Kathryn Bigelow, Liam Neeson and Peter Sarsgaard (Photo by Theo Wargo)
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2004
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Peter Sarsgaard during The 19th Annual IFP Independent Spirit Awards - Red Carpet at Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California, United States. (Photo by J. Vespa)
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2004
Park City, Utah, USA
Peter Sarsgaard on the main street in Park City, Utah. (Photo by George Pimentel)
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2004
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Peter Sarsgaard during Tibet House Benefit Concert - Arrivals at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by J. Countess)
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2005
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Peter Sarsgaard during the 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival - The Great New Wonderful Premiere at Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY, United States. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier)
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2005
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Peter Sarsgaard during 5th Annual Young Friends of Film Honors Campbell Scott and Premiere of "The Dying Gaul" at Walter Reade Theater in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Desiree Navarro)
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2006
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard during the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala Awards Presentation - Red Carpet at Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California, United States. (Photo by John Shearer)
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2006
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Peter Sarsgaard during Premiere Magazine Announces Best Performances of 2006: A Cocktail Party Celebrating 24 Industry Greats - Arrivals at Sunset Tower Hotel - The Terrace in West Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Jesse Grant)
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2009
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Peter Sarsgaard and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal attend the New York premiere of "An Education" at the Paris Theatre on October 5, 2009, in New York City. (Photo by Bennett Raglin)
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2009
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Peter Sarsgaard (L) and Carey Mulligan arrive at the premiere of Sony Pictures Classics' "An Education" at the Egyptian Theater on October 1, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter)
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2010
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrive at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison)
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2010
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the 2010 National Board of Review Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 12, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris)
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2014
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Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend Pussy Riot and The Voice Project party at The Spotted Pig on February 6, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur)
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2014
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the "Night Moves" premiere at Sunshine Landmark on May 20, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola)
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2015
Park City, Utah, USA
Peter Sarsgaard is photographed for Variety on February 3, 2015, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Michael Friberg)
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2015
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Peter Saarsgard of "Black Mass" poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 14, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
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2015
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Peter Saarsgard of "Black Mass" poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 14, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
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2015
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Peter Sarsgaard speaks onstage during the 'The Slap' panel discussion at the NBC/Universal portion of the 2015 Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 16, 2015, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown)
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2017
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Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend The Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden at MOMA on June 5, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Lars Niki)
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2017
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the "Wormwood" New York Premiere on December 12, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo)
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2017
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Peter Sarsgaard attends "Good Time" New York Premiere at SVA Theater on August 8, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan)
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2018
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the Hulu Winter TCA at Langham Hotel on January 14, 2018, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre)
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2018
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the 'The Looming Tower' premiere during the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Zoo Palast on February 20, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Matthias Nareyek)
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2018
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Peter Sarsgaard of 'The Looming Tower' speaks onstage during the Hulu portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 14, 2018, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown)
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2018
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(L-R) Tahar Rahim, Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp, Peter Sarsgaard, and Michael Stuhlbarg attend Hulu's "The Looming Tower" Series Premiere at The Paris Theatre on February 15, 2018, in New York City. (Photo by Jimi Celeste)
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2019
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the 24th annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 13, 2019, in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz)
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2019
