Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968[1]) is an American actor. For playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh’s crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same category the following year for portraying George W. Bush in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo.
Not to be confused with Samuel Rockwell.
Sam Rockwell
Rockwell's other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), 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), Moon (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022).
Early life and education[edit]
Rockwell was born November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California.[2][3] He is the only child of actors Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. After their divorce when he was five, he was raised by his father in San Francisco and spent his summers with his mother in New York City.[4] At age 10, he made a brief stage appearance playing Humphrey Bogart in an East Village improv comedy sketch with his mother.[5]
He started high school at the San Francisco School of the Arts with Margaret Cho and Aisha Tyler, but received his high school diploma from Urban Pioneers, an Outward Bound-style alternative school. Rockwell explained, "I just wanted to get stoned, flirt with girls, go to parties." The school "had a reputation as a place stoners went because it was easy to graduate."[6] The school helped him regain an interest in performing. After appearing in an independent film during his senior year, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career.[7] He later enrolled in the Professional Actor Training Program at the William Esper Studio in New York.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Rockwell has never married, and stated in a 2007 interview "I definitely don't want to become a parent. It's not my bag".[33] He has been in a relationship with actress Leslie Bibb since 2007. They both appeared in Iron Man 2 and Don Verdean.[34][35]