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'''John Peter Sarsgaard''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɑr|z|ɡ|ɑr|d}}; born March 7, 1971)<ref>{{cite web|last=Morales|first=Tatiana|title=Peter Sarsgaard Flying High|date=September 29, 2005|website=CBS News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-sarsgaard-flying-high/|accessdate=January 7, 2025}}</ref> is an American actor. He studied at the [[Actors Studio]], before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television. 

He made his film debut with ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]'' (1995). He gained recognition for his role in ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'' (1998), ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' (1999), and ''[[The Center of the World]]'' (2001). He received a nomination for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture|Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his portrayal of [[Charles Lane (journalist)|Charles Lane]] in ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]'' (2003) and won the [[Volpi Cup for Best Actor]] for playing a man with [[dementia]] in ''[[Memory (2023 film)|Memory]]'' (2023). 

Sarsgaard has acted in films, such as ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'', ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]'' (both 2004), ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'', ''[[Flightplan]]'' (both 2005), ''[[Elegy (film)|Elegy]]'' (2008), ''[[An Education]]'', ''[[Orphan (2009 film)|Orphan]]'' (both 2009), ''[[Lovelace (film)|Lovelace]]'', ''[[Blue Jasmine]]'' (both 2013), ''[[Black Mass (film)|Black Mass]]'' (2015), ''[[Jackie (2016 film)|Jackie]]'' (2016), and ''[[The Lost Daughter (film)|The Lost Daughter]]'' (2021). He is also known for acting in blockbuster films, such as ''[[Knight and Day]]'' (2010), ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]'' (2011), ''[[The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)|The Magnificent Seven]]'' (2016), and ''[[The Batman (film)|The Batman]]'' (2022).
 
Sarsgaard is also known for his television roles including in the [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]]/[[Netflix]] crime series ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]'' (2013), the [[Hulu]] limited series ''[[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|The Looming Tower]]'' (2018) and ''[[Dopesick (miniseries)|Dopesick]]'' (2021), and the [[Apple TV+]] series ''[[Presumed Innocent (TV series)|Presumed Innocent]]'' (2024), earning [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations for ''Dopesick'' and ''Presumed Innocent''. Sarsgaard made his [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] debut portraying Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in the revival of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s ''[[The Seagull]]'' (2008).

==Early life and education==
John Peter Sarsgaard was born at [[Scott Air Force Base]] in [[St. Clair County, Illinois]], on March 7, 1971, the son of Judy Lea (''[[Given name|née]]'' Reinhardt) and John Dale Sarsgaard.<ref name=genal1>{{cite web|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/a/r/Judy-Sarsgard/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0324.html|title=Judy-Sarsgard - User Trees - Genealogy.com|work=genealogy.com}}</ref> His father was an [[USAF|Air Force]] engineer and later worked for [[Monsanto]] and [[IBM]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Ron|last=Dicker|title=Sarsgaard's Ticket - 'Flightplan' Actor Reveals In The Paparazzi-Less Realm Of Middle Celebrity|date=September 18, 2005|journal=[[The Hartford Courant]]|page=G7}}</ref><ref name="almost">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,535694,00.html|title=Almost Famous|last=Kirschling|first=Gregory|date=November 7, 2003|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|page=1|access-date=December 16, 2008|archive-date=December 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228232142/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,535694,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> His surname originates in [[Denmark]], where his paternal great-great-grandparents were born; it is pronounced {{IPA|da|ˈsɑːsɡɔˀ|}} in Danish.<ref name=genal1/>

Sarsgaard was raised a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]<ref name="time">{{cite news|url=http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/hot-seat/58701/peter-sarsgaard|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204130048/http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/hot-seat/58701/peter-sarsgaard|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=The Hot Seat&nbsp;— Peter Sarsgaard|last=Sellers|first=John|date=September 19, 2008|work=[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.about.com/od/gardenstate/a/gardenps072604_2.htm|title=Interview with Peter Sarsgaard|last=Murray|first=Rebecca|work=[[About.com]]|access-date=June 22, 2010|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195114/http://movies.about.com/od/gardenstate/a/gardenps072604_2.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> and served as an [[altar boy]]. His family moved more than 12 times during his childhood, following his father's job.<ref name="Empathist2">{{cite news|first=Lynn|last=Hirschberg|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13sarsgaard.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5088&en=a657c4f3871dfb1f&ex=1289538000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=The Empathist|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 13, 2005|access-date=January 12, 2007}}</ref> At the age of 7, Sarsgaard originally wanted to become a [[Association football|soccer player]] and took up ballet to help improve his coordination.<ref name="Empathist2"/> After suffering several concussions while playing soccer, he gave up the sport and became interested in writing and theater.<ref name="Empathist3" /> He attended [[Fairfield College Preparatory School]], a private [[Jesuit]] boys' school in [[Connecticut]], where he became interested in film.<ref name="Empathist3" />

Following his graduation from Fairfield Prep in 1989, he attended [[Bard College]] in New York for two years before transferring to [[Washington University in St. Louis]] (WashU) in 1991, where he co-founded an [[improvisational theatre|improvisational]] comedy troupe "Mama's Pot Roast".<ref name="Empathist3">{{cite news|first=Lynn|last=Hirschberg, Lyn|date=November 13, 2005|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13sarsgaard.html?pagewanted=3&ei=5088&en=a657c4f3871dfb1f&ex=1289538000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=The Empathist|access-date=January 12, 2007|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=3}}</ref> While at WashU, Sarsgaard began performing in plays in an offshoot of New York's [[Actors Studio]];<ref name="Empathist3" /> His first role was as the servant Laurent in [[Molière]]'s ''[[Tartuffe]]''. In 1993, he graduated with a [[bachelor's degree]] in history and moved to New York.<ref name="Empathist3" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05k.phtml|title=''SNL'' Transcripts: Peter Sarsgaard|date=January 21, 2006|publisher=SNL Transcripts|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref>

==Career==
===1995–1998: Early work===
Sarsgaard branched out with guest roles in television productions filmed in New York City, with ''[[Law & Order]]'' in 1995,<ref name="night out">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E2DE1230F931A35752C1A9659C8B63|title=A Night Out With&nbsp;— Peter Sarsgaard; Round the Loop|last=Lee|first=Linda|date=November 2, 2003|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> and ''[[New York Undercover]]'' (1997) as well as an appearance in the 1997 [[HBO]] special ''[[Subway Stories]]''.<ref name="flying">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-sarsgaard-flying-high/|title=Peter Sarsgaard Flying High|date=September 29, 2005|publisher=[[CBS News]]|work=[[The Early Show]]|author=Morales, Tatiana|access-date=December 18, 2008}}</ref> He appeared in his first film role in ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]'' (1995), where he played a teenager killed by a convict ([[Sean Penn]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960112/REVIEWS/601120301|title=Dead Man Walking|last=Ebert|first=Roger|date=January 12, 1996|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008|archive-date=September 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928084951/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19960112%2FREVIEWS%2F601120301|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A07EFDC1239F93AA15751C1A963958260|title=Film Review; A Condemned Killer And a Crusading Nun|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=December 29, 1995|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref>

In 1995, Sarsgaard made his theatrical debut in the [[Off-Broadway]] production of [[Horton Foote]]'s ''Laura Dennis'', which was directed by [[James Houghton (artistic director)|James Houghton]].<ref name="laura">{{cite news|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=990ceeda103bf937a25750c0a963958260|title=Theater Review; Answers to Questions Best Left Unasked|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=March 14, 1995|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref> [[Ben Brantley]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Mr. Sarsgaard ... emerges as an actor to watch with a performance of breathtaking emotional conviction."<ref name="laura" /> The following year he starred in ''Kingdom of Earth'' opposite [[Cynthia Nixon]] and directed by [[John Cameron Mitchell]].<ref name="plays">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/07carr.html?pagewanted=print&position=|title=Dr. Kinsey's Very Special Colleague|last=Carr|first=David|date=November 7, 2004|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> His performance in the play received favorable reviews among critics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DC1239F935A15755C0A960958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/T/Theater|title=Theater Review; Redeeming A Williams Washout|last=Williams|first=Ben|date=June 26, 1996|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref>

