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Sam Rockwell

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5.0

  • 1968 - Present Day

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. After a few smaller appearances in films such as Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998) and the modern version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), in which he played Francis Flute, he had larger roles in two of the bigger hit movies to emerge: The Green Mile (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999), wowing 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).

Homepage: https://pepecine.bz

Birthday: 1968-11-05

Born At: Daly City, California

Casted In:

The Green Mile
497
Galaxy Quest
926
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1498
Charlie's Angels
4327
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4512
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
4912
Joshua
5956
Matchstick Men
7270
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7453
Welcome to Collinwood
9260
Celebrity
9466
Iron Man 2
10138
Heist
11088
Frost/Nixon
11499
Last Exit to Brooklyn
12774
Choke
13973
Snow Angels
14054
Safe Men
16155
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death Of An Outlaw
17171
Moon
17431
G-Force
19585
Gentlemen Broncos
22820
Clownhouse
25756
Everybody's Fine
26171
Glory Daze
26626
Happy Hell Night
30519
Box of Moonlight
31146
Light Sleeper
36351
The Winning Season
44750
Conviction
45094
Strictly Business
45147
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
45485
Piccadilly Jim
48643
Cowboys & Aliens
49849
In the Soup
52936
The Sitter
57431
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
67365
Jerry and Tom
76891
Seven Psychopaths
86838
Drunks
116844
Mercy
125654
The Way Way Back
147773
Better Living Through Chemistry
157099
A Single Shot
159932
A Case of You
174316
Trust Me
174343
Robin's Big Date
194758
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground
209802
Schooled: The Price of College Sports
239155
Poltergeist
243688
Laggies
244264
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
253980
Showing Up
256559
Loitering with Intent
261823
Nobody Wants Your Film
275763
Richard Jewell
292011
Digging for Fire
295490
Don Verdean
309298
Mr. Right
333385
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
359940
Woman Walks Ahead
396373
Mute
401371
Vice
429197
Trolls World Tour
446893
The Best of Enemies
458131
Blue Iguana
471429
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