Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo. Rockwell's other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Moon (2009), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

KNOWN FOR

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2026
Law & Order
1993
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2019
Saturday Night Live
2018
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2025
Big Brother
2025
NYPD Blue
1995
Hot Ones
2025
The White Lotus
2025

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
151
Producing
11
Crew
2
2026
Wild Horse Nine
as Lee · unreleased
2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
as The Man from the Future
2026
Ray Gunn
as Raymond Gunn (voice) · unreleased
2026
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2025
The Bad Guys 2
as Wolf (voice)
2025
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
as Wolf (voice)
2025
Is / Was \ Will
2025
The White Lotus
as Frank
2025
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
2025
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2025
Hot Ones
as Self
2025
Big Brother
as Self - Guest
2025
The Emmy Awards
as Self
2024
IF
as Guardian Dog (voice)
2024
Argylle
as Aidan Wilde
2023
What If...?
as Justin Hammer (voice)
2022
Maraschino Ruby
as Wolf (voice)
2022
See How They Run
as Inspector Stoppard
2022
The Bad Guys
as Wolf (voice)
2022
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
as Self
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Self
2020
The One and Only Ivan
as Ivan (voice)
2020
Trolls World Tour
as Hickory (voice)
2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Westley
2019
The Best of Enemies
as Claiborne Paul Ellis
2019
Jojo Rabbit
as Captain Klenzendorf
2019
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
as Self
2019
Richard Jewell
as Watson Bryant
2019
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2019
Fosse/Verdon
as Bob Fosse
2019
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2018
Woman Walks Ahead
as Silas Groves
2018
Mute
as Sam Bell
2018
Blue Iguana
as Eddie
2018
Vice
as George W. Bush
2018
Blaze
as Oilman 3
2018
The Origins of Ebbing
as Self
2018
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
2018
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2018
The Oscars
as Self
2018
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Dixon
2017
The Dark of Night
as Officer Witt
2017
Axis
as Sam (voice)
2017
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2016
Mr. Right
as Mr. Right
2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2015
Poltergeist
as Eric Bowen
2015
Digging for Fire
as Ray
2015
Don Verdean
as Don Verdean
2015
Drunk History
as Bugsy Siegal
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
F is for Family
as Vic (voice)
2015
f is for family kick
as Vic Reynolds
2014
Better Living Through Chemistry
as Douglas Varney
2014
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
as Justin Hammer
2014
Loitering with Intent
as Wayne
2014
Showing Up
as Self
2014
Laggies
as Craig Hunter
2014
Walking the Mile
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2013
The Way Way Back
as Owen
2013
A Single Shot
as John Moon
2013
Trust Me
as Aldo
2013
A Case of You
as Gary
2013
Schooled: The Price of College Sports
as Narrator (voice)
2012
Seven Psychopaths
as Billy Bickle
2011
Cowboys & Aliens
as Doc
2011
The Sitter
as Karl
2011
Gettysburg
as Narrator
2010
Iron Man 2
as Justin Hammer
2010
Conviction
as Kenny Waters
2010
F--k
as Sam
2010
Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of 'Iron Man 2'
as Self
2009
Gentlemen Broncos
as Bronco / Brutus
2009
Everybody's Fine
as Robert
2009
The Winning Season
as Bill
2009
Moon
as Sam Bell
2009
G-Force
as Darwin the Guinea Pig (voice)
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2008
Frost/Nixon
as James Reston Jr.
2008
Choke
as Victor Mancini
2008
Woman In Burka
as Sam
2008
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
as Self
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Charley Ford
2007
Joshua
as Brad Cairn
2007
Snow Angels
as Glenn Marchand
2006
Zerk and Shirts: Junk Yard Dogs
as Rod
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Zaphod Beeblebrox
2005
Robin's Big Date
as The Bat-Man
2005
Nobody Wants Your Film
as Self
2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
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'
as Self
2005
The F Word
as Jeremy
2005
Unscripted
as Sam Rockwell
2004
Piccadilly Jim
as Jim Crocker
2003
Matchstick Men
as Frank Mercer
2002
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Chuck Barris
2002
13 Moons
as Rick
2002
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
as Pizza Guy
2002
Welcome to Collinwood
as Pero
2001
Heist
as Jimmy Silk
2001
BigLove
as Nate
2001
Made
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
2001
Charlie’s Angels: The Master and the Angels
as Self
2001
Angelic Attire: Dressing Cameron, Drew & Lucy
as Self
2000
Charlie's Angels
as Eric Knox
2000
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
as Self (uncredited)
1999
Galaxy Quest
as Guy Fleegman
1999
The Green Mile
as 'Wild Bill' Wharton
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Francis Flute
1998
Celebrity
as Darrow Entourage
1998
Safe Men
as Samuel
1998
Jerry and Tom
as Jerry
1998
Louis & Frank
as Sam
1997
Drunks
as Tony
1997
Arresting Gena
as Sonny
1997
Subway Stories
as Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
1997
Lawn Dogs
as Trent Burns
1997
Prince Street
as Donny Hanson
1996
Box of Moonlight
as The Kid
1996
Basquiat
as Thug
1995
Glory Daze
as Rob
1995
Mercy
as Matty (Al)
1995
NYPD Blue
as Billy
1994
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as One-eye Jimmy
1994
Somebody to Love
as Polish Guy
1993
Law & Order
as Officer Weddeker
1992
Light Sleeper
as Jealous
1992
In the Soup
as Pauli
1992
Jack and His Friends
as Louie
1992
Law & Order
as Randy Borland
1991
Happy Hell Night
as Young Henry Collins
1991
Strictly Business
as Gary
1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Head Thug
1990
Over the Limit
as Jason
1990
Clownhouse
as Randy Collins
1990
ABC Afterschool Special
as Jason
1989
Last Exit to Brooklyn
as Al
1988
The Equalizer
as Slick
Stuntnuts: The Movie
The Adventures of Drunky
as Drunky (voice)
The Heart
DNA
Hellhound
Tumor
as Frank Armstrong
The Bad Guys 3
as Wolf (voice)
The Cackling of the Dodos
The Smack
Reasonable People