His next film roles were in a series of [[Independent film|independent features]]: ''[[Another Day in Paradise (film)|Another Day in Paradise]]'' (1997), part of an ensemble cast that included [[James Woods]], [[Melanie Griffith]], [[Vincent Kartheiser]], and [[Natasha Gregson Wagner]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/1999/01/29reviewb.html |title=Paradise Lust |last=Seligman |first=Craig |date=January 29, 1999 |work=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=December 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628190906/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/1999/01/29reviewb.html |archive-date=June 28, 2010 }}</ref> and In ''[[Desert Blue]]'' (1998), where he had a supporting role in the film.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1999/06/18/desert-blue/|title=Desert Blue&nbsp;— Movie Review|last=Schwarzbaum|first=Lisa|date=June 18, 1999|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> He received a substantial role in the 1998 film ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'', where he played Raoul, the ill-fated son of [[John Malkovich]]'s dueling Musketeer, Athos.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F03E0D91E30F930A25750C0A96E958260|title=Film Review; L'Etat, It's DiCaprio: C'est le Brat-King|last=Maslin|first=Janet|date=March 13, 1998|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> The film uses characters from [[Alexandre Dumas, père|Alexandre Dumas]]' [[d'Artagnan Romances]], and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of ''[[The Vicomte de Bragelonne]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie980312-4,0,4760955.story |title=The Man in the Iron Mask |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |date=March 13, 1998 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225225115/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie980312-4%2C0%2C4760955.story |archive-date=December 25, 2008 }}</ref> The film received ambivalent reviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-man-in-the-iron-mask|title=Man in the Iron Mask, The (1998): Reviews|date=March 13, 1998|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> but was a success at the box office, earning $182 million worldwide.<ref name="earnings">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=petersarsgaard.htm|title=Peter Saarsgaard Movie Box Office Results|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref>

===1999–2002: Career progression ===
In 1999, Sarsgaard earned critical recognition in [[Kimberly Peirce]]'s ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'', where he was cast as notorious killer John Lotter. The film is based on the real-life story of [[Brandon Teena]], who was raped and murdered in 1993 by Lotter and Tom Nissen after they found out that he was a [[trans man]]. ''Boys Don't Cry'' received overwhelmingly positive acclaim from critics,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/boys-dont-cry|title=Boys Don't Cry (1999): Reviews|date=October 22, 1999|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> and his performance was critically well received. According to ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', "Peter  Sarsgaard ... makes the killer's terrible trajectory not only believable, but grounded in the most mundane clodhopper behavior. He isn't a drooling monster, he's a guy you wouldn't look  twice at a bar or a convenience store."<ref>{{cite journal|first=Jay|last=Carr|title=From The Heartland, A Darkly Poetic 'Boys'|date=October 22, 1999|journal=[[The Boston Globe]]|page=C5}}</ref> A contributor from the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'' wrote "It's a marvelous performance supported ably by ... Sarsgaard as the unpredictable, sociopathic Lotter."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/boysq.shtml|title=Radically disturbing, 'Boys Don't Cry' is a bold cautionary tale|last=Nechak|first=Paula|date=October 29, 1999|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2000 [[Venice Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/22/boys.dont.cry/|title='Boys Don't Cry' filmmaker saw past violence to love|last=Allen|first=Jamie|date=October 22, 1999|publisher=[[CNN|CNN: Showbiz/Movies]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> In regards to his character, as how Sarsgaard made him "likeable, sympathetic even" was because he wanted the audience "to understand why they would hang out with me. If my character wasn't necessarily likable, I wanted him to be charismatic enough that you weren't going to have a dull time if you were with him."<ref>{{cite journal|first=Mark|last=Olsen|title=Peter Sarsgaard|date=March 1, 2001|journal=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]}}</ref> In another interview, Sarsgaard said he felt "empowered" by playing Lotter.<ref>{{cite news|first=Carmody|last=Wilson|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film-tv-features/artfully-creepy-1.1010794|title=Artfully creepy|access-date=March 4, 2010|date=March 4, 2010|work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)]]}}</ref>

His first leading role was in the 2001 feature ''[[The Center of the World]]'', where he plays Richard Longman, a lonely young entrepreneur who skips out on his company's big initial public offering and pays a stripper ([[Molly Parker]]) $10,000 to fly to Las Vegas with him.<ref name="center">{{cite journal|first=A.O.|last=Scott|title=Film Review; Contracting for a Sexual Fantasy, With No Addendum for Emotions|date=April 18, 2001|journal=[[The New York Times]]|page=5}}</ref> The film received average reviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-center-of-the-world|title=Center of the World (2001): Reviews|date=April 18, 2001|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> however, [[A.O. Scott]] of the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'', reported that the performances by both Sarsgaard and Parker "provide a rough grain of authenticity, capturing the blunted affect and aimless neediness of people in their 20s struggling to navigate a world of material abundance and impoverished emotional possibility."<ref name="center" /> Scott concluded in his recap that Sarsgaard made his character "seem like a genuinely nice guy, too innocent to grasp the sleaziness of his bargain with Florence."<ref name="center" />

In 2002, Sarsgaard starred in three films, ''[[K-19: The Widowmaker]]'', ''[[Empire (2002 film)|Empire]]'' and ''[[The Salton Sea (2002 film)|The Salton Sea]]''. In ''K-19: The Widowmaker'', he portrayed a young Russian navy lieutenant Vadim Radchenko, a prototype of [[Boris Korchilov]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/07/19/k19/index1.html |title=K-19: The Widowmaker |last=O'Hehir |first=Andrew |date=July 19, 2002 |work=[[Salon.com]] |page=2 |access-date=December 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230002909/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/07/19/k19/index1.html |archive-date=December 30, 2008 }}</ref> The film's budget cost was $100 million to make,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000902862 |title=National Geographic a natural for Hollywood |last=Thompson |first=Anne |date=April 25, 2005 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233753/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000902862 |archive-date=November 10, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but upon release, it grossed $35 million in the United States and $30 million internationally,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/k19_the_widowmaker/|title=K-19: The Widowmaker|date=July 19, 2002|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> qualifying it as a [[Box office bomb|box office failure]]. His next role was in ''Empire'', a [[crime (genre)|crime]] [[thriller (genre)|thriller]], where he was cast in a supporting role.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2002-12-05-empire_x.htm|title=Violent 'Empire' falls into thug stereotypes|last=Puig|first=Claudia|date=December 5, 2002|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> Sarsgaard played a meth addict in [[D. J. Caruso]]'s ''The Salton Sea''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/04/26/salton_sea/index.html |title=The Salton Sea |last=Taylor |first=Charles |date=April 26, 2002 |work=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=December 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229230059/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/04/26/salton_sea/index.html |archive-date=December 29, 2008 }}</ref> In October 2002, Sarsgaard returned to theater in a New York production of [[Lanford Wilson]]'s ''[[Burn This]]'', where he replaced [[Edward Norton]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2002-12-08-broadway_x.htm|title=For stars, the lights are brighter off-Broadway|last=Gardner|first=Elysa|date=December 8, 2002|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Donald|last=Lyons|title=Hot New Cast Fires Up 'Burn This'|date=December 17, 2002|journal=[[New York Post]]|page=056}}</ref>

