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Sam Rockwell‌

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Birthday

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Popularity

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Sam Rockwell

Daly City, California, USA

Sam Rockwell

Daly City, California, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1968-11-05

Popularity

star24.3

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).

Movie Credits

Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest‌
star7.1
calendar 1999

The Green Mile

The Green Mile‌
star8.5
calendar 1999

Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2‌
star6.8
calendar 2010

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‌
star6.7
calendar 1990

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels‌
star5.8
calendar 2000

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford‌
star7.0
calendar 2007

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind‌
star6.7
calendar 2002

Heist

Heist‌
star6.3
calendar 2001

Gentlemen Broncos

Gentlemen Broncos‌
star5.7
calendar 2009

Joshua

Joshua‌
star5.7
calendar 2007

Happy Hell Night

Happy Hell Night‌
star4.7
calendar 1992

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy‌
star6.7
calendar 2005

Box of Moonlight

Box of Moonlight‌
star6.8
calendar 1996

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon‌
star7.3
calendar 2008

Matchstick Men

Matchstick Men‌
star7.0
calendar 2003

Untitled Martin McDonagh Project

Untitled Martin McDonagh Project‌
star0.0
calendar

Celebrity

Celebrity‌
star6.0
calendar 1998

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn‌
star6.4
calendar 1989

Welcome to Collinwood

Welcome to Collinwood‌
star6.1
calendar 2002

Glory Daze

Glory Daze‌
star5.1
calendar 1995

Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine‌
star6.8
calendar 2009

Lawn Dogs

Lawn Dogs‌
star7.2
calendar 1997

Choke

Choke‌
star6.1
calendar 2008

Snow Angels

Snow Angels‌
star6.4
calendar 2007

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper‌
star6.7
calendar 1992

The Winning Season

The Winning Season‌
star6.4
calendar 2009

Safe Men

Safe Men‌
star5.6
calendar 1998

Conviction

Conviction‌
star7.1
calendar 2010

Strictly Business

Strictly Business‌
star5.4
calendar 1991

Moon

Moon‌
star7.6
calendar 2009

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die‌
star0.0
calendar

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim‌
star6.3
calendar 2004

Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens‌
star5.6
calendar 2011

G-Force

G-Force‌
star5.5
calendar 2009

Jerry and Tom

Jerry and Tom‌
star6.1
calendar 1998

The Sitter

The Sitter‌
star5.6
calendar 2011

Gettysburg

Gettysburg‌
star5.8
calendar 2011

Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths‌
star6.8
calendar 2012

Mercy

Mercy‌
star6.5
calendar 1995

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile‌
star7.0
calendar 2000

Drunks

Drunks‌
star3.3
calendar 1997

The Way Way Back

The Way Way Back‌
star7.1
calendar 2013

Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry‌
star5.9
calendar 2014

A Single Shot

A Single Shot‌
star5.7
calendar 2013

IF

IF‌
star7.3
calendar 2024

Robin's Big Date

Robin's Big Date‌
star6.0
calendar 2005

A Case of You

A Case of You‌
star5.6
calendar 2013

Trust Me

Trust Me‌
star5.8
calendar 2013

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

Schooled: The Price of College Sports‌
star7.5
calendar 2013

Poltergeist

Poltergeist‌
star5.2
calendar 2015

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King‌
star6.8
calendar 2014

Maraschino Ruby

Maraschino Ruby‌
star7.7
calendar 2022

Loitering with Intent

Loitering with Intent‌
star4.0
calendar 2014

Showing Up

Showing Up‌
star9.2
calendar 2014

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

A Guy Walks Into a Bar‌
star0.0
calendar

The Bad Guys 2

The Bad Guys 2‌
star0.0
calendar 2025

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

The Search for One-eye Jimmy‌
star5.6
calendar 1994

Digging for Fire

Digging for Fire‌
