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Sam Rockwell
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Sam Rockwell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-11-05,Daly City, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco, where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were spent with his mother in New York. He made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother, and later attended J Eugene McAteer High School in a program called SOTA. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse (1989). The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. His next big break was supposed to have come when he was slated to star in a short-lived NBC TV-series called Dream Street (1989), but he was soon fired. After graduating from high school, Sam returned to New York for good and for two years he had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials (1972): Over the Limit (1990) (TV) and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992): Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); and a guest-star turn in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Law & Order (1990), while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays. His performances in The Green Mile (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999) wowed audiences and critics alike with his chameleon-like performances as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter. More recently, he appeared in another string of mainstream films, most notably as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000) and as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), while continuing to perform in smaller independent movies. After more than ten years in the business, Sam has earned his success. In 2018, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as a troubled police deputy in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Filmography

7.066

Galaxy Quest
1999-12-25

8.508

The Green Mile
1999-12-10

6.8

Iron Man 2
2010-04-28

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

6.7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990-03-30

Charlie's Angels

5.839

Charlie's Angels
2000-11-02

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

7

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007-09-20

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

6.7

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002-12-31

6.3

Heist
2001-11-09

Gentlemen Broncos

5.7

Gentlemen Broncos
2009-09-30

5.678

Joshua
2007-01-21

Happy Hell Night

4.7

Happy Hell Night
1992-04-13

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6.663

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005-04-28

Box of Moonlight

6.784

Box of Moonlight
1996-08-29

7.28

Frost/Nixon
2008-10-15

7.004

Matchstick Men
2003-09-12

Untitled Martin McDonagh Project

0

Untitled Martin McDonagh Project

6

Celebrity
1998-09-07

Last Exit to Brooklyn

6.4

Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989-07-26

Welcome to Collinwood

6.1

Welcome to Collinwood
2002-10-04

5.1

Glory Daze
1995-10-01

Everybody's Fine

6.821

Everybody's Fine
2009-12-04

7.2

Lawn Dogs
1997-11-21

6.12

Choke
2008-09-26

6.4

Snow Angels
2007-03-07

6.6

Light Sleeper
1992-08-21

The Winning Season

6.4

The Winning Season
2009-01-19

5.6

Safe Men
1998-08-07

7.06

Conviction
2010-10-15

Strictly Business

5.4

Strictly Business
1991-11-08

7.567

Moon
2009-06-12

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

0

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

6.3

Piccadilly Jim
2004-11-01

Cowboys & Aliens

5.614

Cowboys & Aliens
2011-07-29

5.5

G-Force
2009-07-24

5.583

The Sitter
2011-12-09

6.1

Jerry and Tom
1998-12-04

5.8

Gettysburg
2011-05-30

Seven Psychopaths

6.814

Seven Psychopaths
2012-10-12

6.5

Mercy
1995-10-19

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

7

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000-06-13

3.3

Drunks
1997-03-14

The Way Way Back

7.1

The Way Way Back
2013-06-06

Better Living Through Chemistry

5.869

Better Living Through Chemistry
2014-03-14

5.685

A Single Shot
2013-09-19

7.28

IF
2024-05-08

Robin's Big Date

6

Robin's Big Date
2005-05-04

5.8

Trust Me
2013-04-20

5.614

A Case of You
2013-11-06

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

7.5

Schooled: The Price of College Sports
2013-10-16

5.2

Poltergeist
2015-05-20

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

6.8

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014-02-04

Maraschino Ruby

7.7

Maraschino Ruby
2022-06-15

Loitering with Intent

4

Loitering with Intent
2014-04-18

9.2

Showing Up
2014-02-25

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

0

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

0

The Bad Guys 2
2025-07-30

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

5.6

The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994-11-09

Digging for Fire

5.1

Digging for Fire
2015-08-21

6.6

Basquiat
1996-08-09

4.8

Don Verdean
2015-12-01

Stuntnuts: The Movie

0

Stuntnuts: The Movie

6.5

Mr. Right
2016-02-29

6.1

Laggies
2014-09-25

0

Woman In Burka
2008-01-01

Walking the Mile

5

Walking the Mile
2014-12-09

6.7

BigLove
2001-01-19

A Midsummer Night's Dream

6.4

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999-05-20

6.5

In the Soup
1992-10-23

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

8.1

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017-12-01

0

Over The Limit
1990-02-22

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

6.7

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008-03-31

Woman Walks Ahead

6.7

Woman Walks Ahead
2017-09-10

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

6.8

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009-01-16

0

Arresting Gena
1997-01-27

5.577

Mute
2018-02-23

The Best of Enemies

7.4

The Best of Enemies
2019-04-05

The Dark of Night

5

The Dark of Night
2017-05-18

Nobody Wants Your Film

1

Nobody Wants Your Film
2005-05-06

Jack and His Friends

3.5

Jack and His Friends
1992-01-01

5.76

Blue Iguana
2018-08-23

5.5

13 Moons
2002-08-30

7.026

Vice
2018-12-25

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

0

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005-07-05

6.2

Blaze
2018-08-17

The One and Only Ivan

7.392

The One and Only Ivan
2020-08-21

8.019

Jojo Rabbit
2019-10-18

Trolls World Tour

7.289

Trolls World Tour
2020-03-11

The Adventures of Drunky

0

The Adventures of Drunky

The Origins of Ebbing

6

The Origins of Ebbing
2018-06-25

5.852

Made
2001-07-13

0

The Heart

6

Subway Stories
1997-07-24

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

7.4

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019-11-26

6.1

Axis
2017-04-07

5.8

F--k
2010-04-07

7.425

Richard Jewell
2019-12-13

6.282

Clownhouse
1990-04-21

See How They Run

6.363

See How They Run
2022-09-09

7.6

The Bad Guys
2022-03-17

6.097

Argylle
2024-01-31

Somebody to Love

5.2

Somebody to Love
1994-09-27

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'

0

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'
2005-09-05

9

Prince Street
1997-03-06

6.8

Drunk History
2013-07-09

The Late Late Show with James Corden

5.413

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015-03-23

ABC Afterschool Special

6.3

ABC Afterschool Special
1972-10-04

Late Night with Seth Meyers

5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014-02-25

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

8.2

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020-06-29

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

4.3

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21

8.1

What If...?
2021-08-11

Saturday Night Live

7

Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11

7.4

Fosse/Verdon
2019-04-09

The Last Movie Stars

6.8

The Last Movie Stars
2022-07-21

The Last Movie Stars

6.8

The Last Movie Stars
2022-07-21

7.035

NYPD Blue
1993-09-21

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

4.9

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

Off Camera with Sam Jones

4

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014-02-06

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.1

The Equalizer
1985-09-18

8

Unscripted
2005-01-09