===2003–present: Continued success===
2003 marked a significant turning point in Sarsgaard's career when he starred in the feature film ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]''. He depicted journalist [[Charles Lane (journalist)|Charles Lane]], the lead editor of ''[[The New Republic]]''. ''Shattered Glass'' is based on the real events of journalist [[Stephen Glass (reporter)|Stephen Glass]]' career at ''The New Republic'' during the mid-1990s and his fall when his widespread journalistic fraud is exposed. During the film's promotion, Sarsgaard noted his portrayal of Lane: "I just wanted to get his perspective on the actual events. [...] I think that I tried to have some respect for myself and that way you're respecting the real person you're playing. I've done it a number of times. And it's always a little bit confusing. The best thing to do is just to ignore the fact, I think, that you're playing somebody who is a real-life character."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/rs/date/2003-11-16/segment/00|title=CNN Transcripts|date=November 16, 2003|publisher=[[CNN]] Transcripts|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> According to the ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune|San Diego Union-Tribune]]'', "Peter Sarsgaard is appealingly level, a stolid straight-shooter as Lane".<ref>{{cite journal|first=David|last=Elliot|title=Credibility Gap 'Shattered Glass' chronicles a media fraud who shattered all around him|date=November 13, 2003|journal=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|page=Night & Day–6}}</ref> A reviewer from the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' noted that Sarsgaard plays Lane with "great subtlety and grace".<ref name="metromix"/> The newspaper concluded with, "The character doesn't seethe with personal resentment; when he does a slow burn, he conveys a much deeper sense of a man's value system being violated past the breaking point."<ref name="metromix">{{cite news|url=http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/review/movie-review-shattered-glass/158620/content |title=Movie review: 'Shattered Glass' |last=Caro |first=Mark |date=November 6, 2003 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=December 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002024253/http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/review/movie-review-shattered-glass/158620/content |archive-date=October 2, 2011 }}</ref> Sarsgaard's performance in the film earned him his first [[Golden Globe Award]] nomination and an [[Independent Spirit Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29918|title=HFPA&nbsp;— Awards Search|work=[[Golden Globes]] Official Website|access-date=December 16, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225220750/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29918|archive-date=December 25, 2008}}</ref>

Following the success of ''Shattered Glass'', Sarsgaard starred in several roles. In 2004, he starred in the comedy-drama ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'', where he played Mark, the sarcastic best friend to [[Zach Braff]]'s character.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2005/10/04/its-time-peter-sarsgaard-became-star/|title=It's time that Peter Sarsgaard became a star|date=September 30, 2005|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=December 16, 2008|archive-date=December 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225221540/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1112224,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44201-2004Aug5.html|title=Braff, Portman Blossom in 'Garden State'|last=Hornaday|first=Anne|date=August 6, 2004|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> In the same year, Sarsgaard portrayed [[Clyde Martin]], in the biographical film ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]'', a movie about the life of [[Alfred Kinsey]], played by [[Liam Neeson]].<ref name="kinsey">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/12/review.kinsey/index.html|title=Review: 'Kinsey' gripping look at sex, people|last=Clinton|first=Paul|date=November 12, 2004|publisher=[[CNN|CNN: Showbiz/Movies]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> ''Kinsey'' was Sarsgaard's first film role which featured [[nudity|full frontal nudity]].<ref name="kinsey guy">{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-129710035/sex-and-kinsey-guy.html|title=Sex and the Kinsey guy|last=Vary|first=Adam B.|date=March 1, 2005|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|access-date=December 22, 2008}}</ref> Paul Clinton of [[CNN]] reported that Sarsgaard's Clyde Martin "stands out" and "confirms that he's without doubt one of the best character actors of his generation."<ref name="kinsey"/> When asked about his kissing scenes with Neeson in ''Kinsey'', Sarsgaard said:
<blockquote>
It wasn't as hard as, say, running around with all my gear on in ''Jarhead''. I'd rather go for an awkward moment than physical exertion any day. The only thing that I think [male actors] get freaked out about when they have to do something like kiss a guy in a movie—when to their knowledge they're straight—is that they're afraid they're going to be turned on. And if you're not afraid that you're going to be turned on—meaning that you know what you like—then really it's not that hard.<ref name="time"/>
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In 2005, Sarsgaard starred in the drama ''[[The Dying Gaul (film)|The Dying Gaul]]'', where he plays Robert Sandrich, a struggling screenwriter who has written a serious love story about a man and his terminally ill partner.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=7565|title=Suspenseful 'Dying Gaul' falls victim to abrupt ending|last=Morris|first=Wesley|date=November 18, 2005|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> The film received favorable reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-dying-gaul|title=Dying Gaul, The (2005): Reviews|date=November 4, 2005|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> In an interview, Sarsgaard said, he felt like he was playing a character based on [[Craig Lucas]], the director, whom he describes as "elitist in a fun way".<ref name="empathist4"/> Because his character, a screenwriter, is also "elitist," when he sells his soul by compromising his artistic vision, "...the conflict seems bigger. Anyone can sell their soul. Even people with integrity. There's always that temptation to guard against. Which is why it's best to keep as much as possible hidden."<ref name="empathist4">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13sarsgaard.html?pagewanted=4&ei=5088&en=a657c4f3871dfb1f&ex=1289538000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=The Empathist|last=Hirschberg|first=Lynn|date=November 13, 2005|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=4|access-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref>

Also in 2005, he had supporting roles in the suspense thriller films ''[[The Skeleton Key]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/s/skeleton-key.shtml|title=The Skeleton Key|last=Fuchs|first=Cynthia|date=August 12, 2005|magazine=[[PopMatters]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> and [[Robert Schwentke]]'s ''[[Flightplan]]''.<ref name="flight">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/23/review.flightplan/index.html|title=Review: 'Flightplan' flies high|last=Clinton|first=Paul|date=September 23, 2005|publisher=[[CNN|CNN: Showbiz/Movies]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> In the latter film, Sarsgaard played an [[Federal Air Marshal Service|air marshall]], who is ordered to keep guard of [[Jodie Foster]]'s character.<ref name="flight" /> ''Flightplan'' was screened at a special presentation at the 30th annual [[Toronto International Film Festival]] in 2005.<ref name="empathist4" /> Despite the mixed reviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/flightplan|title=Flightplan (2005): Reviews|date=September 23, 2005|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> the film was a financial success, earning $223 million worldwide,<ref name="earnings"/> making it his highest-grossing film to the end of 2008. Sarsgaard's next feature was ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'' (2005), opposite [[Jake Gyllenhaal]].<ref name="Empathist2" /> The movie is based on [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine]] [[Anthony Swofford]]'s 2003 [[Gulf War]] memoir [[Jarhead (book)|of the same name]].<ref name="Empathist2" /><ref name="flying" />

Sarsgaard hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (''SNL'') on January 21, 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E4D9123FF932A15752C0A9609C8B63|title=What's on Tonight|date=January 21, 2006|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}}</ref> In his introductory monolog, he tried to point out that he was a nice guy despite his sometimes macabre roles. Video clips were then played of Sarsgaard scaring the ''SNL'' cast.<ref name="snl"/> One sketch featured the [[severe acute respiratory syndrome]] (SARS) global scare, which was still fresh in many minds, and one of the skits included a promotion for the Peter Sarsgaard "SARS-Guard", a reference to facemasks.<ref name="snl">{{cite episode |title=Peter Sarsgaard/The Strokes|series=Saturday Night Live|network=[[NBC]]|airdate=January 21, 2006 |season=[[Saturday Night Live (Season 31)|31]]|number=595|minutes=90}}</ref>

[[File:Peter Sarsgaard Dark Knight.jpg|thumb|upright|left|220px|Sarsgaard attending the European premiere of ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' in 2008]]
In 2007, he starred in supporting roles in ''[[Year of the Dog (film)|Year of the Dog]]'' and ''[[Rendition (film)|Rendition]]''. ''Year of the Dog'' is a [[dark comedy]] about a lonely middle-aged woman, played by [[Molly Shannon]], who finds that animals are the only beings she can truly rely on. Sarsgaard plays Newt, an androgynous dog trainer, and love interest for Shannon's character.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2007-04-12-year-dog_N.htm|title='Year of the Dog' has its day|last=Puig|first=Claudia|date=April 12, 2007|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref> He starred alongside [[Meryl Streep]], [[Alan Arkin]], [[Reese Witherspoon]], and Jake Gyllenhaal in ''Rendition'', a [[Gavin Hood]]-directed political thriller about the US policy of [[Extraordinary rendition by the United States|extraordinary rendition]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2007/10/19/rendition/ |title=Rendition |last=Zacharek |first=Stephanie |date=October 19, 2007 |work=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106015608/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2007/10/19/rendition |archive-date=November 6, 2009 }}</ref> Viewed as a sex symbol, Sarsgaard was named one of [[Salon.com]]'s Sexiest Man Living in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2007/11/15/sexiest_man/index6.html |title=Sexiest Man Living 2007 |last=Loeb |first=Eryn |date=November 15, 2007 |work=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=February 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802142254/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2007/11/15/sexiest_man/index6.html |archive-date=August 2, 2010 }}</ref> 2008 saw Sarsgaard star in the drama ''[[Elegy (film)|Elegy]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1592425/20080808/story.jhtml|title='Elegy': Alone In The Dark.|last=Loder|first=Kurt|date=August 8, 2008|publisher=[[MTV]] Movie News|access-date=January 5, 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2008-08-07-elegy_N.htm|title='Elegy': A lament for the still-living|last=Puig|first=Claudia|date=August 7, 2008|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> based on a [[Philip Milton Roth|Phillip Roth]] novel, ''[[The Dying Animal]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1830732,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809163404/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1830732,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 9, 2008|title=''Elegy'': Death Becomes Them|last=Schickel|first=Richard|date=August 8, 2008|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> The film received favorable reception among critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/elegy|title=Elegy (2008): Reviews|date=August 8, 2008|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> 

