Peter Sarsgaard is a famous theater and film actor, not a huge number of prestigious awards nominee and winner of several film festivals.
The future actor was born into the family of a military engineer in Belleville. Due to the constant transfers of his father, the family often moved.
The road to cinema world
Peter Sarsgaard was born in 1971 on March 7th. The boy studied at the Connecticut Jesuit School.
From the age of seven, the boy dreamed of football. To develop coordination, he began to study ballet. After several failures in the game, the boy's attention turned to the performing arts.
The future famous actor received further education at the University of St. Louis. Peter then became a student at the University of Washington. He organized an improvisation comedy troupe in it.
Sarsgaard graduated from acting school. After graduation, the aspiring actor got his first roles in theaters and cinema in New York. In 1993, the final move there took place.
Peter starred in an episode of Law & Order and Undercover Cops. In 1995 the actor's film debut took place.
He was the work in the famous picture of Robbins "Dead Man Walking". Sarsgaard was lucky. By 1998, he had already starred in five films, including The Man in the Iron Mask.
The lucky beginner had a chance to play with John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Film career
At the same time, shooting with Kate Hudson in the comedy "Desert Sadness" took place. Peter successfully worked on the crime frame Another Day in Heaven with Melanie Griffith and James Woods.
Behind the great start, other opportunities have opened up as well. By 199, the young performer got a role in the Oscar-winning drama Boys Don't Cry.
All the awards were collected by Sarsgaard's partner for work, Hilary Swank, he did not get a single one. But the play of the young actor was recognized as psychologically reliable and he received flattering reviews from critics.
In 2003, Sarsgaard received his first Golden Globe nomination for his performance of Chuck Lane in The Stephen Glaas Affair. Peter turned out to have everything that is necessary for a successful game: charisma, excellent appearance, talent.
However, the performer admitted that it was not easy to play a person who lived in reality. It is simply impossible to come up with gestures and habits on your own. Because of the too much limitation of imagination, the best way out was to play as if the prototype never existed.
The actor's success became more and more. He has become a sought-after person in the world of cinema. In the 2004 melodrama Gardenland, Peter became Clyde Martin.
Director Zach Braff played the main character, and Natalie Portman became the heroine. At the same time, Sarsgaard was involved in the Dr. Kinga project, a biography of sex therapist Alfred Kinsey.
It was superbly performed by Liam Neeson. In the film, Sarsgaard played his assistant.
Film life
Sarsgaard worked with the brother of his future wife Maggie Jake Gyllenghaal in the film project "The Marines" about the Gulf War, based on the memoirs of one of the participants in the operation.
During work, I had to overcome physical exertion, make real marches with full gear. In the same period, the performer starred in "Illusion of Flight", the action of the thriller took place on an airplane.
The actor had to overcome his fear of flying, which the director was well aware of. In 2008, they filmed with Sienna Miller and John Foster in Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Peter became a friend of the main character, Cleveland. In the comedy project Knight of the Day, released in 2010, the actor became a federal agent. In Elegy, the actor worked with Penelope Cruz.
In 2012, the performer took part in the dubbing of one of the main characters of the melodrama Robot and Frank, together with Susan Sarandon and Liv Tyler. But the next year the actor took part in the filming of the third season of the crime serial project "Murder". He became the convicted Ray Steward.
In the same period, the actor tried his hand at producing a biographical film about the life of one of the most famous porn actresses "Lovelace". He worked as a performer in "Very Good Girls", "Jasmine", "Night Movements".
The role in the biographical drama about the famous grandmaster Bobby Fischer "Pawn Sacrifice" was followed by an invitation to play the forty-year-old Hector. According to the plot of the mini-series "Slap", a civil servant, a father of two children, falls in love with their nanny.
In 2013, the independent drama The Silent Green River, the Saturn-nominated biographical historian The Experimenter with Winona Ryder, and Cooper's Black Mass with Johnny Depp were released. Peter also starred in all projects.
Film life, theater and family affairs
The film portfolio added the role of Bobby Kennedy in the 2016 bioptic "Jackie". The work about the first lady of the States, Jacqueline Kennedy, performed by Natalie Portman, has earned many Oscar nominations.
In 2016, Sarsgaard starred in Fukua's Western "The Magnificent Seven". The next year opened with the documentary drama "Wormwood". In the film project "Escobar" the actor appeared as Neymar.
The tape told about the rise of the drug lord. In 2018, the performer became Martin Schmidt from The Ghost Tower series. At the same time, the shooting of the "Mirliton Ballet" began.
The charming and talented artist became famous as an inveterate heartthrob. His novels with famous Hollywood beauties are known. He dated Dita von Teese, Shalom Harlow.
The situation changed completely after meeting the sister of filming partner Meggie Gyllenhaal. The couple announced their engagement in 2006. October 3 was the birthday of their eldest child, daughter Ramona. The lovers became husband and wife in 2009. Three years after the wedding, on April 12, their youngest daughter Gloria Rae was born.
Peter Sarsgaard is not leaving the theater stage. In 2010, viewers saw him Vershinin from "Three Sisters" based on the play by Chekhov. Masha was performed by the wife of the actor Meggie.
