Michael Pitt
About
Biography
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Writer (Feature Film)
Producer (Feature Film)
Music (Feature Film)
Life Events
1997
Appeared on an episode of "Dellaventura" (CBS)
1998
First film role, an uncredited part as a dance student in "54"
1998
Feature acting debut, "The Hi-Life"
1999
Made off-Broadway debut in "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek" at New York Theatre Workshop
1999
Landed recurring role as football player Henry Parker on "Dawson's Creek" (The WB)
2000
Cast as a student in Gus Van Sant's "Finding Forrester"
2001
Acted in Faye Dunaway's directorial debut "The Yellow Bird," based on a Tennessee Williams' play; aired on WE network
2001
Delivered breakout role as the lover of a transgendered rock star in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
2001
Had a supporting role as a stoner who becomes involved in a murder plot in Larry Clark's "Bully"
2002
Acted on stage in the off-Broadway play "Monster," loosely based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2002
Played one of the leads in "Murder by Numbers," about two high school students who think they have committed the perfect murder
2004
Stared as an American student in Paris in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers"; film was set against the backdrop of the 1968 Paris student riots
2004
Appeared in Asia Argento's "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things"
2005
Headlined Gus Van Sant's "Last Days," playing a part loosely based on rocker Kurt Cobain
2006
Co-starred with Paul Giamatti for the southern-themed "The Hawk is Dying," based on the novel by Harry Crews
2007
Co-starred with Keira Knightley as a French husband and wife in director François Girard's "Silk"
2007
Starred in "Delirious" as a young homeless man who befriends a celebrity photographer (Steve Buscemi)
2008
Co-starred in Michael Haneke's remake of his own 1997 film "Funny Games" alongside Tim Roth and Naomi Watts
2010
Cast as James 'Jimmy' Darmody on HBO's Prohibition-era series "Boardwalk Empire," starring Buscemi
2012
Cast in ensemble crime comedy "Seven Psychopaths"