In 2008, Sarsgaard made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s adaptation ''[[The Seagull]]'' alongside [[Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[Mackenzie Crook]] and [[Carey Mulligan]]. In the production, he plays, Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin, a tortured writer who drives a rival to suicide and a young lover to ruin.<ref name="observer">{{cite news|url=http://www.observer.com/2008/style/brooklynite-peter-sarsgard-annoyed-all-hipsters |title=Peter Sarsgaard Wants You To Like Him, But Not the Ass He Plays on Broadway |date=September 30, 2008 |author=Aleksander, Irina |work=[[The New York Observer]] |access-date=December 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230094956/http://www.observer.com/2008/style/brooklynite-peter-sarsgard-annoyed-all-hipsters |archive-date=December 30, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2008-10-02-seagull_N.htm|title='Seagull' fails to take flight on Broadway|last=Gardner|first=Elysa|date=October 2, 2008|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=August 18, 2009}}</ref> For the role, Sarsgaard had been required to speak in a British accent, in which he wanted it to be "less liked by an American audience".<ref name="observer"/> Adam Feldman for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' praised the production but wrote of Sarsgaard's performance, "Some of the Americans struggle—notably Peter Sarsgaard, who plays Trigorin’s passivity so aggressively that his costars have nothing to work against."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/the-seagull-1|title= The Seagull|website= Time Out|date= October 9, 2008|accessdate= September 12, 2023}}</ref>

In 2009, Sarsgaard starred alongside [[Jon Foster]] and [[Sienna Miller]] in the drama ''[[The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (film)|The Mysteries of Pittsburgh]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/mysteriesofpittsburgh,1146073.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108031901/http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/mysteriesofpittsburgh,1146073.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2012|title=The Mysteries of Pittsburgh|last=Zak|first=Dan|date=April 17, 2009|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref> It is an adaptation of [[Michael Chabon]]'s novel of the [[The Mysteries of Pittsburgh|same name]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-caw-paperback-writers9-2008nov09,0,5307517.story|title='The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' by Michael Chabon|first=Richard|last=Rayner|date=November 9, 2008|access-date=February 17, 2010|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> In the movie, Sarsgaard plays Cleveland, the rebellious bisexual boyfriend of Miller's character. ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' premiered at the [[2008 Sundance Film Festival]]. His next film appearance was in the thriller ''[[Orphan (2009 film)|Orphan]]'', where he and [[Vera Farmiga]] play a married couple who lose a baby and adopt a nine-year-old girl, who is not as innocent as she claims to be.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/07/24/orphan_is_creepy_funny_and_appalling/|title=Orphan|last=Burr|first=Ty|date=July 24, 2009|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=July 24, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lvrj.com/neon/44579497.html|title=Summer movie season hits the gas with 'Star Trek,' 'Angels & Demons' among pack leaders|last=Cling|first=Carol|date=May 8, 2009|work=[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]|access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref> Furthermore, in the same year, Sarsgaard starred as David in [[Lone Scherfig]]'s coming of age film ''[[An Education]]''.<ref name="ae">{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/02/emma_thompson_peter_sarsgaard.html|title=Emma Thompson, Peter Sarsgaard Contribute to Nick Hornby's 'Education'|date=February 12, 2008|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/714666--peter-sarsgaard-walked-fine-line-between-sexy-and-creepy|title=Peter Sarsgaard walked fine line between sexy and creepy|date=October 23, 2009|work=[[Toronto Star]]|access-date=October 26, 2009 | first=Peter | last=Howell}}</ref> The role required Sarsgaard to speak in a British accent.<ref name="ae" /> ''An Education'' drew favorable reviews from critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/an-education|title=Education, An|date=October 9, 2009|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=October 26, 2009}}</ref> According to ''Variety'', "Sarsgaard ... marvelously expresses the savoir faire that has such an impact on Jenny [Carey Mulligan]."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939422.html?u=IMDB&p=H2BE&cs=1|title=An Education|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|date=January 21, 2009|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=October 26, 2009}}</ref>
[[File:Green Lantern Comic-Con Panel.jpg|thumb|200px|upright|right|Sarsgaard with the cast of ''Green Lantern'' at the 2010 [[San Diego Comic-Con]].]]
Sarsgaard played Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a country doctor and philosopher, in the [[Classic Stage Company]]'s 2009 off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' in New York City.<ref name="uncle">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/theater/08itzk.html?ex=1249794000&en=af3ab2d157401936&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TH-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M081-ROS-0209-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click|title=Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere|last=Itskoff|first=Dave|date=February 4, 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=1|access-date=February 12, 2009}}</ref><ref name="vanya">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2008/legit/news/gyllenhaal-sarsgaard-join-vanya-1117997230/|title=Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard join 'Vanya'|last=Cox|first=Gordon|date=December 11, 2008|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=December 12, 2008}}</ref> The cast also included [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], [[Mamie Gummer]], [[Denis O'Hare]], and [[George Morfogen]].<ref name="uncle" /><ref name="vanya" /> The production, directed by [[Austin Pendleton]], began previews on January 17 and ended its limited run on March 1.<ref name="uncle" /><ref name="vanya" /> Joe Dziemianowicz of the ''[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]'' gave the production one out of four stars, but complimented his performance, writing that Sarsgaard does a "credible job as the doctor".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_starry_chekhov_revival_is_uncle_vanya_is.html|title=Starry Chekhov revival is 'Uncle Vanya' is 'Clueless'|last=Dziemianowicz|first=Joe|date=February 13, 2009|work=[[Daily News (New York)]]|access-date=February 23, 2009|archive-date=February 15, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215134414/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_starry_chekhov_revival_is_uncle_vanya_is.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] review of ''Uncle Vanya'', John Simon, wrote: "Sarsgaard can't find the right tempi or emphases: shuttling between colorless rattle and silence-studded rallentandos, he fails at both infectious enthusiasm and self-effacing charm."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJsub.SqGPhs&refer=muse|title=Stymied Gyllenhaal, Miscast O'Hare Star in 'Vanya': John Simon |last=Simon|first=John|date=February 13, 2009|publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]]|access-date=March 11, 2009}}</ref>

