Sam Rockwell

Born: 1968-11-05

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. He was nominated in the same category the following year for portraying George W. Bush 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.


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as Jimmy Silk
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as Eddie
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as Pero
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as Don Verdean
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as Self
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as Aldo
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as Wayne
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as Jerry
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as Sam
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as Sam
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as Officer Witt
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as Jason
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as Officer Weddeker
First aired: 1990-09-13

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Law & Order

as Randy Borland
First aired: 1990-09-13

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-17

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as Justin Hammer (voice)
First aired: 2021-08-11

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as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2009-07-16

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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self
First aired: 2014-12-21

PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through...

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Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host
First aired: 1975-10-11

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The Late Late Show with James Corden

as Self
First aired: 2015-03-23

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as Slick
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as Billy
First aired: 1993-09-21

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as Jason
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as Bugsy Siegal
First aired: 2013-07-09

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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self
First aired: 2015-08-02

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Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-06

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The Oscars

as Self
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as Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
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The Last Movie Stars

as Self
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as Self
First aired: 2005-01-09

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as Westley
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as Bob Fosse
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