Sam Rockwell

Acting · Born 1968-11-05 in Daly City, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• Galaxy Quest as Guy Fleegman
• The Green Mile as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
• Frost/Nixon as James Reston Jr.
• Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
• Conviction as Kenny Waters
• Moon as Sam Bell
• Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as Man From The Future
• The Way Way Back as Owen
• IF as Guardian Dog (voice)

TV

• What If...? as Justin Hammer (voice)
• The White Lotus as Frank
• Prince Street
• Drunk History as Bugsy Siegal
• The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
• ABC Afterschool Special as Jason
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
• Law & Order as Officer Weddeker