Sarsgaard played a federal agent in the action comedy film ''[[Knight and Day]]'', released in June 2010, in which he appeared alongside [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Cameron Diaz]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Mick|last=LaSalle|url=https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/7073996.html?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:b1ab9017-2d64-4839-ad02-a4d32f302875|title=Knight and Day is like yin and yang|access-date=June 27, 2010|date=June 22, 2010|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]}}</ref> In May 2010, it was reported that Sarsgaard would star in Chekhov's play ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]''. The production began in January 2011, and Sarsgaard was reunited with ''Uncle Vanya'' director Austin Pendleton.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thielman|first=Sam|date=May 11, 2010|title=Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard to CSC production|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2010/legit/news/gyllenhaal-sarsgaard-to-csc-production-1118019133/|access-date=May 18, 2010}}</ref> In February 2010, it was announced that Sarsgaard had been cast as villain [[Hector Hammond]] in the superhero film ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]''.<ref>{{cite news|first=Scott|last=Collura|url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/106/1067872p1.html|title=Green Lantern's Enemy's Baby's Daddy|access-date=February 9, 2010|date=February 9, 2010|publisher=[[IGN]] Movies}}</ref> The film was released in 2011.<ref name="green">{{cite news |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=February 9, 2010 |title=Tim Robbins plays villain's dad in "Green Lantern" |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6180OQ20100209 |access-date=February 9, 2010 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> He played a supporting role in [[Woody Allen]]'s drama ''[[Blue Jasmine]]'' (2013).<ref name=":1">{{cite web|date=January 8, 2013|title=Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine|url=http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2013/01_13/010813_woody.html|access-date=January 9, 2013|publisher=[[Sony Pictures]]}}</ref> Sarsgaard also appeared in the American TV series ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]'' (2013) as a man on death row perhaps wrongfully convicted for the brutal murder of his wife, a performance which he said included "some of the best acting I have ever done in my life."<ref name=":0">
  {{cite magazine |title=Peter Sarsgaard on 'The Killing,' Death Row and Woody Allen |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/peter-sarsgaard-on-the-killing-death-row-and-woody-allen-20130616 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=February 6, 2014}}</ref> Sarsgaard appeared in a 2015 [[Classic Stage Company]] production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' in the title role.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Isherwood |first=Charles |date=April 16, 2015 |title=Review: 'Hamlet' as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/theater/review-hamlet-as-an-after-party-that-got-out-of-hand.html |access-date=September 12, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He portrayed [[Robert F. Kennedy]] in [[Pablo Larraín]]'s ''[[Jackie (2016 film)|Jackie]]'' (2016).  

Sarsgaard then took a role as Martin Schmidt in the [[Hulu]] limited series ''[[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|The Looming Tower]]'' (2018), earning a nomination for the [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries]]. He returned to television in another Hulu miniseries ''[[Dopesick (miniseries)|Dopesick]]'' (2021) playing Rick Mountcastle, for which he received a [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie]] nomination.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitten |first=Sarah |date=July 12, 2022 |title=Here are the nominees for the major Emmy categories — 'Succession' and 'Ted Lasso' lead the field |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/12/emmys-2022-nominations-led-by-succession-ted-lasso.html |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref> Sarsgaard appeared in ''[[The Lost Daughter (film)|The Lost Daughter]]'' (2021), directed by his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal, and the following year played the role of District Attorney Gil Colson in ''[[The Batman (film)|The Batman]]'' (2022). In 2023, he starred opposite [[Jessica Chastain]] in the [[Michel Franco]] film ''[[Memory (2023 film)|Memory]]'' which premiered at the [[80th Venice International Film Festival]]. Sarsgaard portrayed a man riddled with dementia. He stated, "A lot of time when we see dementia in movies, it's the most extreme stage at the very end and it paralyses us all with fear, and I really didn't want to depict that." For his performance he won the [[Volpi Cup for Best Actor]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230909-peter-sarsgaard-wins-venice-best-actor-for-dementia-portrayal|title= Peter Sarsgaard wins Venice best actor for dementia portrayal|website= France 24|date= September 9, 2023|accessdate= September 12, 2023}}</ref> For his work in the [[Apple TV+]] series ''[[Presumed Innocent (TV series)|Presumed Innocent]]'' (2024), he received a second [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination.

He is a signatory of the [[Film Workers for Palestine]] boycott pledge that was published in September 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Betts |first=Anna |date=2025-09-10 |title=Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/08/film-pledge-israeli-institutions-palestinians |access-date=2025-09-16 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal An Education 2009.jpg|thumb|right|Sarsgaard and [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] at the New York premiere of ''[[An Education]]'' in October 2009]]
In an interview with ''[[The New York Times]]'', Sarsgaard stated that he followed [[Catholicism]], saying: "I like the death-cult aspect of Catholicism. Every religion is interested in death, but Catholicism takes it to a particularly high level. [...] Seriously, in Catholicism, you're supposed to love your enemy. That really impressed me as a kid, and it has helped me as an actor. [...] The way that I view the characters I play is part of my religious upbringing. To abandon curiosity in all personalities, good or bad, is to give up hope in humanity."<ref name="Empathist3" />

Among his most notable romantic relationships, Sarsgaard dated burlesque dancer [[Dita Von Teese]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rock Star Called Hooker-Hirer|date=May 23, 2005|journal=[[New York Post]]|quote=''Kinsey'' star Peter Sarsgaard may be the biggest stud in Hollywood. Dita von Teese&nbsp;... says she first got together with [Marilyn Manson] after she found out her then-boyfriend Sarsgaard was cheating on her with an unidentified supermodel|page=012}}</ref> and model and actress [[Shalom Harlow]].<ref name="night out" /> Early in his film career, he dated photographer [[Malerie Marder]], a close friend from his days attending [[Bard College]],<ref name="Empathist3" /> who had featured Sarsgaard in some of her early work.<ref>{{cite news| first= Elizabeth| last= Hyat |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/arts/art-architeture-seeking-the-naked-truth-and-finding-it-nearby.html|title=Art/Architecture; Seeking the Naked Truth, and Finding It Nearby| access-date= June 27, 2010|date=May 21, 2000|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Sarsgaard began a romantic relationship with actress [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], the sister of his close friend [[Jake Gyllenhaal]], in 2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2003/12/18/2003-12-18_fortune_smiles_on__mona__star.html|title=Fortune Smiles on 'Mona' Star |last= Neumaier|first=Joe|date=December 18, 2008|work=[[Daily News (New York)]]|access-date=December 16, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> In April 2006, they announced their engagement, and on May 2, 2009, they married in a small ceremony in [[Brindisi]], Italy.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1181971,00.html|title=Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard Expecting Baby|last=Hamm|first=Liza|author2=Mark Dagostino|date=April 11, 2006|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=November 18, 2008|archive-date=September 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919012756/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C1181971%2C00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= https://people.com/celebrity/maggie-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsgaard-get-married/|title=Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard Get Married|last=Wihlborg|first=Ulrica|date=May 4, 2009|work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date= May 5, 2009}}</ref> They have two daughters, born in October 2006 and April 2012.<ref>{{cite news|first=Liza|last=Hamm|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1541965,00.html|title=Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard Have a Girl|access-date=September 7, 2008|date=October 9, 2006|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|archive-date=September 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919020143/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C1541965%2C00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/04/30/maggie-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsgaard-welcome-daughter-gloria-ray/|title=Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Welcome Daughter Gloria Ray|date=April 30, 2012|author=Sarah Michaud|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=August 13, 2013|archive-date=February 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207092829/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/04/30/maggie-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsgaard-welcome-daughter-gloria-ray/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Sarsgaard is [[veganism|vegan]], but says he cooks meat for his children.<ref>{{cite news| first= Charles| last= Thorpe| url= http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/collection/peter-sarsgaard-our-kind-of-leading-man-20140731 |title= Peter Sarsgaard: Our Kind of Leading Man| work= [[Men's Journal]] |access-date= August 31, 2014}}</ref>

