
Jay O. Sanders
Born April 16, 1953 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Green Lantern

The Day After Tomorrow

Kiss the Girls

Revolutionary Road

Glory

Along Came a Spider

JFK

Edge of Darkness

Daylight

Kiss of Death

Angels in the Outfield

For Richer or Poorer

Cadillac Records

When You Finish Saving the World

His Three Daughters

The Assistant

Wedding Daze

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Starting Over

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Remain

The Odd Couple II

I Hate Valentine's Day

Catfight

Half Nelson

Music of the Heart

Mr. Destiny

V.I. Warshawski

Hanky Panky

The Big Green

My Boyfriend's Back

The Jack Bull

D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

Eddie Macon's Run

The Valley of Light
TV Shows

Chicago Med

Person of Interest

The Outer Limits

Great Performances

American Playhouse

L.A. Law

Miami Vice

NOVA

True Detective

Blindspot

Damages

Unforgettable

Nature

Stars in the House

Northern Exposure

Body of Proof

Sneaky Pete

ABC Afterschool Special

New York Undercover

Manhunt

Crime Story

Kate & Allie

Secrets of the Dead

Spenser: For Hire

Booker

Texas

Pan Am

Roseanne

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Wonderland

Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

Salem Witch Trials

The Scarlet Letter

Widows

Decoding the Universe
More Movies

Three Wishes

Boss of Bosses

ATF

Hair High

The Confession

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Silver Strand

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Defenseless

The Day Christ Died

Meeting Venus

Iceman Reborn

Cross Creek

Down Came a Blackbird

Regular Singing

My Husband's Double Life

The Misfit Brigade

The Secret Life of Girls

Citizen Berlusconi

Greetings from the Shore

The Matchmaker

State of Emergency

Abby Singer

Happenstance

Northern Borders

The Last Brickmaker in America

NOVA: The Great Math Mystery

The Undying

Girl From the North Country

What Do We Need to Talk About?

Just Like in the Movies

A Novel Romance

And So We Come Forth

The Road to Galena

Uncle Vanya

A Doctor's Story

Incidental Moments of the Day

Tumbleweeds

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age

Dead Dog

Earthly Possessions

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

That Hopey Changey Thing

Picnic

Outrage

The Jewel

The Man Who Saved the World

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry

Tapes

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?

The Prosecutors

Cold Sassy Tree

The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum

Adventures in Plymptoons!

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

Holocaust Escape Tunnel

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

Sorry

Hostages

Nobody's Children

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

Sweet and Sad

Wrestling with Alligators

World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII

NOVA: Decoding da Vinci

Rio Shannon

NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?

NOVA: Cold Case JFK

Saving the Dead Sea

Riddles of the Sphinx

Dawn of Humanity

NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

Earth from Space

Decoding the Universe: Cosmos

Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators

The Gathering Swarms

NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

Wild Costa Rica

Secrets of Stonehenge

NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial

Broken Places

NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

Starstruck

The Violin Alone

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

DC Noir

Ghosts of Stonehenge

Decoding the Universe: Quantum

NOVA: First Face of America

NOVA: Why Trains Crash

NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare




