Michael Pitt

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Michael Pitt at a concert in Madrid 2007

Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981 in West Orange , New Jersey ) is an American musician and actor .

Life

When he was ten, he told his parents that he would like to become an actor. At sixteen, he moved from New Jersey to New York City , where he worked as a bicycle courier and lived on the streets for a while until he shared a loft in Chinatown with eight other roommates .

In 1999, Pitt made his off- Broadway - debut in the play The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek by Naomi Wallace at the New York Theater Workshop. The casting agent Lori Eastside discovered him and gave him a role in the third season of the television series Dawson's Creek (1999-2000). In 2001 he played in the musical - film Hedwig and the Angry Inch the rock star lover a transvestite .

This was followed by roles in the films Bully by Larry Clark and Mord nach Plan by Barbet Schroeder . His breakthrough came in 2003 Pitt with his role in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers , a film about a love triangle in Paris in 1968. In 2004, he played a minor role in the mystery - thriller The Village - The village of M. Night Shyamalan . In the through the life of Kurt Cobain -inspired film Last Days of Gus Van Sant , he embodied a 2005 heroin-addicted rock star. Pitt starred in the 2007 film Funny Games US by Austrian director Michael Haneke .

In the first two seasons of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (2010-2011) he played the role of war returnees James "Jimmy" Darmody.

Pitt has his own band called Pagoda , in which he appears as a singer and plays the guitar.

Pitt 2003

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Commons : Michael Pitt  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Pitt, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitt, Michael Carmen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH West Orange , New Jersey