In June 2013, Sarsgaard and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for [[Chelsea Manning]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/celebrity-bradley-manning-video-93041.html |title=Celeb video: 'I am Bradley Manning'|work= Politico.com| first= Patrick| last= Gavin| date= June 19, 2013| access-date= May 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFkcCh-pCc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/UFFkcCh-pCc| archive-date=October 29, 2021|title=I am Bradley Manning (full HD)|date=June 18, 2013|work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Film===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|- 
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class=unsortable | Notes
!{{tooltip|Refs.|References}}
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]''
| Walter Delacroix
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Szalai |first=Georg |date=2025-07-05 |title=Peter Sarsgaard on Elon Musk's Mars Plans, Going to a "No Kings" Protest, and How "We're All F***ed" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-sarsgaard-elon-musk-mars-no-kings-ai-karlovy-vary-1236306623/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"|1998
| ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]''
| Raoul
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gilbey |first=Ryan |date=2022-02-25 |title=Peter Sarsgaard: 'Have we reached superhero saturation? Probably' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/25/peter-sarsgaard-have-we-reached-superhero-saturation-probably |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Minor Details]]''
| Scott
| 
|
|-
| ''[[Desert Blue]]''
| Billy Baxter
| 
|
|-
| ''[[Another Day in Paradise (film)|Another Day in Paradise]]''
| Ty
|
|
|-
| 1999 
| ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]''
| John Lotter
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/Another-Day-in-Paradise/318903/ |title=Another Day in Paradise (1998) |access-date=2025-07-28 |via=www.blu-ray.com}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2000 
| ''[[The Cell (film)|The Cell]]''
| John Tracy
| Uncredited
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Damon |date=2025-07-07 |title=Peter Sarsgaard On Awards, Elon Musk, And Dancing In His New Film 'The Bride': "It's About The Monster In All Of Us" – Karlovy Vary Film Festival |url=https://deadline.com/2025/07/peter-sarsgaard-neuromancer-the-bride-karlovy-vary-1236450734/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Housebound (2000 film)|Housebound]]''
| Tom
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2001
| ''[[The Center of the World]]''
| Richard Longman
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Dennis |date=2001-04-17 |title=The Center of the World |url=https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/the-center-of-the-world-1200467786/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''Bacon Wagon''
| Cowboy Zombie Victim
| Short film 
|
|-
| rowspan="4"|2002
| ''[[Empire (2002 film)|Empire]]''
| Jack
| 
|
|-
| ''[[The Salton Sea (2002 film)|The Salton Sea]]''
| Jimmy the Finn
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Movie Review: The Salton Sea |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2002-06-28/the-salton-sea/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.austinchronicle.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[K-19: The Widowmaker]]''
| LT Vadim Radchenko 
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=K-19: The Widowmaker movie review (2002) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/k-19-the-widowmaker-2002 |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Unconditional Love (2002 film)|Unconditional Love]]''
| Window Washer
| 
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2003
| ''[[Death of a Dynasty]]''
| Brendon III
|
|
|-
| ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]''
| [[Charles Lane (journalist)|Charles "Chuck" Lane]]
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-04 |title=Czech international film festival opens with honors for actors Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/czech-international-film-festival-opens-144947010.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-CA}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2004
| ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]''
| Mark
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heath |first=Larry |date=2025-03-30 |title=What happened at the Garden State 20th Anniversary Concert in Los Angeles (and how you can watch the whole thing!) |url=https://www.theaureview.com/music/what-happened-at-the-garden-state-20th-anniversary-concert-los-angeles/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The AU Review |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]''
| [[Clyde Martin]]
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tunzelmann |first=Alex von |date=2010-07-08 |title=Kinsey: No sexing-up required |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/08/kinsey-reel-history |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"|2005 
| ''[[The Dying Gaul (film)|The Dying Gaul]]''
| Robert Sandrich
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title='Gaul' succumbs to contrivance movie review (2005) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-dying-gaul-2005 |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Skeleton Key]]'' 
| Luke Marshall
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Skeleton Key |url=https://ew.com/article/2005/04/21/skeleton-key-2/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Flightplan]]''
| Gene Carson
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=BW |title=Flightplan |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/flightplan-1 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240920214254/https://www.timeout.com/movies/flightplan-1 |archive-date=2024-09-20 |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=Time Out Worldwide |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]''
| Cpl. Alan Troy
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenbloom |first=Alli |date=2024-06-06 |title=Brothers-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard always put family first, at home and on set |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/entertainment/jake-gyllenhaal-peter-sarsgaard-presumed-innocent |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2007
| ''[[Year of the Dog (film)|Year of the Dog]]''
| Newt
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=John |date=2007-01-21 |title=Year of the Dog |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/year-of-the-dog-1200511020/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Rendition (film)|Rendition]]''
| Alan Smith
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Trevor |title=Rendition |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/rendition |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240723145953/https://www.timeout.com/movies/rendition |archive-date=2024-07-23 |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=Time Out Worldwide |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2008
| ''[[Elegy (film)|Elegy]]''
| Kenneth Kepesh
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stein |first=Ruthe |date=2008-08-08 |title=Movie review: Don Juan acts his age in 'Elegy' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Movie-review-Don-Juan-acts-his-age-in-Elegy-3201652.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230207035801/https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Movie-review-Don-Juan-acts-his-age-in-Elegy-3201652.php |archive-date=2023-02-07 |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=SFGATE |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (film)|The Mysteries of Pittsburgh]]''
| Cleveland Arning
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-04-10 |title=A Stockbroker in Training Has Turns in His Journey (Published 2009) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/movies/10pitt.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"|2009
| ''[[An Education]]''
| David Goldman
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2009-10-29 |title=An Education |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/29/an-education-review |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[In the Electric Mist]]''
| Elrod Sykes
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Press |first=Peter Brunette,The Associated |date=2009-02-08 |title=Film Review: In the Electric Mist |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/film-review-electric-mist-92867/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Orphan (2009 film)|Orphan]]''
| John Coleman
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Nathan |date=2009-07-23 |title=An 'Orphan' With Issues (And A Big, Bad Secret) |url=https://www.npr.org/2009/07/23/106708963/an-orphan-with-issues-and-a-big-bad-secret |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Knight and Day]]''
| John Fitzgerald
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Powers |first=John |date=2010-06-23 |title=Knight and Day |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/knight-and-day |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-	
| 2011
| ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]''
| [[Hector Hammond|Dr. Hector Hammond]]
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="green" />
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Robot & Frank]]''
| Robot (voice)
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2013-03-07 |title=Robot & Frank – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/07/robot-and-frank-review |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"|2013
| ''[[Lovelace (film)|Lovelace]]''
| [[Chuck Traynor]]
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=TODAY |first=Bryan Alexander, USA |title=Peter Sarsgaard gets emotional at 'Lovelace' premiere |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/01/24/peter-sarsgaard-lovelace/1860825/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Very Good Girls]]''
| Fitzsimmons
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-25 |title=Very Good Girls Movie Review |url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/very-good-girls-movie-review |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Nylon |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Night Moves (2013 film)|Night Moves]]''
| Harmon
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2014-08-28 |title=Night Moves review – Jesse Eisenberg makes a convincingly numb dam-buster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/28/night-moves-review-jesse-eisenberg |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Blue Jasmine]]''
| Dwight Westlake
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carlson |first=Erin |date=2013-07-26 |title='Blue Jasmine': Cate Blanchett and Peter Sarsgaard on Working With Woody Allen (Video) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/blue-jasmine-cate-blanchett-peter-594124/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Pawn Sacrifice]]''
| [[William Lombardy]]
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jagernauth |first=Kevin |date=2014-09-07 |title=TIFF Review: 'Pawn Sacrifice' Starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard & Michael Stuhlbarg |url=https://theplaylist.net/tiff-review-pawn-sacrifice-starring-tobey-maguire-liev-schreiber-peter-sarsgaard-michael-stuhlbarg-20140907/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Playlist |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2015
| ''[[Experimenter (film)|Experimenter]]''
| [[Stanley Milgram]]
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoffman |first=Jordan |date=2015-01-26 |title=Sundance 2015 review: Experimenter – Peter Sarsgaard will make you a monster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/26/sundance-2015-review-the-experimenter-milgram-experiment-obedience |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Black Mass (film)|Black Mass]]''
| Brian Halloran
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/19/peter-sarsgaard-joins-black-mass-cast-as-a-favor "Peter Sarsgaard joins ''Black Mass'' as a favor"], IGN.com; accessed December 8, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Peter Sarsgaard is brilliant as a nervy cokehead in this Black Mass interrogation scene |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/black-mass-peter-sarsgaard-is-brilliant-as-a-nervy-cokehead-in-this-interrogation-scene-a6740796.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220709112453/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/black-mass-peter-sarsgaard-is-brilliant-as-a-nervy-cokehead-in-this-interrogation-scene-a6740796.html |archive-date=2022-07-09 |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"|2016
| ''[[Jackie (2016 film)|Jackie]]''
| [[Robert F. Kennedy]]
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Page-Kirby |first=Kristen |date=2016-12-08 |title=Peter Sarsgaard discusses his role as Bobby Kennedy in 'Jackie' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/12/08/peter-sarsgaard-discusses-his-role-as-bobby-kennedy-in-jackie/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)|The Magnificent Seven]]''
| Bartholomew Bogue
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lincoln |first=Kevin |date=2016-09-23 |title=Peter Sarsgaard's Terrific Magnificent Seven Villain Is the Latest in a Long Line of Bonkers Bad Guys |url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/peter-sarsgaard-magnificent-seven-villain.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Vulture |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Loving Pablo]]''
| Shepard
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kiang |first=Jessica |date=2017-10-02 |title='Loving Pablo' Is A Trashy, Cult Movie In The Making [Review] |url=https://theplaylist.net/loving-pablo-review-20171002/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Playlist |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2018
| ''[[The Lie (2018 film)|The Lie]]''
| Jay Logan
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=2020-10-07 |title='The Lie' Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King Are a Conspiring Father and Daughter in the Rare Blumhouse Thriller That's Not a Horror Film |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/the-lie-review-peter-sarsgaard-1234793750/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"|2019
| ''[[The Sound of Silence (2019 film)|The Sound of Silence]]''
| Peter Lucian
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-09-12 |title='The Sound of Silence' Review: Plenty to Hear, but What Does It Mean? (Published 2019) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/movies/the-sound-of-silence-review.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Mr Jones (2019 film)|Mr Jones]]''
| [[Walter Duranty]]
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-25 |title=How Peter Sarsgaard Took on 'Mr. Jones' and His 'Intense' Gig in 'The Batman' |url=https://observer.com/2020/06/peter-sarsgaard-the-batman-mr-jones-interview/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Human Capital (2019 film)|Human Capital]]''
| Quint Manning
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web |last=Hunter |first=Allan |date=2019-09-06 |title='Human Capital': Toronto Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/human-capital-toronto-review/5142664.article |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Screen }}</ref>
|-
| 2020
| ''[[Best Summer Ever]]''
| Camera Man
| Also executive producer
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=David |title='Best Summer Ever' is a feel-good musical and a big win for disability inclusion |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2021/04/27/best-summer-ever-celebrates-disability-inclusion-film/7358125002/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"|2021
| ''[[The Lost Daughter (film)|The Lost Daughter]]''
| Professor Hardy
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vujić |first=Katja |date=2021-12-27 |title=Peter Sarsgaard's Literary Fixations |url=https://www.thecut.com/2021/12/peter-sarsgaard-lost-daughter.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Cut |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Guilty (2021 film)|The Guilty]]''
| Henry Fisher (voice)
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Verhoeven |first=Beatrice |date=2020-11-13 |title=Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough Join Jake Gyllenhaal in 'The Guilty' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/peter-sarsgaard-riley-keough-join-jake-gyllenhaal-the-guilty/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Survivor (2021 film)|The Survivor]]''
| Emory Anderson
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2024-02-22 |title=Memory review – survivors grapple with an unstable past in a delicate, painful duet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/06/memory-review-jessica-chastain-peter-sarsgaard-michel-franco |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
| 2022
| ''[[The Batman (film)|The Batman]]''
| Gil Colson
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=itp_wpadmin |date=2019-12-08 |title=Peter Sarsgaard has joined the cast of the Robert Pattinson-Batman movie {{!}} Esquire Middle East – The Region's Best Men's Magazine |url=https://www.esquireme.com/culture/film-and-tv/41752-peter-sarsgaard-has-joined-the-cast-of-the-robert-pattinson-batman-movie |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.esquireme.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2023
| ''[[Pet Shop Days]]''
| TBA
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grierson |first1=Tim |last2=Critic |first2=Senior US |date=2023-09-03 |title='Pet Shop Days': Venice Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/pet-shop-days-venice-review/5185009.article |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Screen }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Memory (2023 film)|Memory]]''
| Saul
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chang |first=Justin |date=2024-01-05 |title=Two strangers grapple with hazy 'Memory' in this unsettling film |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222869886/memory-review-jessica-chastain-peter-sarsgaard |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Coup!]]''
| Floyd Monk
|
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-08-01 |title='Coup!' Review: Pandemonium in a Pandemic — No, Not That One |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/movies/coup-review.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2024
| ''[[September 5 (film)|September 5]]''
|  [[Roone Arledge]]
| 
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>[https://deadline.com/2024/08/1972-olympics-massacre-september-5-venice-film-festival-1236050035/ Breaking Baz: ‘September 5’ Vividly Recalls Tragedy Of The 1972 Olympics Massacre & Jim McKay’s Haunting Announcement, “They’re All Gone” — Venice Film Festival]</ref>
|-
| 2026
| {{pending film|[[The Bride!]]}}
| TBA
| Post-production
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Damon |date=2025-07-07 |title=Peter Sarsgaard On Awards, Elon Musk, And Dancing In His New Film 'The Bride': "It's About The Monster In All Of Us" – Karlovy Vary Film Festival |url=https://deadline.com/2025/07/peter-sarsgaard-neuromancer-the-bride-karlovy-vary-1236450734/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| TBA
| {{pending film|[[Road House 2 (upcoming film)|Road House 2]]}}
| TBA
| Filming
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=November 6, 2025 |title=Peter Sarsgaard & Rob Delaney Join ‘Road House 2’ |url=https://deadline.com/2025/11/road-house-2-adds-peter-sarsgaard-rob-delaney-1236608359/ |access-date=November 6, 2025 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>
|}

