Sam Rockwell

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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).

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1968-11-05
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  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 22.6
  • info Birth Place Daly City, California, USA
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7.1

Galaxy Quest

1999-12-25

8.6

The Green Mile

1999-12-10

6.9

Iron Man 2

2010-04-28

6.7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990-03-30

5.9

Charlie's Angels

2000-11-02

7

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007-09-20

6.7

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2002-12-31

6.4

Heist

2001-11-09

5.7

Gentlemen Broncos

2009-09-30

5.7

Joshua

2007-01-21

4.8

Happy Hell Night

1992-04-13

6.7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005-04-28

6.8

Box of Moonlight

1996-08-29

7.3

Frost/Nixon

2008-10-15

7.1

Matchstick Men

2003-09-12

0

Untitled Martin McDonagh Project

6

Celebrity

1998-09-07

6.5

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989-07-26

6.1

Welcome to Collinwood

2002-05-24

5.1

Glory Daze

1995-10-01

6.9

Everybody's Fine

2009-12-04

7.2

Lawn Dogs

1997-11-21

6.2

Choke

2008-09-26

6.4

Snow Angels

2007-03-07

6.7

Light Sleeper

1992-08-21

6.4

The Winning Season

2009-01-19

5.6

Safe Men

1998-08-07

7.1

Conviction

2010-10-15

5.5

Strictly Business

1991-11-08

7.6

Moon

2009-06-12

0

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

6.4

Piccadilly Jim

2004-11-01

5.6

Cowboys & Aliens

2011-07-29

5.5

G-Force

2009-07-24

6.2

Jerry and Tom

1998-12-04

5.6

The Sitter

2011-12-09

5.8

Gettysburg

2011-05-30

6.8

Seven Psychopaths

2012-10-12

6.5

Mercy

1995-10-19

7

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

2000-06-13

3.3

Drunks

1997-03-14

7.2

The Way Way Back

2013-06-06

5.9

Better Living Through Chemistry

2014-03-14

5.7

A Single Shot

2013-09-19

7.3

IF

2024-05-08

6

Robin's Big Date

2005-05-04

5.7

A Case of You

2013-11-06

5.9

Trust Me

2013-04-20

7.5

Schooled: The Price of College Sports

2013-10-16

5.3

Poltergeist

2015-05-20

6.8

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

2014-02-04

7.7

Maraschino Ruby

2022-06-15

4.1

Loitering with Intent

2014-04-18

9.2

Showing Up

2014-02-25

0

A Guy Walks Into a Bar

0

The Bad Guys 2

2025-07-30

5.6

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

1994-11-09

5.1

Digging for Fire

2015-08-21

6.6

Basquiat

1996-08-09

4.8

Don Verdean

2015-12-01

0

Project X

6.5

Mr. Right

2016-02-29

6.2

Laggies

2014-09-25

0

Woman In Burka

2008-01-01

5

Walking the Mile

2014-12-09

6.7

BigLove

2001-01-19

6.4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1999-05-20

6.6

In the Soup

1992-10-23

8.1

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017-12-01

0

Over The Limit

1990-02-22

6.7

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

2008-03-31

6.8

Woman Walks Ahead

2017-09-10

6.9

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009-01-16

0

Arresting Gena

1997-01-27

5.6

Mute

2018-02-23

7.4

The Best of Enemies

2019-04-05

5

The Dark of Night

2017-05-18

1

Nobody Wants Your Film

2005-05-06

3.5

Jack and His Friends

1992-01-01

5.9

Blue Iguana

2018-08-23

5.5

13 Moons

2002-08-30

7.1

Vice

2018-12-25

0

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005-07-05

6.2

Blaze

2018-08-17

7.4

The One and Only Ivan

2020-08-21

8.1

Jojo Rabbit

2019-10-18

7.4

Trolls World Tour

2020-03-11

0

The Adventures of Drunky

6

The Origins of Ebbing

2018-06-25

5.9

Made

2001-07-13

0

The Heart

6

Subway Stories

1997-07-24

7.4

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

2019-11-26

6.1

Axis

2017-04-07

5.8

F--k

2010-04-07

7.5

Richard Jewell

2019-12-13

6.1

Clownhouse

1989-01-02

6.4

See How They Run

2022-09-09

7.6

The Bad Guys

2022-03-17

6.2

Argylle

2024-01-31

5.2

Somebody to Love

1994-09-27

0

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'

2005-09-05

9

Prince Street

1997-03-06

6.9

Drunk History

2013-07-09

5.5

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015-03-23

6.3

ABC Afterschool Special

1972-10-04

5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014-02-25

8.3

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

2020-06-29

5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014-02-17

7.4

Law & Order

1990-09-13

4.4

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014-12-21

8.2

What If...?

2021-08-11

7

Saturday Night Live

1975-10-11

7.3

Fosse/Verdon

2019-04-09

7

The Last Movie Stars

2022-07-21

7

The Last Movie Stars

2022-07-21

7

NYPD Blue

1993-09-21

5

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009-07-16

5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015-08-02

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

4

Off Camera with Sam Jones

2014-02-06

7.4

Law & Order

1990-09-13

7.2

The Equalizer

1985-09-18

8

Unscripted

2005-01-09

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