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.
138 movies · 38 shows
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
2026·8.0
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum
2025·0.0
Girl From the North Country
2024·6.9
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
2024·0.0
His Three Daughters
2024·6.8
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
2024·0.0
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
2024·8.0
Outrage
2023·4.9
When You Finish Saving the World
2023·5.8
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022·6.8
The Road to Galena
2022·4.3
Incidental Moments of the Day
2020·0.0
And So We Come Forth
2020·0.0
Tapes
2020·0.0
What Do We Need to Talk About?
2020·0.0
That Hopey Changey Thing
2020·0.0
Sweet and Sad
2020·6.5
Sorry
2020·6.5
Regular Singing
2020·0.0
The Assistant
2020·6.3
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci
2019·7.5
Uncle Vanya
2019·0.0
World War Speed: The Drugs That Won WWII
2019·0.0
DC Noir
2019·3.2
Saving the Dead Sea
2019·0.0
Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files
2019·4.0
The Violin Alone
2019·0.0
Broken Places
2018·0.0
NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers
2018·5.8
NOVA: First Face of America
2018·7.4
Vice
2018·0.0
Ghosts of Stonehenge
2017·6.0
Holocaust Escape Tunnel
2017·6.2
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
2017·0.0
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
2017·0.0
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
2017·0.0
Catfight
2017·5.5
NOVA: Why Trains Crash
2017·7.0
NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs
2017·7.5
Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
2016·0.0
Iceman Reborn
2016·7.7
NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice
2016·7.0
NOVA: Life's Rocky Start
2016·8.1
NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare
2016·7.0
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
2015·7.3
Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse
2015·0.0
NOVA: Secrets of Noah's Ark
2015·6.0
Dawn of Humanity
2015·7.5
NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
2015·7.8
Northern Borders
2015·5.8
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
2014·6.0
The Gathering Swarms
2014·6.5
NOVA: Cold Case JFK
2013·7.5
NOVA: Ground Zero Supertower
2013·7.0
The River
2013·8.5
NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
2013·5.0
The Man Who Saved the World
2012·8.0
NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword
2012·7.5
Earth from Space
2012·7.9
A Novel Romance
2011·6.9
I'm Coming Over
2011·3.0
Green Lantern
2011·5.2
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011·2.0
The Jewel
2011·6.6
Edge of Darkness
2010·6.4
Riddles of the Sphinx
2010·6.0
Secrets of Stonehenge
2010·8.0
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009·5.4
The Undying
2009·4.5
Revolutionary Road
2008·7.0
Cadillac Records
2008·7.1
NOVA: Arctic Dinosaurs
2008·7.2
The Dissection of Thanksgiving
2008·0.0
Kill the Day
2008·0.0
NOVA: Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
2007·9.3
Greetings from the Shore
2007·6.1
Happenstance
2007·1.0
The Valley of Light
2007·6.5
Wedding Daze
2006·5.6
Half Nelson
2006·6.6
The Day After Tomorrow
2004·6.6
Hair High
2004·6.4
Abby Singer
2003·6.8
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
2003·6.4
Dead Dog
2001·4.5
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001·8.0
Boss of Bosses
2001·5.5
Along Came a Spider
2001·6.3
My Husband's Double Life
2001·5.5
Endsville
2000·10.0
Picnic
2000·5.3
Wild Costa Rica
2000·8.0
Earthly Possessions
1999·6.0
Tumbleweeds
1999·6.4
Music of the Heart
1999·6.7
ATF
1999·5.8
The Secret Life of Girls
1999·6.5
The Jack Bull
1999·6.4
The Confession
1999·5.8
The Odd Couple II
1998·6.3
Wrestling with Alligators
1998·10.0
For Richer or Poorer
1997·6.0
The Matchmaker
1997·6.1
Kiss the Girls
1997·6.5
Daylight
1996·6.1
The Prosecutors
1996·8.0
Silver Strand
1995·4.4
Three Wishes
1995·6.3
Down Came a Blackbird
1995·8.1
The Big Green
1995·5.6
Kiss of Death
1995·5.7
Angels in the Outfield
1994·6.0
Nobody's Children
1994·5.8
State of Emergency
1994·5.7
Rio Shannon
1993·0.0
My Boyfriend's Back
1993·5.7
Hostages
1992·6.1
JFK
1991·7.6
Meeting Venus
1991·5.9
Defenseless
1991·4.9
V.I. Warshawski
1991·4.8
Mr. Destiny
1990·6.3
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990·8.0
Glory
1989·7.5
Cold Sassy Tree
1989·6.6
Just Like in the Movies
1989·8.3
The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988·5.6
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988·6.7
The Revolt of Mother
1988·0.0
The Misfit Brigade
1987·5.7
A Doctor's Story
1984·6.7
Cross Creek
1983·6.5
Eddie Macon's Run
1983·5.9
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983·7.3
Hanky Panky
1982·5.3
Starstruck
1981·8.0
The Day Christ Died
1980·6.3
Starting Over
1979·6.4