{{pending films key}}

===Television===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class=unsortable | Notes
!{{tooltip|Refs.|References}}
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Law & Order]]''
| Josh Strand
| Episode: "Paranoia"
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[New York Undercover]]''
| Donald Jones
| Episode: "School's Out"
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Subway Stories|Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground]]''
| Boy #1
| Television movie
|
|-
| 1999
| ''Freak City''
| Cal Jackson
| Television movie
|
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Cracker (American TV series)|Cracker]]''
| Spencer Trent
| Episode: "The Club"
|
|-
| 2005 
| ''[[Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony]]''
| Himself (cameo)
| Web series
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
| Himself (host)
| Episode: "Peter Sarsgaard/[[The Strokes]]"
|
|-
| 2010
| ''Saturday Night Live''
| Boogerman
| Episode: "[[Amy Poehler]]/[[Katy Perry]]"
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]''
| Ray Seward
| 10 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title='The Killing': Peter Sarsgaard on Seward's death, being called creepy |url=https://ew.com/article/2013/07/29/peter-sarsgaard-the-killing-postmortem/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2015 
| ''[[The Slap (American TV series)|The Slap]]''
| Hector Apostolou
| Miniseries; 8 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keveney |first=Bill |title='Slap' will cause ruckus on NBC |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/01/16/nbc-miniseries-the-slap-peter-sarsgaard-thandie-newton/21887393/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2017 
| ''[[Wormwood (miniseries)|Wormwood]]''
| [[Frank Olson]]
| Miniseries; 6 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-15 |title='Wormwood' Star Peter Sarsgaard on the Conspiracy Theories in Errol Morris's Timely New Netflix Show |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/peter-sarsgaard-wormwood-netflix-errol-morris-interview |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=W Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2018
| ''[[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|The Looming Tower]]''
| Martin Schmidt
| Miniseries; 10 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-17 |title=Peter Sarsgaard couldn't turn his back on 'The Looming Tower' and the issues behind 9/11 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-st-peter-sarsgaard-20180517-story.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2020
| ''[[Interrogation (TV series)|Interrogation]]''
| Det. David Russell
| 10 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=2020-11-05 |title='Interrogation': Peter Sarsgaard Drama Canceled At CBS All Access |url=https://deadline.com/2020/11/interrogation-peter-sarsgaard-canceled-cbs-all-access-1234609409/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2020
| ''[[Homemade (TV series)|Homemade]]''
| Frank
| Episode: "Penelope"
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riley |first=Jenelle |date=2023-11-24 |title=Peter Sarsgaard on 'Memory' and Playing a Man with Dementia: 'Acting Is Easy When It's Going Well' |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/peter-sarsgaard-memory-dementia-1235805961/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2021
| ''[[Dopesick (miniseries)|Dopesick]]''
| Rick Mountcastle
| Miniseries
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Rick |date=2020-09-09 |title=Peter Sarsgaard Joins Michael Keaton in Hulu's 'Dopesick' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/peter-sarsgaard-joins-michael-keaton-in-hulus-dopesick-4057047/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Presumed Innocent (TV series)|Presumed Innocent]]''
| Tommy Molto
| 8 episodes
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Sarsgaard Confirms He Won't Return for Presumed Innocent Season 2, Says He's 'Not Really Interested in Sequels' |url=https://people.com/peter-sarsgaard-is-not-interested-in-returning-for-presumed-innocent-season-2-8690531 |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=People.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| TBA
| {{Pending film|[[Neuromancer (TV series)|Neuromancer]]}}
| John Ashpool
| Upcoming series
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Otterson |first=Joe |date=2025-03-13 |title='Neuromancer' Apple TV+ Series Casts Peter Sarsgaard (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/neuromancer-apple-tv-series-cast-peter-sarsgaard-1236336245/ |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|}

