Cast & creator
Sam Rockwell
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Samuel Rockwell
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television credits
151
1949–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (164)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Officer Weddeker
1990Law & Order
Randy Borland
1990
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Big Brother
Self - Guest
2000
NYPD Blue
Billy
1993
Hot Ones
Self
2015
The White Lotus
Frank
2021
What If...?
Justin Hammer (voice)
2021
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Iron Man 2
Justin Hammer
2010
The Equalizer
Slick
1985
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
The Green Mile
'Wild Bill' Wharton
1999
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
2014
ABC Afterschool Special
Jason
1972
The Bad Guys
Wolf (voice)
2022
The Bad Guys 2
Wolf (voice)
2025
The Oscars
Self
1953
Drunk History
Bugsy Siegal
2013
Trolls World Tour
Hickory (voice)
2020
Charlie's Angels
Eric Knox
2000
Jojo Rabbit
Captain Klenzendorf
2019
F is for Family
Vic (voice)
2015
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Man from the Future
2026
Richard Jewell
Watson Bryant
2019
Argylle
Aidan Wilde
2024
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dixon
2017
IF
Guardian Dog (voice)
2024
Cowboys & Aliens
Doc
2011
G-Force
Darwin the Guinea Pig (voice)
2009
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zaphod Beeblebrox
2005
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Westley
2020
See How They Run
Inspector Stoppard
2022
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Head Thug
1990
Galaxy Quest
Guy Fleegman
1999
Poltergeist
Eric Bowen
2015
The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022The Last Movie Stars
Stuart Rosenberg (voice)
2022
Unscripted
Sam Rockwell
2005
Fosse/Verdon
Bob Fosse
2019Fosse/Verdon
Executive Producer
2019
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Charley Ford
2007
Moon
Sam Bell
2009
Wild Horse Nine
Lee
2026
The Way Way Back
Owen
2013
Seven Psychopaths
Billy Bickle
2012
Everybody's Fine
Robert
2009
Ray Gunn
Raymond Gunn (voice)
2026
Vice
George W. Bush
2018
Mr. Right
Mr. Right
2016
Frost/Nixon
James Reston Jr.
2008
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Justin Hammer
2014
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
The Sitter
Karl
2011
Matchstick Men
Frank Mercer
2003
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Chuck Barris
2002
The Best of Enemies
Claiborne Paul Ellis
2019
The One and Only Ivan
Ivan (voice)
2020
Woman Walks Ahead
Silas Groves
2018f is for family kick
Vic Reynolds
2015Prince Street
Donny Hanson
1997
Domino
Thanks
2005
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Francis Flute
1999
Heist
Jimmy Silk
2001
Mute
Sam Bell
2018
A Case of You
Gary
2013
Better Living Through Chemistry
Douglas Varney
2014
Celebrity
Darrow Entourage
1998
Conviction
Kenny Waters
2010
Glory Daze
Rob
1995
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Al
1989
A Single Shot
John Moon
2013A Single Shot
Executive Producer
2013
Choke
Victor Mancini
2008
Light Sleeper
Jealous
1992
Gentlemen Broncos
Bronco / Brutus
2009
Welcome to Collinwood
Pero
2002
Laggies
Craig Hunter
2014
Digging for Fire
Ray
2015
The Bad Guys 3
Wolf (voice)
Made
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
2001
Basquiat
Thug
1996
Clownhouse
Randy Collins
1990
Don Verdean
Don Verdean
2015Don Verdean
Executive Producer
2015
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
Wolf (voice)
2025
The Origins of Ebbing
Self
2018
Somebody to Love
Polish Guy
1994
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009
Subway Stories
Man Eating (segment "Sax Cantor Riff")
1997Tumor
Frank Armstrong
Lawn Dogs
Trent Burns
1997
Snow Angels
Glenn Marchand
2007
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
Self
2019
Joshua
Brad Cairn
2007Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Self (uncredited)
2000Reasonable People
Walking the Mile
Self (archive footage)
2014
Blaze
Oilman 3
2018
The Winning Season
Bill
2009The Winning Season
Executive Producer
2009
Trust Me
Aldo
2013
Showing Up
Self
2014
Strictly Business
Gary
1991
Safe Men
Samuel
1998
Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of 'Iron Man 2'
Self
2010
Blue Iguana
Eddie
2018Blue Iguana
Executive Producer
2018
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
Pizza Guy
2002
Box of Moonlight
The Kid
1996The Heart
Take Care
Thanks
2014
The Adventures of Drunky
Drunky (voice)
In the Soup
Pauli
1992
Maraschino Ruby
Wolf (voice)
2022The Cackling of the Dodos
The Cackling of the Dodos
Executive Producer
Robin's Big Date
The Bat-Man
2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
2005
Sweet Thing
Executive Producer
2020
Jerry and Tom
Jerry
1998
Drunks
Tony
1997
Happy Hell Night
Young Henry Collins
1991
Charlie’s Angels: The Master and the Angels
Self
2001
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'
Self
2005
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
Self
2022
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
Self
2008
F--k
Sam
2010
The Dark of Night
Officer Witt
2017
Nobody Wants Your Film
Self
2005
No Longer Suitable For Use
Executive Producer
2021
13 Moons
Rick
2002
Jack and His Friends
Louie
1992
Angelic Attire: Dressing Cameron, Drew & Lucy
Self
2001
Piccadilly Jim
Jim Crocker
2004Stuntnuts: The Movie
BigLove
Nate
2001
Loitering with Intent
Wayne
2014
Mercy
Matty (Al)
1995
Axis
Sam (voice)
2017DNA
DNA
Executive Producer
Arresting Gena
Sonny
1997
The F Word
Jeremy
2005
Is / Was \ Will
2025
Chasing the Party
Producer
2025
Over the Limit
Jason
1990
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
One-eye Jimmy
1994
Gettysburg
Narrator
2011
Louis & Frank
Sam
1998Hellhound
Schooled: The Price of College Sports
Narrator (voice)
2013
Zerk and Shirts: Junk Yard Dogs
Rod
2006The Smack
The Smack
Producer
Woman In Burka
Sam
2008