
Sam Rockwell
Compleanno: 1968-11-05
Luogo di nascita: Daly City, California, USA
Biografia: 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).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990
Fantascienza
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Basquiat, 1996
Drammatico
Storico

Celebrity, 1998
Drammatico
Commedia

The Green Mile, 1999
Fantasy
Drammatico
Investigativo

Galaxy Quest, 1999
Commedia
Fantascienza
Avventura

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999
Fantasy
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Romantico

Charlie's Angels, 2000
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Avventura
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Investigativo
Thriller

Heist, 2001
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Drammatico
Thriller

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, 2002
Commedia
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Drammatico

Welcome to Collinwood, 2002
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Matchstick Men, 2003
Commedia
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Investigativo
Thriller

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005
Avventura
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Fantascienza

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007
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Drammatico
Western

Joshua, 2007
Drammatico
Thriller
Horror

Frost/Nixon, 2008
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Choke, 2008
Commedia
Drammatico

Moon, 2009
Fantascienza
Drammatico

G-Force, 2009
Animazione
Fantasy
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Everybody's Fine, 2009
Drammatico

Iron Man 2, 2010
Avventura
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Conviction, 2010
Drammatico

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011
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Thriller
Western

The Sitter, 2011
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Seven Psychopaths, 2012
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The Way Way Back, 2013
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A Case of You, 2013
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Romantico

A Single Shot, 2013
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Thriller

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, 2014
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Fantasy

Laggies, 2014
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Romantico

Better Living Through Chemistry, 2014
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Poltergeist, 2015
Horror

Mr. Right, 2016
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Romantico
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2017
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Vice, 2018
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Drammatico

Mute, 2018
Fantascienza
Mistero
Thriller

Jojo Rabbit, 2019
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Guerra
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Richard Jewell, 2019
Drammatico

The Best of Enemies, 2019
Drammatico
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Trolls World Tour, 2020
Animazione
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Fantasy
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The One and Only Ivan, 2020
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The Bad Guys, 2022
Animazione
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See How They Run, 2022
Mistero
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Argylle, 2024
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