Jay O. Sanders
Acting
- Born:
- 1953-04-16
- Place of birth:
- Austin, Texas, USA
Biography
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Sanders made his off-Broadway debut in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V in 1976. He originated the role of Bradley in Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978). He made his Broadway debut in the play Loose Ends (1979). He returned to Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), Saint Joan (1993), Pygmalion (2007), Girl from the North Country (2020), and Purlie Victorious (2023). He made his feature film debut in the comedy Starting Over (1979). He had notable roles in films such as Cross Creek (1983), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Glory (1989), JFK (1991), Hostages (1992), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Music of the Heart (1999), Tumbleweeds (1999), and Revolutionary Road (2008). He took recurring roles in television series including Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Blindspot, and Sneaky Pete. He has served as the narrator for the shows Wide Angle, Nova, and Secrets of the Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay O. Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Remain
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum
Girl From the North Country
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
His Three Daughters
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Decoding the Universe
Outrage
When You Finish Saving the World
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
The Road to Galena
Incidental Moments of the Day
And So We Come Forth
Tapes
What Do We Need to Talk About?
That Hopey Changey Thing
Sweet and Sad
Sorry
Regular Singing
Stars in the House
The Assistant
Uncle Vanya
World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII
DC Noir
Saving the Dead Sea
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
The Violin Alone
Broken Places
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
NOVA: First Face of America
Vice
Ghosts of Stonehenge
Manhunt
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
Catfight
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
Iceman Reborn
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
Chicago Med
Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark
Blindspot
Dawn of Humanity
Sneaky Pete
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
Northern Borders
The Gathering Swarms
True Detective
NOVA: Cold Case JFK
NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower