Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell is an American actor, born on November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California, and raised in San Francisco. He first performed with his mother at ten and later trained at New York's William Esper Studio. Rockwell emerged in Lawn Dogs, The Green Mile and Galaxy Quest. His unpredictable screen presence fueled acclaimed performances in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Moon and Seven Psychopaths. Rockwell won the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award as troubled deputy Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, then earned another Oscar nomination as George W. Bush in Vice. He received Emmy nominations for portraying Bob Fosse in Fosse/Verdon and appearing in The White Lotus, plus a Tony nomination for Broadway's American Buffalo. Known for intense character work, offbeat humor and physicality, he moves easily between leading men, villains and eccentric outsiders.