===Theatre===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Venue
! class=unsortable | {{tooltip|Refs.|References}}
|-
|1995
|''[[Horton Foote|Laura Dennis]]''
|Harvey Griswold
|[[Signature Theatre Company (New York City)|Signature Theatre]]
|
|-
|1996
|''[[The Seven Descents of Myrtle|Kingdom of Earth]]''
| Performer
|[[Greenwich House]]
|
|-
|2002
|''[[Burn This]]''
|Pale
|[[Union Square Theatre]]
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/burn-this-re-ignites-with-shue-and-sarsgaard-nov.-20-109677 |title=Burn This Re-Ignites With Shue and Sarsgaard Nov. 20 |magazine=Playbill |date=November 20, 2002 |access-date=December 9, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|2008
|''[[The Seagull]]''
|Boris Trigorin
|[[Walter Kerr Theatre]]
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/theater/reviews/03seag.html?pagewanted=all |title=Thwarted Souls' Broken Wings |magazine=Deadline.com |date=October 3, 2008 |first=Ben |last=Brantley |access-date=December 9, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|2009
|''[[Uncle Vanya]]''
|Astrov/Mikhail Lvovich
|[[Classic Stage Company]]
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/theater/reviews/13vany.html |title=Provincial Russians, Getting Very Physical |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 12, 2009 |first=Ben |last=Brantley |access-date=December 9, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|2011
|''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]''
|Vershinin
|Classic Stage Company
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/theater/reviews/04three.html?pagewanted=all |title=Russian Ennui, American Idiom |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 3, 2011 |first=Ben |last=Brantley |access-date=December 9, 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|2015
|''[[Hamlet]]''
|[[Prince Hamlet|Hamlet]]
|Classic Stage Company
|style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/theater/classic-stage-company-downtown-celebrity-magnet.html |title=Where Big Stars and Space Heaters Mix |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 5, 2015 |first=Eric |last=Grodeb |access-date=January 5, 2015 }}</ref>
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Work
!Result
!{{tooltip|Refs.|References}}
|-
| 2000 || [[St. Louis International Film Festival]] || Emerging Actor Award || N/A || {{won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="7" | 2003 || [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor || rowspan="19" | ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]''  || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Village Voice Film Poll]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Seattle Film Critics Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[San Francisco Film Critics Circle]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards]] || Best Supporting Performance – Male || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="15" | 2004 || [[Independent Spirit Awards]] || Best Supporting Male || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film|Chlotrudis Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Chicago Film Critics Association Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival|Las Palmas Film Festival]] || Best Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics|National Society of Film Critics Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Online Film Critics Society Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| Online Film & Television Association || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Golden Globe Awards]] || [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]] || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[International Cinephile Society]] || Best Supporting Actor || {{no|2nd place}}
|
|-
| [[Stockholm International Film Festival]] || Best Actor || rowspan="2" | ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'' || {{won}}
|
|-
| Golden Schmoes Awards || Best Supporting Actor of the Year || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Satellite Awards]] || Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Drama || rowspan="8"| ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="11" | 2005 || [[Critics' Choice Awards]] ||  Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Glitter Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{won}}
|
|-
| Independent Spirit Awards || Best Supporting Male || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Online Film Critics Society Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Chlotrudis Awards || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Online Film & Television Association || Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Satellite Awards || [[9th Golden Satellite Awards|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]] || ''[[Garden State (film)|Garden State]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Drama || rowspan="2" | ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association ||  Best Supporting Actor || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Women's Image Network Awards]] || Actor in Film || ''[[Flightplan]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
|2009
| [[Alliance of Women Film Journalists]] || Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction <br/> <small>''(shared with [[Carey Mulligan]])''</small> || rowspan="3" | ''[[An Education]]'' || {{won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2010
| [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]] || [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture|Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture]] || {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Santa Barbara International Film Festival]] || Cinema Vanguard Award || {{won}}
|
|-
| 2013
| [[Satellite Awards]] || [[Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film|Best Supporting Actor – Television]] || rowspan="3" | ''[[The Killing (American TV series)|The Killing]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|2014 || [[Critics' Choice Television Award]]s || [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series|Best Supporting Actor – Drama Series]]  || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Gold Derby Awards]] || Best Supporting Actor – Drama || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Ensemble Cast || ''[[Blue Jasmine]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2015 || [[Gotham Awards]] || rowspan="2" | Best Actor || rowspan="2" | ''[[Experimenter (film)|Experimenter]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| Village Voice Film Poll || {{no|4th place}}
|
|-
| 2019 || Critics' Choice Television Awards || [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries|Best Supporting Actor – Limited Series]] || ''[[The Looming Tower (miniseries)|The Looming Tower]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| 2021 || [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] || [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie]] || ''[[Dopesick (miniseries)|Dopesick]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
| 2023 || [[80th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]] || [[Volpi Cup for Best Actor]] || ''[[Memory (2023 film)|Memory]]'' || {{won}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2025 || [[59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival|Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]] || colspan="2"|Festival President's Award || {{honoured}} || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/karlovy-vary-film-festival-honors-stellan-skarsgard-1235135221/ |title=Karlovy Vary to Tribute Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard|first=Anne|last=Thompson|date=June 25, 2025|access-date=June 25, 2025|website= [[IndieWire]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| Primetime Emmy Awards || Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie || ''[[Presumed Innocent (TV series)|Presumed Innocent]]'' || {{nom}}
|
|-
|align="center" colspan=5| {{small|(Source:<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0765597/awards IMDb.com]</ref>)}}
|
|}

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Charaipotra, Sona. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080320013307/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,780249,00.html Celebrity Q&A&nbsp;– Peter Sarsgaard]". ''[[People (magazine)|People]]''. November 12, 2004. Accessed February 23, 2009.
*Nechak, Paula. "[http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/225986_sarsgaard27.html A moment with ... Peter Sarsgaard, actor]". ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''. May 27, 2005. Accessed December 18, 2008.
*Moss, Corey. "[https://archive.today/20130129043522/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1513137/20051107/story.jhtml Peter Sarsgaard 'Dying' For Diverse Roles]". MTV Movie News. November 7, 2005. Accessed December 22, 2005.
*Moore, Roger. "[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2002616674_sarsgaard11.html Intense performances are Peter Sarsgaard's hallmark]". ''[[The Seattle Times]]''. November 11, 2005. Accessed December 18, 2008.
*Robertson, Campbell. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/nyregion/02bold.html Also, They All Swirled Counterclockwise]". ''[[The New York Times]]''. March 3, 2006. Accessed December 17, 2008.
*Aleksander, Irina. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081230093319/http://www.observer.com/2008/who-s-who-charity-new-york-s-most-powerful-philanthropic-boards Who's Who in Charity: New York's Most Powerful Philanthropic Boards]". ''The New York Observer''. April 1, 2008. Accessed December 17, 2008.
*Robinson, Dorothy. "[http://www.metro.us/us/article/2009/04/10/03/3954-72/index.xml The 'Mysteries' of Peter]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}". ''[[Metro New York]]''. April 10, 2009. Accessed April 11, 2009.
*Vineyard, Jennifer. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120406110952/http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2009/07/peter-sarsgaard-interview/ Q&A - Peter Sarsgaard Caught in Orphan's Parent Trap]". AMC. July 22, 2009. Accessed July 22, 2009.
*Morfoot, Addie. "[https://variety.com/2009/film/awards/sarsgaard-helps-foster-education-1118012335/ Sarsgaard helps foster 'Education']{{-"}}. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. December 7, 2009. Accessed December 8, 2009.

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