Jay O. Sanders

Jay O. Sanders

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.

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Jay O. Sanders Movies

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1

His Three Daughters (2024)

Comedy Drama
Three sisters who have spent years carefully avoiding each other are suddenly sharing a small Manhattan apartment, waiting for their father to die. The cramped quarters do what distance never...
Score 6.8
2

When You Finish Saving the World (2023)

Comedy Drama
Evelyn runs a domestic violence shelter and pours her maternal instincts into everyone except her own son. Ziggy streams folk songs to thousands of online fans and barely notices his...
Score 5.8
3

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
When paleoclimatologist Jack Hall warns a room full of UN delegates that the planet is lurching toward a new Ice Age, they politely ignore him. Nature does not. Within days,...
Score 6.5
4

JFK (1991)

Drama History Thriller
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison refuses to accept the official verdict on November 22, 1963. Convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, he pulls at threads that...
Score 7.6
5

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Drama
Preston Tucker believed postwar America deserved a better car, and in 1945 he set out to build it himself. What followed was equal parts visionary ambition and spectacular miscalculation, with...
Score 6.7

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