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Parker Sawyers
Highest Rated: 91% Southside With You (2016)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: May 24, 1984
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, actor Parker Sawyers made his television debut in 2012 in the Netflix original TV series "Lilyhammer" (2012-14). He next appeared on the big screen in "Hyde Park on Hudson" (2012), a Bill Murray comedy about the romance between FDR and his distant cousin Daisy Suckley. Sawyers followed up this effort with an appearance in "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), about the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. In 2013, Sawyers played a number of small roles in feature films including "Austenland", "Drone" and "Kick Ass 2". In 2014 Sawyers played the role of Shaun Williams in the action adventure movie "Monsters: Dark Continent." In 2016 Sawyers came to prominence when he was cast as Barack Obama, in the movie "Southside With You" (2016), a fictionalized retelling of the relationship between Michelle and Barack Obama when the two were just starting out in the law profession, and living in Chicago. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and was widely praised. Following the Sundance premiere it was announced that Sawyers was cast in the Oliver Stone-directed "Snowden" (2017), about the NSA operative who disseminated secret files of the US government.
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Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | 49% | The Nan Movie | Walter (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 13% | 17% | The Lost Girls | Adam (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 56% | 55% | Infinite Storm | Patrick (Character) | $1.6M | 2022 |
| 87% | 39% | Monsoon | Lewis (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 61% | 42% | Greta | Park Hill Manager (Character) | $10.5M | 2018 |
| 47% | 46% | Sand Castle | Sergeant Robinson (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 33% | 31% | Don't Hang Up | Mr. Lee (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 86% | 71% | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Officer Cole (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 91% | 71% | Southside With You | Barack Obama (Character) | $6.3M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | The Call Up | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 18% | 16% | Monsters: Dark Continent | Shaun Williams (Character) | - | 2014 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92% | 51% | World on Fire | Albert Fallou (Character) | 2019 2023 |
| 100% | 79% | Spy/Master | Frank Jackson (Character) | 2023 |
| 95% | 94% | P-Valley | Andre (Character) | 2020 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Pine Gap | Gus (Character) | 2018 |
| 95% | 87% | Succession | Alessandro Daniels (Character) | 2018 |
| 90% | 85% | Easy | Jason (Character) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016 |