Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 16, 1953
Place of Birth
Austin, Texas, USA
Credits
178 titles
Jay O. Sanders
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
Narrator
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum
Narration
Girl From the North Country
Nick Laine
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
Self - Narrator
His Three Daughters
Vincent
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee
Decoding the Universe
Narrator
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Self - Narrator
Outrage
Frank Brand
When You Finish Saving the World
Roger
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Ambassador Jones
The Road to Galena
John Baird
Incidental Moments of the Day
Richard Apple
And So We Come Forth
Richard Apple
Tapes
What Do We Need to Talk About?
Richard Apple
That Hopey Changey Thing
Richard Apple
Regular Singing
Richard Apple
Sweet and Sad
Richard Apple
Sorry
Richard Apple
Stars in the House
Self
The Assistant
Boss (voice)
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
Narrator (voice)
Uncle Vanya
Vanya
World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII
Narrator
DC Noir
Sgt. Peters
Saving the Dead Sea
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
Narrator (voice)
The Violin Alone
Narrator (voice)
Broken Places
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: First Face of America
Narrator (voice)
Vice
Governor
Ghosts of Stonehenge
Narrator (voice)
Manhunt
Watson Bryant
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
Narrator (voice)
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
George Gabriel
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
George Gabriel
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
George Gabriel
Catfight
Angry Guy
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
Narrator (voice)
Iceman Reborn
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
Narrator (voice)
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
Narrator (voice)
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
Narrator (voice)
Chicago Med
Cray