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Peter Sarsgaard attends the "The Sound Of Silence" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at The Ray on January 26, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Rich Fury)
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Peter Sarsgaard during The 19th Annual IFP Independent Spirit Awards - Red Carpet at Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California, United States. (Photo by J. Vespa)
Peter Sarsgaard during the 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival - The Great New Wonderful Premiere at Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY, United States. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier)
Peter Sarsgaard during 5th Annual Young Friends of Film Honors Campbell Scott and Premiere of "The Dying Gaul" at Walter Reade Theater in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Desiree Navarro)
277 N Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs, CA 92262, USA
Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard during the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala Awards Presentation - Red Carpet at Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California, United States. (Photo by John Shearer)
Peter Sarsgaard during Premiere Magazine Announces Best Performances of 2006: A Cocktail Party Celebrating 24 Industry Greats - Arrivals at Sunset Tower Hotel - The Terrace in West Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Jesse Grant)
Peter Sarsgaard and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal attend the New York premiere of "An Education" at the Paris Theatre on October 5, 2009, in New York City. (Photo by Bennett Raglin)
Peter Sarsgaard (L) and Carey Mulligan arrive at the premiere of Sony Pictures Classics' "An Education" at the Egyptian Theater on October 1, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter)
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrive at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison)
Peter Sarsgaard attends the 2010 National Board of Review Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 12, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris)
Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend Pussy Riot and The Voice Project party at The Spotted Pig on February 6, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur)
Peter Saarsgard of "Black Mass" poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 14, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
Peter Saarsgard of "Black Mass" poses for a portrait at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 14, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeff Vespa)
Peter Sarsgaard speaks onstage during the 'The Slap' panel discussion at the NBC/Universal portion of the 2015 Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 16, 2015, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown)
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend The Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden at MOMA on June 5, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Lars Niki)
Peter Sarsgaard attends the 'The Looming Tower' premiere during the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Zoo Palast on February 20, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Matthias Nareyek)
Peter Sarsgaard of 'The Looming Tower' speaks onstage during the Hulu portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 14, 2018, in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown)
(L-R) Tahar Rahim, Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp, Peter Sarsgaard, and Michael Stuhlbarg attend Hulu's "The Looming Tower" Series Premiere at The Paris Theatre on February 15, 2018, in New York City. (Photo by Jimi Celeste)
Peter Sarsgaard attends the 24th annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 13, 2019, in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz)
Peter Sarsgaard attends the "The Sound Of Silence" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at The Ray on January 26, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Rich Fury)
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Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. Sarsgaard started his career as an actor in TV series such as Law and Order, New York Undercover and Subway Stories. He got his first film role as the murder victim in Dead Man Walking, however, success and acclaim came to him many years later when he was recognized for his brilliant performance in the movie Boys Don’t Cry. Throughout his career, Sarsgaard has played many characters with dark shades.
Background
Ethnicity:
Peter Sarsgaard has Danish (from a great-grandfather), Norwegian (from a great-grandmother), English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and Austrian, ancestry.
Peter Sarsgaard was born on March 7, 1971, in St. Clair County, Illinois, the United States, to Judy Lea (née Reinhardt) and John Dale Sarsgaard. His father was an Air Force Engineer and thus the family moved a lot during Sarsgaard’s childhood.
As a child, he watched soccer on TV all the time and aspired to become a soccer player. He also took ballet classes when he heard that some soccer players learned ballet to improve their coordination; however, he gave up soccer when he suffered many concussions while playing, and became interested in writing and theater.
His surname originates in Denmark, where his paternal great-great-grandparents were born.
Education
Sarsgaard attended Fairfield College Preparatory School, a private Jesuit boys' school in Connecticut, where he became interested in film. He graduated from high school in 1989.
He commenced his graduate studies at Bard College in New York but later transferred to Washington University in St. Louis. During this time he formed a theatre group called Mama’s Pot Roast. While at Washington University he performed plays in a branch of New York’s 'Actor Studio' located at St. Louis. He finished his graduation in 1993 as a History Major and moved to New York.
After quitting his soccer career due to concussion injury, he started his acting career from New York’s Actors Studio. He played as a servant in theatrical comedy Tartuffe at college.
From 1995 to 1997, Peter Sarsgaard appeared in guest roles in various TV series. His first foray into films came with Dead Man Walking where he played the part of a teenager murdered by Sean Penn. In 1995, Sarsgaard started his theatrical career with a production title Laura Dennis. His performance was highly praised and since then he has appeared in many notable productions
After working in various Indie films he saw his first commercial success in 1998 in the film The Man in the Iron Mask. In this film, he played the role of Raoul, the son of Athos, played by John Malkovich. In 1999, Sarsgaard played the role of a murderer John Lotter in the independent movie Boys Don’t Cry which was based on a true story. His performance was universally praised with critics remarking that his depiction of the sociopath had made it very believable.
