Sam Rockwell

Described as

American actor (born 1968)

Other names

Samuel Rockwell

Born

November 5, 1968 · 3 references

Born in

Daly City

Name at birth

Samuel Rockwell

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

stage actor; film actor; manufacturer; television actor · 1 reference; film producer · 1 reference; voice actor; actor · 2 references

Education

William Esper Studio · 1 reference; Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

Known for

The Bad Guys

Awards

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (2018); Silver Bear (2003); Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2018); Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (3 times) (1997, 2007, 2009); BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2018) · 1 reference; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role; Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie; Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor; Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast; Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast; Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor; Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor; Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor; Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

Father

Pete Rockwell · 1 reference

Lived in

Los Angeles County

Wikipedias with a page

64

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Samuel Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. In a career spanning over three decades of stage and screen, he is known for his offbeat and charismatic character roles in independent films, and has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Silver Bear, in addition to nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
Rockwell started his career portraying diverse supporting roles in a variety of genres, with a number of guest television roles and roles in films such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Charlie's Angels (2000). He began to garner greater notice in the 2000s with his performance as Chuck Barris in the spy thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), for which he received the Silver Bear for Best Actor. His acclaim continued with roles in Moon (2009), Conviction (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), and The Way, Way Back (2013).
Rockwell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a troubled police deputy in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and was nominated again the following year for his portrayal of George W. Bush in Adam McKay's biopic Vice (2018). During this time he has acted in the satirical dramedy Jojo Rabbit (2019), the biographical drama Richard Jewell (2019), the historical drama Best of Enemies (2019), the mystery comedy See How They Run (2022) and voicing Mr. Wolf in the crime animated comedy film franchise The Bad Guys (2022–present).
On television, Rockwell won an Actor Award and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Bob Fosse in the FX on Hulu limited series Fosse/Verdon (2019). For his performance in the third season of The White Lotus (2025), he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. On stage, he has starred in the Broadway productions of Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010) and the revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2022), the later of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

Born, in its opening lines

November 5, 1968

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