Leo Fitzpatrick

Leo Fitzpatrick (born August 10, 1978 in Orange , New Jersey , USA ) is an American film actor .

At the age of 17, he played the male lead in the 1995 film drama Kids, directed by Larry Clark . Clark had discovered Fitzpatrick, who came from a humble background and had no previous acting experience, while researching subcultures of young people in the Manhattan skater scene and invited them to the casting .

Like most of the other young actors in Kids ( Chloë Sevigny , Justin Pierce , Rosario Dawson , Harold Hunter , Jon Abrahams ), Leo Fitzpatrick used his sudden fame to start an acting career. From 1997 onwards he starred in a number of American feature films, television films and television series.

The more well-known feature films of these include the two Larry Clark films Another Day in Paradise (1997, German title Ein neue Tag im Paradies ) and Bully - These kids shocked America (2001), further storytelling (2001), Because there are you ( 2001) and Blind Horizon - The Enemy In Me (2003).

Between 2002 and 2004, Fitzpatrick appeared in 14 episodes of the television series The Wire . In Germany he was in one episode of the American television series Practice - Die Anwälte (2000) and Criminal Intent - Verbrechen im Visier (2004) as well as in the television film Bubble Boy (2001).

In 2001 Leo Fitzpatrick was hired for a role in the film The Last Fortress with Robert Redford , but a traffic accident shortly before filming began prevented him from taking part in the filming.

Filmography (selection)

• 1995: Kids
• 1997: Another Day in Paradise
• 2000: Take it to the Limit
• 2000: King of the Korner
• 2000: 7- Teen Sips
• 2001: Last Ball
• 2001: storytelling
• 2001: Bully - These kids shocked America
• 2001: Bubble Boy
• 2001: Because you exist (Serendipity)
• 2002: City of Ghosts
• 2002: The Wire (TV series)
• 2003: Justice
• 2003: Blind Horizon
• 2004: Fearless (TV)
• 2004: Criminal Intent (TV) as Rickie "Chops" Cozza (episode title "Mafiosi")
• 2004: Jumbo Girl
• 2004: Nausea 2
• 2005: The Girl from Monday
• 2005/2007: My Name Is Earl (4 episodes)
• 2006: On the Road with Judas
• 2006: Fay Grim
• 2007: How to Rob a Bank
• 2009: Find me in New York! ( Uneaventure New-Yorkaise , TV movie)
• 2010: Sons of Anarchy
• 2011: Some Guy Who Kills People
• 2013: Doomsdays
• 2013: Blue Caprice
• 2013: Cold Comes the Night
• 2016: Gotham (season 2 episode 5)
• 2018: Maniac (TV series, two episodes)

Web links

• Leo Fitzpatrick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leo Fitzpatrick in the German synchronous file