Natural inside West Orange, New Jersey, Michael Pitt is the youngest of four tykes. At age Tenner, he announced to his parents that he wished to turn into an actor. He moved to New York City from New Jersey whenever he was 16 years old, in which he took the job as a bike messenger and lived in the a single-bedroom flat sustaining nine others.

Around 1999, Pitt made his off-Broadway debut in the play The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at the New York Theatre Workshop. The casting professional found him & recommended him for the role on the television series ''Dawson's Creek. His gaolbreak role as the a lover of a transgendered rock star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2001 led to supporting roles in mainstream Hollywood fare such as Bully and Murder by Numbers'', when well as a lead inside Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers. Within his latest motion picture, Last Days he plays a heroin-addicted, suicidal rock star, a a portion sculpturesque when Kurt Cobain.

He is for instance referred to as a "poor man's Leonardo DiCaprio".

Partial filmography
Last Days (2005) The Village (2004) The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) The Dreamers (2003) Murder by Numbers (2002) Bully (2001) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Finding Forrester (2000) 54 (1998)