Sam Rockwell

Actor

Male

Born Nov 5, 1968

Age 44

Hometown Daly City

Sam Rockwell is an American actor probably best known for his role as "Head Thug" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the motion picture (1990) and for his leading roles in Lawn Dogs, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Choke and Moon, as well as for his supporting… Read More

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2013 Tribeca Film Festival 'A Case of You' premiere - Arrivals

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Apr 21, 2013

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2013 Tribeca Film Festival - 'Trust Me' premiere - Arrivals

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Apr 20, 2013

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2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Press Room

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Feb 24, 2013

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2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards at Santa Monica Beach - Arrivals

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Duncan Jones
Fling 2009
Piper Perabo
Dated 2007
Leslie Bibb
Dated 2007
Drew Barrymore
Dated 2002

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Sam Rockwell

Age 44

parents

Pete Rockwell

Father
Penny Hess

Mother

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Actors Have Feelings, Too
Huffington Post - Apr 24, 2013

Justin Long is in New York this week for the Tribeca Film Festival to promote his new romantic comedy, "A Case Of You," which Long co-wrote with his brother Christian and actor Keir O'Donnell. When we met in the basement of a New York City Hilton to discuss the new film however, our conversation started with some small talk -- which is often awkward. In this case, instead of saying something like "I like your shirt," I brought up my former Movieline colleague, film critic-turned-aut...
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What It Looks Like When Steve Carell Acts Like A Jerk
Huffington Post - Apr 11, 2013

"The Way, Way Back" is significant for two reasons. The first is that the film, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash ("The Descendants"), was sold for $10 million at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the high-water mark for 2013 acquisitions in Park City, Utah. The second is that beyond being a "Little Miss Sunshine" reunion -- Steve Carell and Toni Collette co-star -- it features a performance from Carell that could only be described as ...
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What's Next For Anne Hathaway
Huffington Post - Mar 27, 2013

News to make Hatha-haters' blood boil: Anne Hathaway has lined up her first post-"Les Miserables" role. According to Deadline.com, Hathaway will star in "Laggies" for acclaimed indie director Lynn Shelton. The film, which was first discussed in August of 2011, will also star Chloe Moretz and Sam Rockwell. Moretz, an active Twitter user, posted this note about the project: Written by novelist and humorist Andrea Seigel, "Laggies" focuses on...
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Mike Ryan: 10 Standout Films From Sundance
Huffington Post - Jan 25, 2013

For some reason, I am still at Sundance. This is now my 10th day in Park City, Utah and, well, in comparison to earlier this week, it's now a bit of a ghost town. I, too, was supposed to be one of those ghosts. Unfortunately, the combination of ice and airplanes do not mix, so here we are. (Someday I will return to you, New York. I hope. I hope.) But, there are still movies to be seen -- I have now seen 23 in all. So, since the last time I did a movie roundup (and there's the tim...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1968 Birth Born on November 5, 1968.

TWENTIES

1989 20 Years Old After his first film role in the 1989 horror film Clownhouse (produced by Francis Ford Coppola's production company) which he filmed when based in San Francisco, he moved to New York and trained at the William Esper Studios. … Read More

1996 27 Years Old The turning point in Rockwell's career was Tom DiCillo's 1996 film Box of Moon Light, in which he played an eccentric man-child who dresses like Davy Crockett and lives in an isolated mobile home. … Read More

1997 28 Years Old 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 (Mischa Barton) in an upper-class gated community in Kentucky; Rockwell's performance won him Best Actor honors at both the Montreal World Film Festival and the Catalonian International Film Festival.

1998 29 Years Old … Rockwell had what The New York Times described in 1998 as a "footloose upbringing" and, at age 10, made his brief stage debut playing Humphrey Bogart in an East Village improv comedy sketch starring his mother. … Read More

THIRTIES

1999 30 Years Old In 1999, Rockwell played prisoner William "Wild Bill" Wharton in the Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile. … Read More

2002 33 Years Old At one point, Rockwell even worked as a private detective's assistant. "I tailed a chick who was having an affair and took pictures of her at this motel", he told Rolling Stone in 2002. "It was pretty sleazy." … Read More

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)

2005 36 Years Old … He received somewhat more mixed reviews as Zaphod Beeblebrox in the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

2007 38 Years Old 3 More Events

He then had a notable supporting role as Charley Ford, brother of Casey Affleck's character Robert Ford, in the well-received 2007 drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in which Brad Pitt played the lead role of Jesse James. … Read More

2008 39 Years Old … He also starred in the 2008 film Snow Angels opposite Kate Beckinsale and directed by David Gordon Green. … Read More

FORTIES

2009 40 Years Old In 2009, he starred in the critically acclaimed science fiction film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones, for which his performance was widely praised, with some critics calling for an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination.

2010 41 Years Old 1 More Event

Rockwell appeared in the Iron Man sequel, released in 2010, as Tony Stark's rival weapons' developer, Justin Hammer.

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