
Sam Rockwell
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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Acting History
2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as Man From The Future
2025The Bad Guys 2 as Wolf (voice)
2025Is / Was \ Will
2025The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis as Wolf (voice)
2024IF as Guardian Dog (voice)
2024Argylle as Aidan Wilde
2022See How They Run as Inspector Stoppard
2022The Last Movie Stars as Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
2022The Last Movie Stars as Self
2022Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys' as Self
2022Maraschino Ruby as Wolf (voice)
2022The Bad Guys as Wolf (voice)
2021What If...? as Justin Hammer (voice)
2021The White Lotus as Frank
2020The One and Only Ivan as Ivan (voice)
2020Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
2020Trolls World Tour as Hickory (voice)
2019Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
2019Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary as Self
2019Jojo Rabbit as Captain Klenzendorf
2019Fosse/Verdon as Bob Fosse
2019The Best of Enemies as Claiborne Paul Ellis
2018Vice as George W. Bush
2018Blue Iguana as Eddie
2018Blaze as Oilman 3
2018Woman Walks Ahead as Silas Groves
2018The Origins of Ebbing as Self
2018Mute as Sam Bell
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
2017The Dark of Night as Officer Witt
2017Axis as Himself
2016Mr. Right as Mr. Right
2015F is for Family as Vic (voice)
2015Don Verdean as Don Verdean
2015Digging for Fire as Ray
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015Poltergeist as Eric Bowen
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
2015Hot Ones as Self
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
2014Laggies as Craig Hunter
2014Loitering with Intent as Wayne
2014Better Living Through Chemistry as Douglas Varney
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Showing Up as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2014Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King as Justin Hammer
2013A Case of You as Gary
2013Schooled: The Price of College Sports as Narrator (voice)
2013A Single Shot as John Moon
2013Drunk History as Bugsy Siegal
2013The Way Way Back as Owen
2013Trust Me as Aldo
2012Seven Psychopaths as Billy Bickle
2011The Sitter as Karl
2011Cowboys & Aliens as Doc
2011Gettysburg as Narrator
2010Conviction as Kenny Waters
2010Iron Man 2 as Justin Hammer
2010F--k as Sam
2009Everybody's Fine as Robert
2009Gentlemen Broncos as Bronco / Brutus
2009G-Force as Darwin the Guinea Pig (voice)
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Moon as Sam Bell
2009The Winning Season as Bill
2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008Frost/Nixon as James Reston Jr.
2008Choke as Victor Mancini
2008The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw as Self
2008Woman In Burka as Sam
2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Charley Ford
2007Snow Angels as Glenn Marchand
2007Joshua as Brad Cairn
2006Zerk and Shirts: Junk Yard Dogs as Rod
2005Don'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' as Self
2005Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005Nobody Wants Your Film as Self
2005Robin's Big Date as The Bat-Man
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Zaphod Beeblebrox
2005The F Word as Jeremy
2005Unscripted as Self
2004Piccadilly Jim as Jim Crocker
2003Matchstick Men as Frank Mercer
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Chuck Barris
2002Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Pizza Guy
2002Welcome to Collinwood as Pero
200213 Moons as Rick
2001Heist as Jimmy Silk
2001Made as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
2001BigLove as Nate
2000Charlie's Angels as Eric Knox
2000Big Brother as Self - Guest
2000Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self (uncredited)
1999Galaxy Quest as Guy Fleegman
1999The Green Mile as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
1999A Midsummer Night's Dream as Francis Flute
1998Jerry and Tom as Jerry
1998Celebrity as Darrow Entourage
1998Safe Men as Samuel
1998Louis & Frank as Sam
1997Lawn Dogs as Trent
1997Subway Stories as Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
1997Drunks as Tony
1997Prince Street
1997Arresting Gena as Sonny
1996Box of Moonlight as The Kid
1996Basquiat as Thug
1995Mercy as Matty
1995Glory Daze as Rob
1994The Search for One-eye Jimmy as One-eye Jimmy
1994Somebody to Love as Polish Guy
1993NYPD Blue as Billy
1992In the Soup as Pauli
1992Light Sleeper as Jealous
1992Jack and His Friends as Louie
1991Strictly Business as Gary
1991Happy Hell Night as Young Henry Collins
1990Law & Order as Officer Weddeker
1990Law & Order as Randy Borland
1990Clownhouse as Randy Collins
1990Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Head Thug
1990Over The Limit as Jason
1989Last Exit to Brooklyn as Al
1985The Equalizer as Slick
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1972ABC Afterschool Special as Jason
1953The Oscars as Self
1949The Emmy Awards as Self
—Ray Gunn as Raymond Gunn (voice)
—The Heart
—Wild Horse Nine as Lee
—The Adventures of Drunky as Drunky
—DNA
—Tumor as Frank Armstrong
—The Bad Guys 3 as Wolf (voice)
—Stuntnuts: The Movie
—Hellhound







