Jay O. Sanders

Known for ActingBorn 1953-04-16 (age 73)Austin, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Decoding the Universe

Hunting the Edge of Space

Wrestling with Alligators

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

The River

Widows

Chicago Med

True Detective

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Just Like in the Movies

Person of Interest

The Man Who Saved the World

Secrets of Stonehenge

Down Came a Blackbird

Earth from Space

The Last Brickmaker in America

Wild Costa Rica

The Prosecutors

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Blue Bloods

NOVA: Iceman Reborn

Crime Story

Starstruck

Northern Exposure

Manhunt

Nature

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

The Good Wife

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

Dawn of Humanity

The Outer Limits

Sneaky Pete

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

NOVA: First Face of America

Damages

Blindspot

JFK

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

Glory

Miami Vice

Unforgettable

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

New York Undercover