Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

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).
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Daly City, California, USA
    Birthday
    11/5/1968
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6.1
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5.198
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4.7
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6.7
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5.79
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6.378
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7.556
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5.689
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Box of Moonlight
6.795
Matchstick Men
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6.99
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5.1
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Lawn Dogs
7.2
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6.421
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7.071
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Seven Psychopaths
6.812
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The Dark of Night
5
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Jack and His Friends
3.5
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The One and Only Ivan
7.434
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Axis
6.1
Argylle
Argylle
0
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
7.048
Happy Hell Night
Happy Hell Night
4.741
Welcome to Collinwood
Welcome to Collinwood
6.149
Mercy
Mercy
8.5
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6.119
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.081
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Woman Walks Ahead
6.675
Heist
Heist
6.3
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7.31
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6.673
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6.797
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Cowboys & Aliens
5.594
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
6.774
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Arresting Gena
0
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Vice
7
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Galaxy Quest
7.064
Iron Man 2
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6.835
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Charlie's Angels
5.831
The Way Way Back
The Way Way Back
7.15
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Jojo Rabbit
8.036
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The Origins of Ebbing
6
Clownhouse
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6.163
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5.568
Showing Up
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9.2
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
6.667
F--k
F--k
5.8
The Green Mile
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8.509
Strictly Business
Strictly Business
5.296
Gettysburg
Gettysburg
5.8
Light Sleeper
Light Sleeper
6.6
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3.6
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5.613
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5.375
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Ultimate Iron Man: The making of Iron Man 2
0
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In the Soup
6.7
Mute
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5.586
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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'
0
Digging for Fire
Digging for Fire
5.1
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
6.868
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
0
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
7.4
Basquiat
Basquiat
6.6
IF
0
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.417
Made
Made
5.855
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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6.227
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6.618
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy
5.6
Celebrity
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6
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
7.1
Somebody to Love
Somebody to Love
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Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground
6.4
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