Michael Pitt

Michael Pitt

Birth : 1981-04-10, West Orange, New Jersey, USA

History

An American actor, model and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005), Michael Haneke's Funny Games (2007) and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004), and in television for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama Dawson's Creek, Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Mason Verger in the NBC series Hannibal. He has also appeared in the films Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001), Silk (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and I Origins (2014). His most recent appearance is in the film Ghost in the Shell (2017).

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Michael Pitt
Michael Pitt

Movies

Day of the Fight
Follow a once-renowned boxer as he embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight since his release from prison.
The Last Days of American Crime
Kevin Cash
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.
Run with the Hunted
Oscar
Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to runaway from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. He escapes to the nearest city, where he is inducted into a gang of child street thieves. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, murder, and corruption. 15 years later, he has forgotten his past and become the leader of this band of lost children. When Loux moves to the city in search of work, she takes a job with a struggling private investigator. Stumbling upon Oscar's missing child report, she takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.
Ocean's Eight
Unit Production Manager
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
Detective Chinatown 2
Dr. Springfield
Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren (by Wang Baoqiang) tricked Qin Feng (by Liu Haoran) to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest,. Later on, behind the crazy competition, Qin and Tang discovered the real hidden facts of this contest.
Ghost in the Shell
Kuze / Hideo
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Criminal
Jan Strook - The Dutchman
CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
Criminal Activities
Executive Producer
Four young men make a risky investment together that gets them into trouble with the mob.
Criminal Activities
Zach
Four young men make a risky investment together that gets them into trouble with the mob.
The Driver
Music
THE DRIVER is a film noir, contemplating the darker side of chasing the American dream.
The Driver
Producer
THE DRIVER is a film noir, contemplating the darker side of chasing the American dream.
The Driver
Writer
THE DRIVER is a film noir, contemplating the darker side of chasing the American dream.
The Driver
Director
THE DRIVER is a film noir, contemplating the darker side of chasing the American dream.
The Driver
Carmen
THE DRIVER is a film noir, contemplating the darker side of chasing the American dream.
Macadam Stories
John McKenzie
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
The Smell of Us
Street Musician
Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
Big Stone Gap
Producer
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
I Origins
Executive Producer
A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.
I Origins
Ian Gray
A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.
Rob the Mob
Executive Producer
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Rob the Mob
Tommy Uva
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Seven Psychopaths
Larry
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Hugo
Projectionist (uncredited)
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Funny Games
Paul
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Silk
Hervé Joncour
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
The Hawk Is Dying
Fred
A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.
Delirious
Toby Grace
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.
Last Days
Blake
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Buddy
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
The Village
Finton Coin
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Jailbait
Randy
Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs Randy that he slit his wife's throat because she slept with another man just three months after they exchanged vows. Jake recognizes Randy's fear and offers him advice on how to make it in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Jake has much more than mentoring in mind as he takes Randy under his wing. "Jailbait" sets a darkly cerebral tone, juxtaposing brutality with the unattainable ideal of intimacy in the harshest of psychological environments. For these two men so yearning to be anything but who they are and where they are, power is the goal, and it's never clear who truly holds it right up to the last unsettling moment
Rhinoceros Eyes
Chep
Rhinoceros Eyes is a fantastical coming-of-age story revolving around Chep, a young, reclusive prop-house employee who falls in love with a detail-obsessed movie production designer named Fran. Fran's need for authentic props sends Chep to great and questionable lengths as he tries to satisfy her requests, and ultimately... win her heart.
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes “The Dreamers”
Self
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
The Making of Last Days
Himself
Behind-the-scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant's "Last Days."
Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Himself
Documentary about the creation of the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation.
The Dreamers
Matthew
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
The Yellow Bird
Stuff
A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.
Murder by Numbers
Justin Pendleton
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Tommy Gnosis
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”
Bully
Donny Semenex
A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.
Finding Forrester
John Coleridge
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
Mambo Café
Teenage Male
A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
Hi-Life
Boy Teen
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.
54
Dance Student (uncredited)
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar – and a front-row seat at the most legendary party on the planet.
Reptile
A hardened New England detective investigates a case where nothing is as it seems, and which begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.
Black Flies
Young paramedic Ollie Cross is partnered with experienced medic Rutkovsky, who thrusts him into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets. Amidst high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, Ollie finds his perspective on life and death beginning to shift.
You Can't Win
Jack Black
A drama set in the 1920s hobo underworld and centered on the unusual friendship between an adventurer and a young prostitute alongside Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century.
You Can't Win
Screenplay
A drama set in the 1920s hobo underworld and centered on the unusual friendship between an adventurer and a young prostitute alongside Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century.
The Sleeping Shepherd
The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.