Name: Michael Pitt
Born: 1981
Hometown: West Orange, New Jersey
Last Seen: As Ryan Gosling's geeky partner in crime in Murder by Numbers; as glam-goth rocker Tommy Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Up Next: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers; newcomer Aaron Woodley's Rhinocros Eyes
You Want Fries With That Mr. Van Der Beek? Pitt says he hated the year he spent playing a football jock on Dawson's Creek. "I felt like I was 15, working at McDonald's again."
In His Spare Time: "I want to put out an album, I want to write a novel, I want to direct, I want to write scripts..."
He's Wearing: Vintage Levi's and belt from What Comes Around Goes Around.