Sean Bridgers

Acting

Sean Bridgers

Born 1968-03-15 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Sean MacKenzie Bridgers (born March 15, 1968) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, known for his role as Johnny Burns on the HBO series Deadwood and on the SundanceTV original series Rectify as Trey Willis. In addition to many roles in television and film since 1991, Bridgers received acclaim and awards for the independent film Paradise Falls, which he wrote and produced. He received praise for his lead role in Lucky McKee's horror film The Woman and another Modernciné film, Jug Face, as well as notable roles in Sweet Home Alabama and Nell. He played Old Nick in the 2015 film Room.

Acting credits

The Magnificent Seven poster
6.5

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

The Magnificent Seven

2016

Primetime poster
NR

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

Primetime

2026

Room poster
8.0

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Room

2015

Bones and All poster
7.0

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Bones and All

2022

Sweet Home Alabama poster
6.4

New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.

Sweet Home Alabama

2002

Free State of Jones poster
6.8

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

Free State of Jones

2016

Trumbo poster
7.2

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Trumbo

2015

Midnight Special poster
6.3

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Midnight Special

2016

Dark Places poster
5.9

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Dark Places

2015

The Best of Me poster
7.5

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

The Best of Me

2014

The Whole Truth poster
6.6

A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.

The Whole Truth

2016

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice poster
4.8

When a tabloid reporter and his son travel to a quiet Midwestern town to investigate a gruesome massacre, they fall victim to a possessed orphan named Micah.

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

1992

Nell poster
6.5

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Nell

1994

Deadwood: The Movie poster
6.7

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

Deadwood: The Movie

2019

Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story poster
5.1

Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a local TV station. When her dreams of fame are dashed by rejection, she seduces 15-year-old Billy, one of her students. Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her by getting rid of her husband. The stakes heat up with a huge insurance policy on her husband's life.

Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story

1991

The Woman poster
6.1

A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.

The Woman

2011

ATF poster
5.8

In the wake of the tragic events at Waco, Texas where an armed conflict with armed militiamen broke out, agents of the federal government's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) carry out a clandestine mission within another militia operation that is possibly involved in the sales of guns and the murder of an agent. Agent Robin O'Brien infiltrates the operation against her director's orders. When events start unraveling and an FBI agent threatens to take over the operation and start a military action, the ATF agents have to apply what they learned from Waco to save another blood bath.

ATF

1999

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot poster
5.5

Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

2019

No artwork available
NR

A small-town waitress who seeks to exonerate her brother with a traumatic brain injury when he is arrested for the murder of a small-town sheriff’s daughter.

Red Camellia

Getting In poster
5.1

Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to plan.

Getting In

1994

Outlaw Posse poster
4.7

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose rationale to the gold leaves a trail of dead bodies.

Outlaw Posse

2024

The Painted poster
5.5

When Evelyn Elster inherits her estranged cousin's fortune she thinks her family has finally gotten the break they've needed. Little do they know they've not only inherited her cousin's riches, but also a family curse, and must do whatever they can to avoid becoming its latest victims.

The Painted

2024

Apple Jack poster
7.5

On the eve of Halloween, 1938, CBS radio reported UFO's in the skies over the United States. That same night, two notorious criminals escaped the maximum security prison at Macatawa... They were never seen again. Apple Jack is a high brow story about low brow people caught in a divine intervention

Apple Jack

2003

The Graveyard Feeder poster
NR

Cemetery caretaker Burke Sawyer and his deceased father, Pop Sawyer, team up to investigate a creature feeding on the dead underground.

The Graveyard Feeder

2013

Behind the camera