Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is a highly regarded American actor.

Rockwell is known for his versatility and for vivid, finely detailed characters. Early leading roles in the independent film Lawn Dogs (1997) and in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) established his reputation as a serious actor, and he took on key or leading parts in the science-fiction classic Galaxy Quest (1999), The Green Mile (1999), Matchstick Men (2003) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). In 2010 he played the main villain, arms dealer Justin Hammer, in the Marvel superhero film Iron Man 2.

In 2017 Rockwell played Jason Dixon, a controversial and inwardly tormented police officer, in the dark crime comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The performance swept the major film awards, winning him Best Supporting Actor at the 90th Academy Awards as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild awards for Best Supporting Actor. In 2018 he portrayed former U.S. President George W. Bush in the biographical satire Vice, earning another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

On television, Rockwell played the legendary choreographer and director Bob Fosse in the 2019 biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor.