Michael Pitt

Blonde, blue eyes and Pitt by name, make you think about the family origin of this boy. But no, young Michael is not related to Hollywood star Brad Pitt . In fact, his full name contains one more anecdote for the Spanish public, since his second name is Carmen, something curious, considering that he is a boy. He was born in West Orange (New Jersey) on April 10, 1981. When he was 16 years old, he moved to New York ready to fulfill his dream of being an actor. He came to the Big Apple with very little money and no place to stay. His first source of income was riding a bicycle as a messenger. Thanks to this money he took some acting classes, although he didn’t have to wait long to get his first chance at it. It was in 1998 in the television seriesLaw and order . That same year she participated as an extra in the film starring Ryan Phillippe 54 . His role consisted of being one of those who danced in the popular disco.

His first big break came in 1999 when he was cast as Henry Parker in the television series Dawson’s Grows . This secondary role led him to fall in love with one of the protagonists played by Michelle Williams . Only a year later came his first big movie break when Gus Van Sant cast him as a supporting role in Finding Forrester , a film starring Sean Connery . From then on he spun a series of inconsequential titles such as The Yellow Bird (2001), the first and only film directed by actress Faye Dunaway . Of higher quality was Murder… 1-2-3 (2002), where he along withRyan Gosling was planning a murder. Then Bernardo Bertolucci called him to star in the controversial Dreamers (2003). In this highly erotic tape, he coincided with future Bond girl Eva Green . The film takes place in French May 1968 and has a love triangle as the center of the story. Aware of the high sexual content, Pitt acknowledges that this European production represented a great risk in his career “both for the American public and for the big studios.”

His decision to play Matthew did not have a negative impact on his career and in 2004 he was requested by M. Night Shyamalan to participate as a supporting role in The Forest . So whoever gave him his first big break on film, Gus Van Sant, offered him an attractive character in Last Days .(2005). To date this has been the best interpretation of Pitt, who got into the skin of the ‘alter ego’ of Kurt Cobain, leader of Nirvana, on the last day of his life. The documentary-style film is of excellent quality, as is Michael’s work, who knew how to provide the character with the complex details typical of someone who is sick. Presumably he had to help compose the character the fact that Michael himself sings and plays the guitar in the group Pagoda.

After his great work in Last Days , he continued down the path of complex characters in The Hawk is Diving (2006), where he played Paul Giamatti ‘s autistic son while coinciding again with Michelle Williams. That same year he relived his youth when he played a homeless man who wanted to be an actor in Delirious (2006). He has just premiered Seda in Spain , a drama set in the 19th century where he has been the husband of the popular Keira Knightley . At the last Sundance Festival he premiered Funny Games US , the review that Michael Haneke himself has done ten years laterof his shocking horror film. As for his future projects, Pitt is scheduled to star in Abel Ferrara ‘s Pericle il Nero , a crime drama about a 1970s drug lord.

The roles that Pitt chooses are revealing of his personality, because as he affirms “I only make movies that I like. I mean, I make movies that I would like to go see.”