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Sam Rockwell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jason Dixon, a racist and troubled police deputy, in Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017. The same performance also earned him a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
In the 2009 science fiction film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones, Sam Rockwell played a lonely astronaut on a long-term solo mission to the far side of the Moon. The role required him to play dual versions of the character in the same scenes, and the performance drew widespread critical praise.
Sam Rockwell won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for his performance as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002, which was also George Clooney's directorial debut.
Sam Rockwell was born on the 5th of November, 1968, in Daly City, California, a suburb of San Francisco. 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 summers with his mother in New York City.
Sam Rockwell has been a member of the New York-based LAByrinth Theater Company since 1992, where John Ortiz is a co-artistic director. He has performed in numerous stage productions through the company, including The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which Philip Seymour Hoffman directed in 2005.
Tom DiCillo's Box of Moonlight in 1996 was the turning point for Sam Rockwell. He played an eccentric man-child who dresses like Davy Crockett and lives in an isolated mobile home. The film screened at Sundance and, by Rockwell's own account, placed him on the independent film map after ten years in New York.