Biography 

                Michael is a New York resident since age sixteen who was born on April 10, 1981 in New Jersey. He always knew that he wanted to be an actor so he moved to New York to pursuit his career. Michael first movie was a 10-minute flick by a friend who was a student at New York University's Summer Filmmakers. The short flick is a  mock-documentary about a boy who decides to make a movie about his own life. 

                The Dawson's Creek star only spent four hours in Los Angeles of his life - the four hours he spent auditioning for the show's producers. "I put myself on tape and sent it out there, and from the breakdown I thought it was two episodes or something like that," Pitt says. "Then they called me back with an offer, and they flew me out to L.A. and I read for them. They told me in the office that I got it."
                Yet the time he's spent so far in Capeside as the awkward but sweet Henry Parker is transporting him into the sphere of young actors, just as appearing on Dawson's has done for his co-stars. Chalk that up as yet another show business paradox; you don't have to love La-La Land to be considered successful there. "You walk in, one day you're a schizophrenic," he says of his personal acting philosophy. "It's kind of like therapy. It's something that I've always wanted to do. I've always enjoyed figuring out characters and experimenting. Then when I realized I could do it as a professional, it was like, 'Wow.' I feel so lucky and grateful for that."
                "I hope I can stay [in New York]," he says. "L.A.'s really pretty; it's too pretty. It reminds me of a postcard. I went to In & Out Burger when I was there. It's a fast food restaurant they have on the coast and it's supposedly the best fast food restaurant. It was pretty good. They don't have it over here. It was a California treat. The burgers are big." The character of Henry is a bit of a paradox himself.. Most of the teenagers on Dawson's Creek think they know everything about life. Pitt's favorite Henry moment so far has focused on the character's bumbling nature, another stereotypical part of adolescent growth that other Capeside teens seem to have avoided. "It was funny when he falls off the roof, and he's entangled in Christmas lights," says Pitt.

                Like his fellow Dawson's Creek cast members, he's sure to become a staple of teen magazine pin-up pages, but he's not sure if he's ready yet for such close scrutiny. "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know," he says before breaking out into laughter. "It's not really something that I focus on. I want people to take me seriously."

                Even though the 18 year old Michael Pitt is not staring in Dawson's Creek or on any show, I think this is just the begging for Michael-the best is yet to come for this new great actor. Welcome to Hollywood Michael=).

• He had a bit role in '54'  (he was in the dance class-the one that was pulled out in front and did sort of a nerdy Travolta thing)

• He has auditioned for an upcoming Robert DeNiro film, "The Score".

• Last summer he appeared in the off Broadway play, Tresle At Pope's Creek

• He was born in West Orange, NJ on April 10, 1981 and is 18 years old, the
  baby of the cast and his sign is Aries.

• Currently lives in Brooklyn NY when not filming DC .

• Michael is the youngest of four children-two sister and one brother.

• Michael wanted to be a singer.
  

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