Peter Sarsgaard

Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. His film debut was in Dead Man Walking in 1995. In the nineties he went on to feature in The Man in the Iron Mask and won critical acclaim for his role in Boys Don’t Cry. In 2001, Peter landed his first leading role in The Center of the World. Throughout the 2000s, Peter appeared in a variety of films including: Garden State, Flightplan, Jarhead, The Skeleton Key, Orphan, An Education, Knight and Day, Green Lantern, Lovelace, Blue Jasmine, Black Mass and The Magnificent Seven.

It was Sarsgaard’s portrayal of the journalist Charles Lane in 2003’s Shattered Glass that showed his star potential, earning him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 2023, Sarsgaard portrayed a character suffering from dementia in the drama Memory, for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Why Peter Sarsgaard is vegan

Peter Sarsgaard is (probably) vegan for health.

It’s hard finding much about the motives behind Sarsgaard’s veganism, but as he is a keen runner, yet still cooks meat for his kids¹Thorp, C. Peter Sarsgaard: Our Kind of Leading Man. Men’s Journal. Available: https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/peter-sarsgaard-our-kind-of-leading-man-20140731/ [Accessed 10 March 2021]., it appears he eats a plant-based diet primarily for health reasons. In a 2023 interview, he joked about the limited vegan options at the restaurant, saying “I guess I’m going to have this polenta I’ve had 12 times.”²O’Toole, L. 2023. Healing, connection, optimism’: Peter Sarsgaard takes ‘Memory’ beyond the dementia. Los Angeles Times. Available: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-12-20/healing-connection-optimism-peter-sarsgaard-takes-memory-beyond-the-dementia [Accessed 13 August 2026].

“…there are a lot of vegans working in the entertainment industry. On the movie that I just wrapped I was actually wondering what the meat eating actors were doing!”³Thorp, C. Peter Sarsgaard: Our Kind of Leading Man. Men’s Journal. Available: https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/peter-sarsgaard-our-kind-of-leading-man-20140731/ [Accessed 10 March 2021].