Glenn Fitzgerald

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Glenn Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald in 2019
BornDecember 21, 1971 (1971-12-21) (age 49)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1994–present

Glenn Fitzgerald (born December 21, 1971) is an American actor of stage, film, and television.

His film roles have included: Homicide Detective Anderson in Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit; Lonnie, the son of Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin's characters in Flirting with Disaster; Neil, the boy at the "key party" that goes home with Sigourney Weaver's character in The Ice Storm; the Hasidic scholar husband of Renee Zellweger's character in A Price Above Rubies; the uptight assistant to Sean Connery's character in Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester; and the earnest antique dealer in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. He has played diverse roles in several independent films, including a terminally ill pacifist forced to fight for his life in Series 7: The Contenders; a sociopathic skinhead opposite Ryan Gosling in The Believer; the sensitive, kind brother in Tully ; and the reckless, drug-addled tank commander opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Buffalo Soldiers.[citation needed]

Between film jobs, Fitzgerald built a stage career, originating roles in Jon Robin Baitz's Mizlansky/Zilinsky, opposite Nathan Lane and directed by Joe Mantello; Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero (Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor); Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses with Tracy Letts and Parker Posey, directed by Sam Gold; Melissa James Gibson's THIS at Playwrights Horizons with Julianne Nicholson; David Lindsay-Abaire's Ripcord directed by David Hyde Pierce with Holland Taylor; and Sharr White’s The True with Edie Falco at The New Group.[citation needed]

He has appeared in innovative productions of classic plays such as Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop directed by Ivo van Hove; The Importance of Being Earnest at Williamstown Theater Festival directed by David Hyde Pierce and starring Tyne Daly; Classic Stage Company's Ivanov and Hamlet directed by Austin Pendleton alongside Ethan Hawke and Peter Sarsgaard and Othello at New York Theatre Workshop directed by Sam Gold.[citation needed]

Television credits includes series regular Brian Darling on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, and guest starring roles on Six Feet Under, Billions, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide: Life on the Street, CSI:Miami and FBI: Most Wanted .

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