Sam Rockwell
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Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for appearing in independent films and portraying a wide variety of roles both comedic and dramatic in films such as Celebrity (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Heist (2001), 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), Choke (2008), Moon (2009), The Sitter (2011), Seven Psychopaths (2012), A Case of You (2013), Don Verdean (2015), Blue Iguana (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), See How They Run (2022), and Argylle (2024), along with playing Justin Hammer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media Iron Man 2 (2010), All Hail the King (2014), and What If...? (2023).Rockwell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). and was nominated the following year for portraying George W. Bush in Adam McKay's Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022 he received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo. His other stage performances include Zoo Story (2001), A Behanding in Spokane (2010) and Fool for Love (2015).
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