Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model, and musician. Pitt is best known for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005), Michael Haneke's Funny Games (2007) and for portraying Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011).
In films, he has also appeared in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001), Murder by Numbers (2002), Silk (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), I Origins (2014), and Ghost in the Shell (2017). Other television roles he is known for are Henry Parker in the teen drama Dawson's Creek (1999–2000) and Mason Verger in the second season of the NBC series Hannibal (2014).
Early life
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 and one older brother. 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, among them Morris Catholic High School, and was in "special classes" before ultimately dropping out. He also did a brief stint at the Essex County...More about Michael Pitt...
