• Name: Sam Rockwell
• Date of Birth: November 05, 1968
• Place of Birth: Daly City, California, USA

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Biography: Sam Rockwell is an American actor who has received consistently strong critical acclaim for his work in 40-plus films, including Box of Moon Light, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile, Confessions of a Dange...( read more )rous Mind and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After his first film role in 1989's Clownhouse (produced by Francis Ford Coppola's production company) he moved to New York at age 18 and trained at the William Esper Studios. His career continued on an upward momentum and the turning point in Rockwell's career was Tom DiCillo's 1996 film Box of Moon Light.

He also won strong reviews for the 1997 film Lawn Dogs, where he played a working-class lawn mower who befriends a wealthy 10-year-old girl (played by Mischa Barton) in an upper-class gated community in Kentucky; Rockwell's impressive performance won him Best Actor honors at both the Montreal World Film Festival and the Catalonian International Film Festival. A year later, he co-starred with Steve Zahn in Safe Men, whose director, John Hamburg, said, "Sam is a free spirit. He's the only person I know who, when he goes out to do a major studio movie in Los Angeles, rents a bike instead of a car." In 1999, Rockwell played a psychotic killer opposite Tom Hanks in the Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile. At the time of the film's shooting, Rockwell explained why he was attracted to playing such unlikable characters. He said, "I like that dark stuff. I think heroes should be flawed. There's a bit of self-loathing in there, and a bit of anger....But after this, I've really got to play some lawyers, or a British aristocrat, or they'll put a label on me."

After strong appearances as a bumbling actor in 1999's sci-fi satire Galaxy Quest and as gregarious villain Eric Knox in Charlie's Angels (2000), Rockwell won the biggest leading role of his career to date: the troubled and controversial The Gong Show host Chuck Barris in actor George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Starring alongside established Hollywood stars like Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts, Rockwell earned the lion's share of critics' praise.

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  22 Videos/Trailer for Sam Rockwell
  
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  Joshua (2007)
  The Green Mile (1999)
  Somebody to Love (1994)
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
  Safe Men (1998)
  In the Soup (1992)
  13 Moons (2002)
  Drunks (1997)
  Light Sleeper (1992)
  Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
  Lawn Dogs (1997)
  Strictly Business (1991)
  Heist (2001)
  Box of Moonlight (1996)
  Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990)
  Charlie's Angels (2000)
  Glory Daze (1996)
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (1990)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
  Mercy (1995)
  Clown House (1988)
  Galaxy Quest (1999)
  

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  NovaT

  he´s a fantastic actor, I just saw him in a short ''film'' called ''dead drunk'' or somethin where he was really young.

  posted 240 days ago
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  sculptbrown

  Sam is soooooooooh cool, espescially in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind!!!!!

  posted 312 days ago
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  dishwallafied

  I know I'm not the first to say this, but Sam Rockwell is the most underrated actor I've ever seen. A true artist. Brilliant.

  posted 374 days ago
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  mistershinobi

  In CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, Sam delivers one of the greatest performances in movie history!!!!
  
  Just amazing.......

  posted 389 days ago
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  RockaBetty

  I am watching matchstick men right now (:
  Sam Rockwell is aaace (y)
  xxx

  posted 414 days ago
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  superspeedstripes

  matchstick men. classic.

  posted 558 days ago

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• Gentlemen Broncos (Unrated, 2009)
• Choke (Unrated, 2008)
• Frost/Nixon (Unrated, 2008)
• Joshua (R, 2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (R, 2007)
• Nobody Wants Your Film (Unrated, 2006)
• Snow Angels (R, 2006)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PG, 2005)
• The F Word (Unrated, 2005)
• Piccadilly Jim (2004) (Unrated, 2004)

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  Sam Rockwell - Scene from Lawn Dogs (1997)