Patrick Fugit

Patrick Fugit
Fugit in November 2006
Born	Patrick Raymond Fugit October 27, 1982 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Patrick Raymond Fugit (born October 27, 1982) is an American actor.

Personal life

Fugit was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. His mother, Jan Clark-Fugit, is a dance teacher and his father, Bruce is an electrical engineer.^[1][2] Fugit is the oldest of three children, he has a younger sister, Jocelyn and a younger brother, Colin. Fugit attended East High School, where he was diagnosed with ADHD.^[2] Fugit appeared in a school production of The Twelve Dancing Princesses as the shoemaker, while he was at grade seven. He has been a skateboarder since the age of 15.^[2] In the film Saved!, his role for Patrick Wheeler was originally supposed to be a surfer, but the character was changed to a skateboarder due to Fugit's skateboarding experience.^[3] Fugit and his best friend, David Fetzer formed "Mushman" by "accident". It was described as a blend of folk and rock. He plays the guitar, sometimes sings and studies flamenco guitar, which he played on the Cavedoll song "MAYDAY" and his song "Brennan's Theme" for the ending scene in Wristcutters: A Love Story.

Career

Fugit began acting on television, guest-starring in Promised Land and Touched by an Angel. Later, he starred in the Fox television film, Legion of Fire: Killer Ants and in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Fugit made his film debut as a young rock-fan-turned-reporter in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. He later claimed that his knowledge of 1970s rock music was nil ("I actually thought Led Zeppelin was one person"). Fugit declined the title role in Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko and went to Jake Gyllenhaal. Fugit played a sweetly geeky, aspiring comic book artist in White Oleander (2002) and a naive drug addict in the indie dark comedy Spun (2003). His next film, Saved! (2004), was a satirical look at the religious right in high school. Fugit played the cool young pastor's skateboarding 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. Fugit and Olivia Wilde starred in Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas and House, M.D.. In 2007, he co-starred with Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story,and played Evra Von in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009). In November 2010, Fugit starred in Cameron Crowe's adaptation of Benjamin Mee's We Bought a Zoo (2011).^[4] Fugit played Officer James Gilpin in Gone Girl (2014).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Almost Famous	William Miller
2002	Spun	Frisbee
2002	White Oleander	Paul Trout
2004	Saved!	Patrick Wheeler
2004	Dead Birds	Sam
2005	The Amateurs	Emmett	Alternative title: The Moguls
2006	Wristcutters: A Love Story	Zia
2006	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas	Bickford Shmeckler
2007	The Good Life	Andrew
2009	Horsemen	Cory
2009	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Evra the Snake Boy
2011	We Bought a Zoo	Robin Jones
2012	Thanks for Sharing	Danny
2013	Reckless	David Harrison
2014	Gone Girl	Officer James Gilpin
2014	The List	Alex
2015	Queen of Earth	Rich

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997–98	Touched by an Angel	Boy #1 / Joey	2 episodes
1998	Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!	Scott Blount	Television film
2001	MADtv	William Miller	Episode: 6.19
2003	ER	Sean Simmons	3 episodes
2005	Everything You Want	Customer	Television film Alternative title: Love Surreal
2006	House, M.D.	Jack Walters	Episode: "Whac-A-Mole"
2011	Cinema Verite	Alan Raymond	Television film
2016	Outcast	Kyle Barnes	Lead role

References

1. Patrick Fugit Biography – Yahoo! Movies. Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-06.
2. Saved Movie – Patrick Fugit and Heather Matarazzo Interview. Movies.about.com (2012-04-13). Retrieved on 2012-05-06.
3. Saved Movie – Patrick Fugit and Heather Matarazzo Interview. Movies.about.com (2012-04-13). Retrieved on 2012-05-06.
4. Punch Drunk Critics. Punch Drunk Critics (2010–11). Retrieved on 2012-05-06.

External links

• Patrick Fugit at the Internet Movie Database