star5.1
calendar 2015

Basquiat

Basquiat‌
star6.6
calendar 1996

Don Verdean

Don Verdean‌
star4.8
calendar 2015

Stuntnuts: The Movie

Stuntnuts: The Movie‌
star0.0
calendar

Mr. Right

Mr. Right‌
star6.5
calendar 2016

Laggies

Laggies‌
star6.1
calendar 2014

Woman In Burka

Woman In Burka‌
star0.0
calendar 2008

Walking the Mile

Walking the Mile‌
star5.0
calendar 2014

BigLove

BigLove‌
star6.7
calendar 2001

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream‌
star6.4
calendar 1999

In the Soup

In the Soup‌
star6.5
calendar 1992

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri‌
star8.1
calendar 2017

Over The Limit

Over The Limit‌
star0.0
calendar 1990

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw‌
star6.7
calendar 2008

Woman Walks Ahead

Woman Walks Ahead‌
star6.7
calendar 2017

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale‌
star6.8
calendar 2009

Arresting Gena

Arresting Gena‌
star0.0
calendar 1997

Mute

Mute‌
star5.6
calendar 2018

The Best of Enemies

The Best of Enemies‌
star7.4
calendar 2019

The Dark of Night

The Dark of Night‌
star5.0
calendar 2017

Nobody Wants Your Film

Nobody Wants Your Film‌
star1.0
calendar 2005

Jack and His Friends

Jack and His Friends‌
star3.5
calendar 1992

Blue Iguana

Blue Iguana‌
star5.8
calendar 2018

13 Moons

13 Moons‌
star5.5
calendar 2002

Vice

Vice‌
star7.0
calendar 2018

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

Blaze

Blaze‌
star6.2
calendar 2018

The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only Ivan‌
star7.4
calendar 2020

Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit‌
star8.0
calendar 2019

Trolls World Tour

Trolls World Tour‌
star7.3
calendar 2020

The Adventures of Drunky

The Adventures of Drunky‌
star0.0
calendar

The Origins of Ebbing

The Origins of Ebbing‌
star6.0
calendar 2018

Made

Made‌
star5.9
calendar 2001

The Heart

The Heart‌
star0.0
calendar

Subway Stories

Subway Stories‌
star6.0
calendar 1997

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary‌
star7.4
calendar 2019

Axis

Axis‌
star6.1
calendar 2017

F--k

F--k‌
star5.8
calendar 2010

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell‌
star7.4
calendar 2019

Clownhouse

Clownhouse‌
star6.3
calendar 1989

See How They Run

See How They Run‌
star6.4
calendar 2022

The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys‌
star7.6
calendar 2022

Argylle

Argylle‌
star6.1
calendar 2024

Somebody to Love

Somebody to Love‌
star5.2
calendar 1994

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'

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'‌
star0.0
calendar 2005

Tv Credits

Prince Street

Prince Street‌
star9.0
calendar 1997

Drunk History

Drunk History‌
star6.8
calendar 2013

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Late Show with James Corden‌
star5.4
calendar 2015

ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers‌
star5.4
calendar 2014

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Home Movie: The Princess Bride‌
star8.2
calendar 2020

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‌
star5.8
calendar 2014

Law & Order

Law & Order‌
star7.4
calendar 1990

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors‌
star4.3
calendar 2014

What If...?

What If...?‌
star8.1
calendar 2021

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live‌
star6.9
calendar 1975

Fosse/Verdon

Fosse/Verdon‌
star7.3
calendar 2019

The Last Movie Stars

The Last Movie Stars‌
star6.8
calendar 2022

The Last Movie Stars

The Last Movie Stars‌
star6.8
calendar 2022

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue‌
star7.0
calendar 1993

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen‌
star4.9
calendar 2009

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter‌
star5.7
calendar 2015

The Oscars

The Oscars‌
star7.0
calendar 1953

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Off Camera with Sam Jones‌
star4.0
calendar 2014

Law & Order

Law & Order‌
star7.4
calendar 1990

The Equalizer

The Equalizer‌
star7.1
calendar 1985

Unscripted

Unscripted‌
star8.0
calendar 2005