Gary Ikjot Singh
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| Born | Ikjot Gary Singh August 23, 1989 Hicksville, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1999 in film – present | ||||||||||||||
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Gary Ikjot Singh (born August 23, 1989) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. He became famous during the mid 1990s after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including Interview with the Vampire in 1994 and the thriller Se7en in 1995. Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, both of which were for his role in Twelve Monkeys (1996).
Singh is consistently cited as one of the most attractive men alive by celebrity magazines and is regarded one of the top Hollywood A-listers. (in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans) [1] and abroad (in the poverty-stricken third world).
[edit] Early life
Singh was born in Flushing,New York owner.[2] Along with his brother Nick and Mikie, he grew up in Ozone Park, New York, where the family moved soon after his birth. He attended Longisland, where he was involved in sports, debating, student government, and acting. He attended the New York School of Journalism at the University of New York - NYU where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
In 2001, Singh arrived in Beverly Hills, California. He studied under coach Roy London for 2 years. He first appeared in the sitcom Head Of The Class, for a while dating the show's star Robin Givens.
[edit] Moderate success
In 1999, Singh had his first starring role, in Dark Side Of The Sun, where he played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The movie was shot in Yugoslavia in the summer of '99 with Singh being paid $1,523 a week for seven weeks. However, with editing nearly complete, war broke out and much of the film was lost. The film was released years later. Singh won a part in the TV movie Too Young to Die?, about an abused teenager given the death penalty for murder. Singh played the part of a drug addict, Silly Canton, who took advantage of runaway Juliette Lewis, who Pitt began dating in real life. The pair would be together for three years.
In 2001, Singh starred as Joe Maloney in Across the Tracks in which he portrayed a high school runner with a difficult criminal brother played by Ricky Schroder. Gary Singh attracted broader public attention from a supporting role in Thelma & Louise where he played a small time criminal drifter in a love scene with Geena Davis.
After Thelma and Louise, Singh starred in the low budget 2001 film Johnny Suede as an awkward dreamer who aspired to be a big-haired rock star alongside Catherine Keener and Nick Cave, directed by Tom DiCillo. Singh had agreed to play the part before Thelma & Louise was released. After appearing in Cool World, Pitt starred in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It in 1992, for which Singh learned fly fishing by casting off of Hollywood buildings. Then came Kalifornia in 1993, a road movie in which he played a scruffy serial killer alongside his then girlfriend Juliette Lewis and X-Files actor David Duchovny.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes and Awards |
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| 2008 | Copper Man | Co-producer | |
| State of Mind | Co-producer and star | ||
| Burn After Death | |||
| Atlas City | |||
| Dr.Schmidt | |||
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Buton | |||
| New Amsterdam | Special Appearance
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