Patrick Fugit

Acting

Patrick Fugit

Born

1982-10-27 (43)

Place of birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Patrick Raymond Fugit (born October 27, 1982) is an American actor best known for his performance in the lead role of Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous (2000). Since then, he has also appeared in the films White Oleander (2002), Spun (2003), Saved! (2004), Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), We Bought a Zoo (2011) and Babylon (2022). Fugit also portrayed Kyle Barnes in the Cinemax series Outcast.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 12 titles

Gone Girl poster
7.9

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Gone Girl

2014

We Bought a Zoo poster
6.8

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

We Bought a Zoo

2011

First Man poster
7.0

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

First Man

2018

Thanks for Sharing poster
6.0

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon—sex addiction.

Thanks for Sharing

2013

Robert the Bruce poster
5.5

In 1306, Scottish King Robert the Bruce turns a defeated outlaw when his country is invaded. But before to free his sacred land, he must manage to regain his will to fight back and survive the persecution of those who want take his head and the English gold.

Robert the Bruce

2019

Cinema Verite poster
5.7

In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.

Cinema Verite

2011

Alex & the List poster
5.4

Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex instinctively rejects the suggestion that he needs to change anything. But with the threat of a new competitor, Alex decides to "do the list." Guided by a coterie of friends that include: Dave, Alex's loyal childhood buddy, best female friend Lily, her husband Michael, and their 8 year old son, Nicky, Alex's journey has him reconsider and question his beliefs, values and world.

Alex & the List

2018

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize poster
3.8

A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2010

Queen of Earth poster
6.0

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Queen of Earth

2015

Rita Mahtoubian is Not a Terrorist poster
NR

When Iranian-born Rita Mahtoubian sets out to change her life from ordinary to extraordinary, she accidentally captures the attention of a homeland security agent in this satirical comedy about romance, terrorism and trying to be a better person.

Rita Mahtoubian is Not a Terrorist

2015

The Strongest Man poster
6.2

An anxiety-ridden Cuban man who fancies himself the strongest man in the world attempts to recover his most prized possession, a stolen bicycle. On his quest, he finds and loses much more.

The Strongest Man

2015

A Name Without a Place poster
NR

While retracing his late-brother's footsteps through the Florida Keys, a sheltered young man stumbles upon the secret estate of a narcissistic recluse.

A Name Without a Place

2019

2000s · 12 titles

Almost Famous poster
7.5

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

Almost Famous

2000

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant poster
5.9

When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009

White Oleander poster
7.0

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

White Oleander

2002

Wristcutters: A Love Story poster
7.0

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.

Wristcutters: A Love Story

2007

The Amateurs poster
5.6

Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.

The Amateurs

2006

Horsemen poster
6.0

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Horsemen

2009

Saved! poster
6.4

Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.

Saved!

2004

Dead Birds poster
5.7

Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

Dead Birds

2005

Spun poster
6.6

Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.

Spun

2003

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas poster
5.5

When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

2006

The Good Life poster
6.5

A movie about the travails of Jason (Mark Webber), a young gas station attendant and movie projectionist living in Nebraska. His encounters with various social difficulties and with Frances (Zooey Deschanel), a beautiful and enigmatic young woman leads to dramatic changes and decisions in his life.

The Good Life

2007

Living with Lew poster
6.0

A young Hollywood writer/director uses humor and unfailing optimism to fight ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and make his first film.

Living with Lew

2007

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