Patrick Fugit

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Patrick Fugit

Fugit holding a producer credit for The 1 Second Film in November 2006
Born Patrick Raymond Fugit
October 27, 1982 (1982-10-27) (age 25)
Flag of the United States Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Patrick Raymond Fugit (born October 27, 1982) is an American actor best known for his performance in the lead role of Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous.

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[edit] Biography

Fugit was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jan, a dance teacher, and Bruce Fugit, an electrical engineer.[1] He is of mostly Irish ancestry.[2] As a child, Fugit studied ballet at his mother's dance studio.[1]

Making his acting debut in a school production while in the seventh grade (he played the shoemaker in The Twelve Dancing Princesses), the sandy-haired, blue-eyed young performer pursued an acting career and landed guest roles on episodes of Promised Land and Touched By an Angel (both from CBS) in 1998. That same year he was a meal for hungry insects in the Fox TV-movie Legion of Fire: Killer Ants. Work in the more mild-mannered Beyond the Prairie: the True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (CBS) followed in 2000.

Later that year, audiences were introduced to this virtual unknown when he capably carried the starring role in Almost Famous. As William Miller, neophyte Fugit used inexperience to his advantage, with the young rock-fan-turned-reporter's awe at being on tour with a band no doubt mirroring the actor's own wonderment at his debut feature experience. Although his knowledge of 1970s rock music was nil ("I actually thought Led Zeppelin was one person") and the perils of puberty threatened to wreak havoc on the film's continuity (Fugit got significantly taller and his voice much lower while the feature was in production), Crowe's casting choice was vindicated when Fugit's performance was almost universally critically praised.

With a high-profile feature debut to his credit, the young actor found his next roles playing a sweetly geeky, aspiring comic book artist in White Oleander (2002) and a naive young drug addict in the indie dark comedy Spun (2003). His next film, Saved! (2004), a satirical look at the religious right in high school, cast him as the cool young pastor's son and love interest to a pregnant, once-popular teen (Jena Malone) who must re-evaluate her moral positions. In 2005 he co-starred in The Amateurs, an independent comedy about a sleepy town that comes together to film a porno, and in 2007 he co-starred with Shannyn Sossamon in the controversal indie film, Wristcutters: A Love Story.

[edit] Personal life

Patrick lives in Los Angeles with his parents and two siblings. He is in a band called Mushman.[3]

Patrick is also studying flamenco guitar which he can be heard playing on the Cavedoll song "MAYDAY".[4]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Patrick Fugit Biography - Yahoo! Movies
  2. ^ Saved Movie - Patrick Fugit and Heather Matarazzo Interview
  3. ^ MySpace.com - Mushman - SALT LAKE CITY, US - Indie / Folk Rock - www.myspace.com/mushmanstories
  4. ^ - Cavedoll on iTunes - SALT LAKE CITY, US - Indie Rock - http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=276369944

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