems to revolve around her pet beagle Pencil Read More

4/13/07
Small Tragedy

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary-Louise Parker, Patricia Clarkson

1/1/07
High Falls

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Peter Sarsgaard, Waris Ahluwalia, Charlie Tahan

Synopsis: Hollywood luminaries Maggie Gyllenhaal (Mona Lisa Smile, Secretary) and Peter Saarsgard (Garden State, Flightplan) co-star in director Andrew Zuckerman's 33-minute short High Falls, helmed from a script by Alex Vlack. The story follows a man and his wife who embark on a country vacation with a Read More

2007
Saturday Night Live: Peter Sarsgaard

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, The Strokes

Synopsis: This 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Peter Sarsgaard and features musical guest The Strokes. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Jarhead

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Brian Gberaghty, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf War in Read More

11/4/05
The Dying Gaul

Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard, Robin Bartlett, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Synopsis: An artist who compromises his work for money finds his heart and soul are also being toyed with by his new patrons in this drama. Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) is a playwright who has recently lost his longtime lover and business partner, Malcolm (Bill Camp), to AIDS-related illnesses. Robert has Read More

11/4/05
Flightplan

Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter Read More

9/23/05
The Skeleton Key

Actors: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Joy Bryant

Synopsis: A young woman discovers a terrible secret while caring for an elderly man in this supernatural thriller. Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a care provider for the aged who is hired away from the hospice where she works by Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands). Violet needs someone to help take care of her Read More

8/12/05
Death of a Dynasty

Actors: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Devon Aoki, Capone, Robert Stapleton, Rashida Jones

Synopsis: Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash (Paper Soldiers) directs this semi-autobiographical film based on his life as the proprietor of Roc-a-Fella Records. Ebon Moss-Bachrach stars as David Katz, a reporter who, upon interviewing rap producer Damon (Capone), finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the Read More

4/29/05
Kinsey

Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most Read More

11/12/04
Garden State

Actors: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart

Synopsis: In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew Read More

7/30/04
Shattered Glass

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: Before Jayson Blair made headlines for his plagiarized New York Times reporting, Stephen Glass defamed the weekly current events magazine The New Republic with a series of eye-catching, entertaining, and completely fabricated stories. Now Glass' trail of lies gets the big-screen treatment in Read More

10/31/03
K-19: The Widowmaker

Actors: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel

Synopsis: A real-life historical incident becomes the basis for this military thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow that's reminiscent of such submarine dramas as Das Boot (1981), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Crimson Tide (1995), and U-571 (2000). Harrison Ford stars as Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Read More

7/19/02
The Salton Sea

Actors: Val Kilmer

Synopsis: The feature film debut of producer and TV director D.J. Caruso, this pulpy noir mystery is a dark tale of redemption set among southern California crystal methamphetamine "tweakers." Val Kilmer stars as Danny Parker, a former trumpet player who has become a tattooed speed freak living in a Read More

4/26/02
Empire

Actors: John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Delilah Cotto

Synopsis: A man who has made good in an illegal business discovers going straight is a more complicated matter than he imagined in this urban drama. Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is a drug dealer who has made a small fortune selling a heroin-based drug cocktail he's concocted called "Empire." Victor doesn't Read More

2/6/02
Unconditional Love

Actors: Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: What's a middle-aged woman to do when her husband walks out on her and her favorite pop star is murdered by a serial killer? Writer/director P.J. Hogan explores this and many other pressing questions in Unconditional Love, a comic murder-mystery he devised with his wife and co-screenwriter, Jocelyn Moorhouse Read More

2002
The Center of the World

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Balthazar Getty

Synopsis: In this digitally shot feature from acclaimed director Wayne Wang) (The Joy Luck Club), the boundaries of sexual relations are put to the test by two individuals. Richard (Peter Sarsgaard) is a dot-com entrepreneur who, despite earning millions of dollars, feels little connection to the outside Read More

4/20/01
Kitchen Privileges

Actors: Kathi Wressnig, Peter Sarsgaard, Angeline Ball, Geoffrey Lower, Liz Stauber

Synopsis: After suffering a brutal rape, Marie (Katharina Wressnig) becomes agoraphobic, refusing to leave her house and remaining oblivious to events in the outside world. Though young women are being found dead and mutilated on local freeways, Marie takes in boarders, one of whom is Tom (Peter Read More

2000
Boys Don't Cry

Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Alison Folland

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. In 1993, 20-year-old Brandon (Hilary Swank) leaves Lincoln, Nebraska for the nearby community of Falls City Read More

10/8/99
Desert Blue

Actors: Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, John Heard, Lucinda Jenney, Casey Affleck

Synopsis: Morgan J. Freeman directed this comedy-drama that takes place in the desert town of Baxter Beach, California, where the locals, lookers, visitors and slackers include dreamer Blue (Brendan Sexton III), pipe-bomb babe Ely (Christina Ricci), all-terrain-vehicle champ Pete (Casey Affleck), nerdy Read More

6/4/99
Another Day In Paradise

Actors: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Oris

Synopsis: Following the acclaim for his 1995 Kids debut, Larry Clark directed this drug-crime drama, set in the Midwest of the '70s. Teen junkie Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) shares an apartment with his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and pal Danny (Branden Williams). Bobbie is injured during an Read More

12/30/98
The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated Randall Wallace (Braveheart) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the 1848 classic by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), Athos (John Malkovich), and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu Read More

1998
Dead Man Walking

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capital punishment. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a nun and teacher living in rural Louisiana. One day, she receives a letter from Matthew Read More

1995
Law & Order: Paranoia

Synopsis: After a coed is murdered, a detailed description of the crime appears online. Once again, detective Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) must rely upon the computer savvy of his partner Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) to track down the perp. Once the accused is in custody, Assistant D.A. McCoy (Sam Waterston) must deal Read More

1995