Michael Pitt
Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor.
Born in West Orange, New Jersey, Pitt is the youngest of four children. At age 10, he announced to his parents that he wished to become an actor. He moved to New York City from New Jersey when he was 16 years old, where he took a job as a bike messenger and lived in a one-bedroom apartment with nine others.
Though they share the same last name, Michael is in no way related to fellow actor Brad Pitt.
In 1999, Pitt made his off-Broadway debut in the play The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at the New York Theatre Workshop. A casting agent noticed him and recommended him for a role on the television series Dawson's Creek. His breakout role as the lover of a transgendered rock star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2001 led to supporting roles in Bully and in mainstream Hollywood fare such as Murder by Numbers, as well as the lead in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers. In his latest movie, Last Days he plays a heroin-addicted, suicidal rock star, a part modeled after Kurt Cobain. In 2007, he will star opposite Keira Knightley in Silk, adapted from the novel by Alessandro Baricco. He will play the lead role of Herve Joncour, a French silkworm smuggler who falls in love with a baron's concubine while in Japan. Filming begins in mid-2006.
He sings and plays guitar in his band Pagoda, who's debut album House Of Worship, is set to be released July 18, 2006 by Universal/Fontana/Ecstatic Peace.
Selected filmography
- Silk (2007)
- Delirious (2006)
- The Hawk is Dying (2006)
- Last Days (2005)
- The Village (2004)
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
- Jailbait (2004)
- Wonderland (2003)
- Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
- The Dreamers (2003)
- Murder by Numbers (2002)
- Bully (2001)
- Yellow Bird (2001)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- Finding Forrester (2000)
- Even Housewives in Minnesota Have Those Daydreams (1999)
- Hi-Life (1998)
- 54 (1998)