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Sam Rockwell
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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
Law & Order
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Equalizer
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Honest Trailers
The Late Late Show with James Corden
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'
The Green Mile
Mute
Trolls World Tour
Prince Street
Strictly Business
The Sitter
F is for Family
The Way Way Back
Iron Man 2
Drunks
Charlie's Angels
Jojo Rabbit
Richard Jewell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Vice
Cowboys & Aliens
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Woman Walks Ahead
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The One and Only Ivan
Gentlemen Broncos
Armor Wars
Argylle
Conviction
See How They Run
G-Force
Fosse/Verdon
Moon
Choke
The Bad Guys 2
Mr. Right
Poltergeist
The Bad Guys
Production Credits
Fosse/Verdon
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