Age: 57
male
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying 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. 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), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Two brilliant but dangerously arrogant young men, Brandon and Philip, commit what they believe is the “perfect murder,” strangling a former classmate to prove an intellectual point. Seeking the thrill of superiority, they hide the body in a chest… then invite the victim’s friends and family over for a dinner party—using that same chest as the serving table. As guests mingle unaware, the tension grows unbearable. Brandon revels in the secret, treating the murder like an elegant philosophical experiment. Philip, wracked with guilt, begins to unravel. But it’s their former mentor, Rupert Cadell, a sharp-minded professor with a taste for moral debate, who senses something off. His curiosity turns into suspicion as the evening drifts from polite conversation to chilling glimpses of the boys’ twisted beliefs. Every movement in the room becomes a ticking clock, every remark a test of conscience. What began as an intellectual game soon threatens to collapse under the weight of their own philosophy—and the presence of a man clever enough to expose it.
