
Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell
- Date of birth
- Age
- 57
- Place of birth
- Daly City, California, USA
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupations
- stage actor, film actor, manufacturer, television actor, film producer, voice actor, actor
- Languages
- English
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 (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).
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Education
- William Esper Studio
- Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2018
- Silver Bear2003
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2018 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1997 Lawn Dogs
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award2007 Joshua
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award2009 Moon
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2018 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- 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
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2018 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2019 Vice
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