Biography
Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco, where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were spent with his mother in New York.
He made his acting debut when he was ten years old, alongside his mother, and later attended J Eugene McAteer High School in a program called SOTA. While still in high school, he got his first big break when he appeared in the independent film Clownhouse (1989). The plot revolved around three escaped mental patients who dressed up as clowns and terrorized three brothers home alone--Sam played the eldest of the brothers. His next big break was supposed to have come when he was slated to star in a short-lived NBC TV-series called Dream Street (1989), but he was soon fired.
After graduating from high school, Sam returned to New York for good and for two years he had private training at the William Esper Acting Studio. During this period he appeared in a variety of roles, such as the ABC Afterschool Specials (1972): Over the Limit (1990) (TV) and HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992): Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story (Season 1 Episode 7: 15 March 1993); the head thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); and a guest-star turn in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Law & Order (1990), while working a string of regular day jobs and performing in plays.
His performances in The Green Mile (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999) wowed audiences and critics alike with his chameleon-like performances as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter.
More recently, he appeared in another string of mainstream films, most notably as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000) and as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), while continuing to perform in smaller independent movies. After more than ten years in the business, Sam has earned his success. In 2018, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as a troubled police deputy in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
Filmography
all 131
Movies 108
self 24
TV Shows 23
Voice 8
Producer 3
Director 1
IF (2024)
Argylle (2024)
See How They Run (2022)
The Last Movie Stars (2022)
Maraschino Ruby (2022)
The Bad Guys (2022)
What If...? (2021)
No Longer Suitable For Use (2021)
Sweet Thing (2020)
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020)
Trolls World Tour (2020)
Richard Jewell (2019)
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Fosse/Verdon (2019)
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Vice (2018)
Blue Iguana (2018)
Blaze (2018)
The Origins of Ebbing (2018)
Mute (2018)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
The Dark of Night (2017)
Axis (2017)
Mr. Right (2016)
F is for Family (2015)
Don Verdean (2015)
Digging for Fire (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Poltergeist (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
Laggies (2014)
Loitering with Intent (2014)
Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
Take Care (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Showing Up (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014)
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
A Case of You (2013)
Schooled: The Price of College Sports (2013)
A Single Shot (2013)
Drunk History (2013)
The Way Way Back (2013)
Trust Me (2013)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
The Sitter (2011)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Gettysburg (2011)
Conviction (2010)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
F--k (2010)
Everybody's Fine (2009)
Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
G-Force (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Moon (2009)
The Winning Season (2009)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Choke (2008)
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw (2008)
Woman In Burka (2008)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Snow Angels (2007)
Joshua (2007)
Domino (2005)
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
Nobody Wants Your Film (2005)
Robin's Big Date (2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Unscripted (2005)
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Matchstick Men (2003)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
13 Moons (2002)
Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Heist (2001)
Made (2001)
BigLove (2001)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Walking the Mile (2000)
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile (2000)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The Green Mile (1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Jerry and Tom (1998)
Celebrity (1998)
Safe Men (1998)
Lawn Dogs (1997)
Subway Stories (1997)
Drunks (1997)
Prince Street (1997)
Arresting Gena (1997)
Box of Moonlight (1996)
Basquiat (1996)
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1996)
Mercy (1995)
Glory Daze (1995)
Somebody to Love (1994)
NYPD Blue (1993)
In the Soup (1992)
Light Sleeper (1992)
Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992)
Happy Hell Night (1992)
Jack and His Friends (1992)
Strictly Business (1991)
Law & Order (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Clownhouse (1989)
The Equalizer (1985)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
The Oscars (1953)
A Guy Walks Into a Bar
The Heart
The Adventures of Drunky
Untitled Gore Verbinski Project
Gettysburg
Untitled Martin McDonagh Project
The Bad Guys 2
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Project X
The Smack
Petersburg Carousel
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1968-11-05 (55 years old)
Birth NameSamuel Rockwell
Birth PlaceDaly City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles County, United States of America
Also Known AsСэм Рокуэлл, 샘 록웰, סם רוקוול, Сем Роквелл
AwardsSilver Bear, Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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