Birthdate: April 10, 1981.
Place of Birth: West Orange, New Jersey.
Trivia: Michael Pitt's band Pagoda just recorded its first demo.
Indie Actor Dreams Big: Michael Pitt is one of America's fastest rising stars. In Gus Van Sant's acclaimed "LAST DAYS," based on the life of Kurt Cobain, Pitt stars as Blake, an introspective artist whose success has left him in a lonely place. Pitt also starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's lush coming of age drama "THE DREAMERS" opposite Eva Green and Louis Garrel.
In the summer of 2000, Pitt was chosen as one of the Twenty-Five New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine for being cast as Tommy Gnosis in the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Award Winner HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. He went on to work with controversial film director Larry Clark in the 2001 summer release of BULLY and director Gus Van Sant in FINDING FORRESTER. Pitt co-starred with Sandra Bullock in MURDER BY NUMBERS directed by internationally acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder. His current projects include starring roles in Aaron Woodley’s RHINOCEROS EYES, which won the Discovery Award at 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, JAILBAIT which completed production in the summer of 2003 in New York City; and THE VILLAGE directed by M. Night Shayamalan.
Pitt’s roots lie in theatre and in the summer of 1999 Michael made his off-Broadway and stage debut starring as Dalton in New York Theatre Workshop's production of "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek" written by Naomi Wallace. Pitt again worked with Naomi Wallace in the US Theatrical premiere of BIRDY at Duke University. Other theather credits include the Off Broadway American Premiere of MONSTER an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein .
Pitt has also worked with Faye Dunaway in the short film THE YELLOW BIRD. Other film credits include MAMBO CAFE and HI LIFE. Television credits include a guest star role on LAW & ORDER: Special Victims Unit, and a recurring special guest-star on DAWSON'S CREEK. Among his talents Michael is also an artist, writer, musician and filmmaker and has just recorded his first demo with is band PAGODA.
