Michael Pitt

Biography: Michael Pitt

With a fair-skinned face that recalls Leonardo DiCaprio and blue-green eyes that seem to pierce the screen, actor Michael Pitt has come a long way from his role as a high school football star on Dawson's Creek. An adventurous actor who isn't afraid to take risks, Pitt has appeared as everything from a callous glam rocker (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) to a murderous, introspective teen (Murder by Numbers) -- all with equal conviction. A native of West Orange, NJ, Pitt realized his future calling at the age of ten. His supportive parents soon gathered the money to send their son to drama school in New York a few short years later. At 16, Pitt crossed the Hudson River with little more than the shirt on his back, and in between the occasional independent film and television role, the aspiring actor supported himself by taking a job as a bike messenger. In 1999, Pitt made his off-Broadway debut in the Depression-era drama The Trestle of Pope Lick Creek, and it was there that a casting agent spotted him and recommended him for a role in Dawson's Creek. With the creative constraints of television failing to fulfill Pitt artistically, however, the rising star quickly gravitated to more challenging feature roles. A supporting performance in director Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester (2000) found Pitt's recognition factor growing, and his next role was that of glam rocker Tommy Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001). His creativity and comfort in front of the cameras growing, Pitt took a supporting part in director Larry Clark's Bully before landing his biggest role to date as one-half of a murderous pair of teens in Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers (2002). Though that may have been his highest-profile role, his most creatively challenging role was likely that of a young American living in Paris in director Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, which premiered at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. A frank and sexually explicit film concerning the friendship of Pitt's character with a pair of movie-loving Parisian siblings, the film follows the trio as they close themselves off from the world while the 1968 Paris student riots rage outside. That same year, Pitt took the lead as a reclusive young man in the dark drama Rhinoceros Eyes, and also appeared in a supporting capacity in the John Holmes crime drama Wonderland. With no less than four films (The Village, Jailbait, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and West Memphis Three) scheduled for release in 2004 alone, fans could rest assured that they would be seeing plenty more of Pitt in the years to come. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide less

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Pinkville (2011)
Cast: Oliver Stone Woody Harrelson Michael Pitt Channing Tatum Toby Jones
Tags: War Drama Drama
Length: min
Channing Tatum, Michael Peña, and Woody Harrelson star in director Oliver Stone's war drama concerning the investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre. Bruce Willis portrays Army General William R. Peers, the man sent to investigate when U.S. soldiers...
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Silk (2007)
Cast: Alfred Molina François Girard Koji Yakusho Michael Pitt Keira Knightley
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 109min
Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and this...
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The Hawk is Dying (2005)
Cast: Paul Giamatti Michelle Williams Michael Pitt Ann Wedgeworth Julian Goldberger
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 106min
A man channels his feelings through an obsession with wild birds in this independent drama based on a novel by Harry Crews. Fortysomething George Gattling (Paul Giamatti) is an emotionally stunted man who makes his living doing auto upholstery and...
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Last Days (2005)
Cast: Gus Van Sant Asia Argento Lukas Haas Michael Pitt Mali Finn
Tags: Art Film Film a Clef Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 96min
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant wrote and directed this meditation on stardom and its costs, inspired in part by the life and death of ock musician Kurt Cobain. Blake (Michael Pitt) is the leader of an influential alternative rock band who has unexpectedly...
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Funny Games (2007)
Cast: Michael Haneke Naomi Watts Tim Roth Michael Pitt Darius Khondji
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 112min
Notoriously nihilistic filmmaker Michael Haneke revisits one of his most controversial works in this remake of 1997's Funny Games starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. When a family of three arrives at their remote summer cabin for a quiet getaway, the...
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Murder By Numbers (2002)
Cast: Sandra Bullock Barbet Schroeder Chris Penn Ryan Gosling Michael Pitt
Tags: Psychological Thriller Police Detective Film Thriller
Length: 120min
When a pair of bright-but sociopathic teens conspires to commit the perfect murder, a troubled cop teams with her eager new partner to solve the case that left the community in fear and the police without a clue. High school ladies' man Richard...
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Delirious (2006)
Cast: Steve Buscemi Tom DiCillo Gina Gershon Michael Pitt Alison Lohman
Tags: Satire Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 107min
Writer/director Tom DiCillo's satire Delirious (2006) eviscerates Hollywood celebrity and celebrity types with a relentlessly dissecting gaze and take-no-prisoners humor. DiCillo mainstay Steve Buscemi stars as Les Galantine, a sleazy and merciless...
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Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
Cast: Michael Pitt Aaron Woodley Matt Servitto Paige Turco Jim Allodi
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 93min
Written and directed by Aaron Woodley, Rhinoceros Eyes follows Chep (Michael Pitt), a reclusive prop-factory employee who quite literally lives at his job. Considering that Chep only leaves the funhouse-like factory to watch omantic films at the...
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Jailbait (2004)
Cast: Michael Pitt Brett C. Leonard Laila Robins David Zayas Stephen Adly-Guirgis
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 89min
Acclaimed playwright Brett C. Leonard makes his feature-film debut as the writer and director of the prison drama, Jailbait, which was inspired, in part, by Leonard's feelings about mandatory sentencing laws. Randy (Michael Pitt of The Dreamers) is a...
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The Dreamers (2003)
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci Jean-Pierre Léaud Michael Pitt Jeremy Thomas Eva Green
Tags: Period Film Drama Coming-of-Age Erotic Drama
Length: 116min
Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel -The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent...
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