Age: 57
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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.
Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic and aspiring writer, takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel. He moves into the grand resort for the winter with his wife, Wendy, and their young son, Danny. Danny possesses "the shining," a powerful psychic ability that allows him to see the horrific ghosts and dark secrets embedded in the hotel's bloody history. As a brutal winter storm traps the family inside and cuts them off from the outside world, the hotel's malevolent supernatural forces begin to feast on Jack’s vulnerabilities, slowly driving him into a state of violent insanity.Wendy is forced to protect her son as Jack completely unravels, transforming from a desperate father into a bloodthirsty monster. Danny must use his supernatural gift to survive the haunting visions and the real-world terror roaming the corridors. The story builds to a chilling climax where the family must escape the frozen labyrinth of the Overlook before Jack's madness consumes them all. It is a masterpiece of psychological horror that explores how isolation can unleash the monsters hidden deep within the human mind.
