Celebrity Biographies
Peter Sarsgaard
It is not that all his roles have been evil, but it is in these characters where he has known how to show the best of himself. And it is that something in this boy’s look portends the worst, although he has also been able to prove his innocence.
Like many other professional colleagues, Peter Sarsgaard took advantage of his university years to indulge in the acting bug. He was born on March 7, 1971 in Belleville (Illinois) and graduated in History and Literature from the University of Saint Louis of Washington. While studying his degree, he founded a theater group with some friends while participating in off-Broadway plays.
His first off-stage role was in the television series Law and Order , in which he participated in a chapter. He soon got his first break in movies thanks to Tim Robbins ‘s prison drama Death Row (1995). His role has little presence in the film, although it has a lot of significance in the plot, since he is one of the boys that Sean Penn ‘s character allegedly murders . His first starring role came in 1998 in the unknown Minor Details .(1998). However, his career has been mostly linked to other paths marked by secondary roles. If throughout his career he has shown that he is very good at evil characters, it is curious that when he had not yet done any notable characters, he was asked to play the son of John Malkovich in The Man in the Mask of iron (1998). An actor who knows how to convey fear and uncertainty to the viewer like no one else. However, in this film, both actors showed their more humane and kind sides, as Malkovich was Athos the musketeer and Peter his heroic son.
The dark side took hold of him to play John Lotter in Boys Don’t Cry (1999). His good performance as a crazy and intolerant young man who ends up causing a great tragedy, helped many to claim an Oscar nomination, which did not happen. His conquests continued through the terrain of evil in the thriller Housebond (2000) and in Empire (2002), where he became a refined broker, although not without evil. He changed third with K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), a drama starring Harrison Ford and set in a nuclear submarine. This change in the type of characters had its continuation in the comedy Love without conditions(2002). This genre is so unusual in his career that to find it again you have to go to Something in Common (2004), which is not even exactly a comedy, as it has quite dramatic aspects.
An intermediate point between the good guy in the movie and the bad guy on duty is his role in The Price of Truth (2003), where he was Hayden Christensen ‘s boss . The complicated situation that the journalist he plays is going through means that the public does not have everything with them in relation to which side the balance will finally tip. Going back to the unpleasant characters, his teacher’s assistant in Kinsey (2004), a drama starring Liam Neeson where he had double standards to measure similar situations , was not particularly likable . A year later he returned to ruthless evil in the thriller Flight Plan: Missing , as Jodie Foster can confirm., who spends the film on the verge of madness. That haunting look that drove Jodie Foster crazy was cleaned up for Jarhead (2005), where she showed the more human side of him by becoming a well-intentioned criminal who wanted to start a new life serving as a soldier in the Gulf War.
Peter starred in Jarhead alongside his brother-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal . Peter has been linked to fellow actress Maggie since 2003. The couple has a girl named Ramona who is just over a year old. Since the little girl was born, the tabloids suggested that the couple was getting married, although this has not yet happened. So that everything continues to stay in the family, Peter is about to open the Anwar File in Spain , where he has met Jake again. In this thriller starring Reese Witherspoon , he is in charge of helping her bring back her husband, who is being held for issues related to terrorism. Nor will it take long for Elegy , the latest film by Isabel Coixet , to arrive in Spain. The Catalan director chose him to play the son of Ben Kingsley , who stars in the film alongside Penelope Cruz . It seems that working with a Spanish filmmaker has left a good taste in the mouth of Peter, who has just shot the horror film Orphan under the orders of Jaume Collet-Serra . Taking into account how little is known about the plot, it seems that this time he has turned the tables and that it will be Peter who will have to suffer. He and Vera Farmiga are a married couple who adopt a little girl who is far from angelic. Currently shooting with Emma Thompson An Education, where he plays a playboy who, at least on the surface, seems unreliable.