Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model,
and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Murder by Numbers
(2002), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Gus Van Sant's Last
Days (2005) and Michael Haneke's Funny Games (2007), and in television
for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama Dawson's Creek
(1999â€"2000), Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
(2010â€"2011) and Mason Verger in the second season of the NBC series
Hannibal (2014). He has also appeared in the films Hedwig and the
Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001), Silk (2007), Seven Psychopaths
(2012), I Origins (2014), and Ghost in the Shell (2017).Michael Carmen
Pitt was born on April 10, 1981 in West Orange, New Jersey to Donald
B. Pitt, an auto mechanic, and Eleanor Carol (née DeMaio) Pitt, a
waitress. He has two older sisters, Allison and Stacey and one older
brother, Brian. Pitt is of Italian and Irish heritage on his mother's
side, and of English descent on his father's. By age 16, Pitt had been
to three or four different high schools and was in 'special classes'
before ultimately dropping out. He also did a brief stint at the Essex
County Youth House, a detention center.In 2001, Pitt earned a breakout
role as Tommy Gnosis, the lover of a trans rock star named Hedwig, in
the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an adaptation of John Cameron
Mitchell's 1998 stage musical. Although not his first film role,
Pitt's performance as Gnosis led to a series of supporting roles in
many acclaimed and often controversial films, including Larry Clark's
Bully, Murder by Numbers, and Funny Games, a remake of Michael
Haneke's 1997 film of the same name. One of Pitt's more notable roles
was as the lead in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers.Pitt attributes
his success in films to a combination of hard work and the presence of
"a few angels in my life." He has also stressed that he chooses roles
not with the hope that they will garner commercial success or to gain
notoriety but to create art, challenge the audience, and ultimately
contribute to a project that he is proud of:
and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Murder by Numbers
(2002), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Gus Van Sant's Last
Days (2005) and Michael Haneke's Funny Games (2007), and in television
for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama Dawson's Creek
(1999â€"2000), Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
(2010â€"2011) and Mason Verger in the second season of the NBC series
Hannibal (2014). He has also appeared in the films Hedwig and the
Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001), Silk (2007), Seven Psychopaths
(2012), I Origins (2014), and Ghost in the Shell (2017).Michael Carmen
Pitt was born on April 10, 1981 in West Orange, New Jersey to Donald
B. Pitt, an auto mechanic, and Eleanor Carol (née DeMaio) Pitt, a
waitress. He has two older sisters, Allison and Stacey and one older
brother, Brian. Pitt is of Italian and Irish heritage on his mother's
side, and of English descent on his father's. By age 16, Pitt had been
to three or four different high schools and was in 'special classes'
before ultimately dropping out. He also did a brief stint at the Essex
County Youth House, a detention center.In 2001, Pitt earned a breakout
role as Tommy Gnosis, the lover of a trans rock star named Hedwig, in
the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an adaptation of John Cameron
Mitchell's 1998 stage musical. Although not his first film role,
Pitt's performance as Gnosis led to a series of supporting roles in
many acclaimed and often controversial films, including Larry Clark's
Bully, Murder by Numbers, and Funny Games, a remake of Michael
Haneke's 1997 film of the same name. One of Pitt's more notable roles
was as the lead in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers.Pitt attributes
his success in films to a combination of hard work and the presence of
"a few angels in my life." He has also stressed that he chooses roles
not with the hope that they will garner commercial success or to gain
notoriety but to create art, challenge the audience, and ultimately
contribute to a project that he is proud of:
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