Patrick Fugit
Gender: Male
Born: 27th October 1982 (currently 29 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Almost Famous, Dead Birds, Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!, Saved!, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Spun, White Oleander, The Amateurs, The Horsemen, The Good Life, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, We Bought a Zoo, Cinema Verite, Living with Lew, Thanks for Sharing
Patrick Raymond Fugit (born October 27, 1982) is an American actor best known for his debut performance in the lead role of Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous.
Making his acting debut in a school production while in the seventh grade (he played the shoemaker in The Twelve Dancing Princesses), Fugit 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 television 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.
Fugit became much more widely known when he was cast in the starring role in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, playing a young rock-fan-turned-reporter. He later claimed that his knowledge of 1970s rock music was nil ("I actually thought Led Zeppelin was one person"). Fugit's performance was widely praised. Before Almost Famous was released, he auditioned for the title role in Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. The role eventually went to Jake Gyllenhaal.
Fugit later played a sweetly geeky, aspiring comic book artist in White Oleander (2002) and a naive
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