Michael Pitt is known for his role in a 2005 American drama that was directed by Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of a musician, loosely based on who?
Michael Pitt Michael Carmen Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" (2003), Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" (2005), Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" (2007) and M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" (2004), and in television for his roles as Henry Parker in the teen drama "Dawson's Creek", Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" and Mason Verger in the NBC series "Hannibal". He has also appeared in the films "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2001), "Bully" (2001), "Silk" (2007), "Seven Psychopaths" (2012) and "I Origins" (2014). His most recent appearance is in the film "Ghost in the Shell" (2017).
Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).