In 2001, in the movie The Center of the World, Sarsgaard played his first lead role. He played a computer engineer, Richard Longman going wild in Las Vegas. The film was not received well but critics praised his performance.
2003 saw the release of The Shattered Glass where he portrayed the role of the editor Charles Lane of The New Republic in the real-life story of journalist Stephen Glass. His performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
The movie Kinsey based on the life of Alfred Kinsey, who studied human sexuality, came out in 2004. Sarsgaard's role as Martin Clyde was highly talked about as it involved frontal nudity and kissing Liam Neeson. He was hailed as the best character actor of his generation and was nominated for many awards and won one.
Sarsgaard continued to play supporting roles in 2005 with Flightplan which became a huge success worldwide making him a well-known actor around the world. Sarsgaard did theater along with his films and in 2008 made his Broadway debut at The Royal Court Theater with Anton Chekov’s The Seagull.
In 2010, he hosted an episode of the show Saturday Night Live. In the introduction, he did a comic piece that played on his surname, where he tried to sell face masks preventing SARS called SARS-guard.
The movie Blue Jasmine, released in 2013, brought Peter Sarsgaard and Woody Allen together. Sarsgaard played a diplomat named Dwight opposite Cate Blanchett. He had only read his part of the script so he knew what his role was, but throughout the filming, he didn't know the whole story.
In 2016, he portrayed the role of Robert Kennedy in the film Jackie. Sarsgaard remarked it was one of the most surreal things he had done, pretending to be Robert Kennedy waiting in front of the White House at the funeral for JFK.
In 2018, Peter Sarsgaard played the role of CIA chief Martin Schmidt in the TV mini-series The Looming Tower based on the book of the same name. The series shows the events leading up to 9/11. Sarsgaard took five months to consider doing the role and finally decided to take it up when he could not stop thinking about the script.
In September 2019, Peter Sarsgaard appeared in The Sound of Silence, a 2019 American drama film directed by Michael Tyburski. It was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The plot centers on Peter Lucian, played by Peter Sarsgaard, a "house tuner," working on the sonic environment of homes.
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Religion
Sarsgaard was raised as a Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy. In an interview with The New York Times, Sarsgaard confirmed that he followed Catholicism, saying: "I like the death-cult aspect of Catholicism. Every religion is interested in death, but Catholicism takes it to a particularly high level. [...] Seriously, in Catholicism, you're supposed to love your enemy. That really impressed me as a kid, and it has helped me as an actor. [...] The way that I view the characters I play is part of my religious upbringing. To abandon curiosity in all personalities, good or bad, is to give up hope in humanity."
Politics
Sarsgaard is a supporter of Bernie Sanders. When he was asked about his takes on Donald Trump, Sarsgaard said: "I don't know. He's, I guess, mildly entertaining in the way that checkers is or something."
Views
Sarsgaard is vegan, but he says he cooks meat for his children.
In June 2013, Sarsgaard and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.
Quotations:
"When you don't have power, which I still don't in the grand Hollywood scheme of things, you get offered things that you wouldn't ordinarily be offered. Frequently, other people know what I can do more than I do."
"I'm very much against the death penalty. It's very easy to do a piece about someone who's been railroaded by the system, who's innocent. If you don't believe in the death penalty, you have to take an extreme circumstance - someone who's indefensible - to see if it still applies. Otherwise, the death penalty applies in some cases."
Personality
Sarsgaard admits to having a lifelong fear of flying.
Interests
gardening
Politicians
Bernie Sanders
Writers
Scott Jurek
Sport & Clubs
running, soccer
Athletes
David Icke, Tony Dorsett
Music & Bands
Woody Guthrie
Connections
Among his most notable romantic relationships, Sarsgaard dated burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese and model and actress Shalom Harlow. Early in his film career, he dated photographer Malerie Marder, a close friend from his days attending Bard College, who had featured Sarsgaard in some of her early work. Sarsgaard began a romantic relationship with actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, the sister of his close friend Jake Gyllenhaal, in 2002. In April 2006, they announced their engagement, and on May 2, 2009, they married in a small ceremony in Brindisi, Italy. They have two daughters.