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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
Law & Order
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Equalizer
The Oscars
Big Brother
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Emmy Awards
What If...?
The White Lotus
Unscripted
Drunk History
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Subway Stories
IF
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Last Movie Stars
A Midsummer Night's Dream
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Digging for Fire
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Mute
The Green Mile
Trolls World Tour
Strictly Business
Prince Street
The Sitter
F is for Family
Jojo Rabbit
Charlie's Angels
Iron Man 2
Drunks
The Way Way Back
Vice
Richard Jewell
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Cowboys & Aliens
Woman Walks Ahead
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Conviction
The One and Only Ivan
Gentlemen Broncos
Argylle
Fosse/Verdon
Mr. Right
Choke
The Bad Guys
Moon
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
The Bad Guys 2
Poltergeist
See How They Run
G-Force
Production Credits
Fosse/Verdon
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