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Parker Sawyers

Highest Rated: 91% Southside With You (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Nan Movie (2022)

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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Highest rated movies

91% 71% Southside With You Watchlist 87% 39% Monsoon Watchlist 86% 71% The Autopsy of Jane Doe Watchlist 61% 42% Greta Watchlist 56% 55% Infinite Storm Watchlist 50% 47% Sand Castle Watchlist 33% 32% Don't Hang Up Watchlist
18% 16% Monsters: Dark Continent
Watchlist 14% 19% The Lost Girls Watchlist 0% 55% The Nan Movie Watchlist
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Parker Sawyers

Parker Sawyers SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, from left: Tika Sumpter as Michelle Robinson, Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama, 2016, © Roadside Attractions SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, from left: Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama, Tika Sumpter as Michelle Robinson, 2016, ©Roadside Attractions SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, from left: Tika Sumpter as Michelle Robinson, Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama, 2016. ph: Matt Dinerstein/© Roadside Attractions SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, from left: Tika Sumpter as Michelle Robinson, Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama, 2016. ph: Matt Dinerstein/© Roadside Attractions SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, PARKER SAWYERS AS BARACK OBAMA, 2016. ©ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, PARKER SAWYERS AS BARACK OBAMA, 2016. ©ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, PARKER SAWYERS AS BARACK OBAMA, TIKA SUMPTER AS MICHELLE OBAMA, 2016. ©ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, L-R: TIKA SUMPTER AS MICHELLE OBAMA, PARKER SAWYERS AS BARACK OBAMA, 2016. ©ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, L-R: TIKA SUMPTER AS MICHELLE OBAMA, PARKER SAWYERS AS BARACK OBAMA, 2016. ©ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
0% 55% The Nan Movie Walter (Character) - 2022
14% 19% 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
50% 47% Sand Castle Sergeant Robinson (Character) - 2017
33% 32% 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
45% 58% Red Eye Eric Jones (Character) 2024
92% 52% World on Fire Albert Fallou (Character) 2019 2023
100% 76% Spy/Master Frank Jackson (Character) 2023
95% 94% P-Valley Andre (Character) 2020 2022
No Score Yet 54% Pine Gap Gus (Character) 2018
95% 88% Succession Alessandro Daniels (Character) 2018
90% 85% Easy Jason (Character) 2017
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2016