Born in Manhasset, New York

Raised in south Florida and Texas

Filmed first feature role in "Grind" (released 1997)

Broadway debut as the Byronic tutor of a female mathematics genius in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia"

Played a small role in Woody Allen's musical, "Everyone Says I Love You"

Co-starred in Barry Levinson's "Sleepers"

Co-starred with Mary-Louise Parker in Broadway revival of William Inge's "Bus Stop"

Had featured role as the charming and sexy Jacey Holt in "Inventing the Abbotts"

Portrayed Solyoni in the Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters"

First Hollywood lead, the role of runner Steve Prefontaine in Robert Towne's "Without Limits"

Co-starred with Woody Harrelson, as post-war ranchers in the American Southwest, in Stephen Frears' "The Hi-Lo Country"

Played a stoned Irish gangster in Ted Demme's "Monument Ave."

Played the lead role, opposite Frances McDormand, in the Off-Broadway staging of "Oedipus Rex"

Turned down the role of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho"

Cast as a drug addicted drifter in the festival screened, "Jesus' Son" (released theatrically in 2000)

Starred as Kennedy-esque political figure in Keith Gordon's "Waking the Dead"

Played Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of the fictional band Stillwater in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous"

Played the lead role in the New York Shakespeare Festival staging of "Measure for Measure" in Central Park

Acted opposite Julianne Moore in "World Traveler"; screened at Toronto Film Festival

Starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Gillian Armstrong's "Charlotte Gray"

Headlined a Broadway revival of the award-winning play, "The Elephant Man"; earned a Tony nomination

Portrayed Albert Finney's son in Tim Burton's "Big Fish"

Cast opposite Claire Danes in "Stage Beauty"; based on the play by Jeffrey Hatcher

Co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the Broadway production of "The Pillowman"; earned a Tony nomination

Appeared opposite Tom Cruise in the J.J. Abrams-directed, "Mission: Impossible III"

Played British spy Arch Cummings in Robert De Niro's long-anticipated, "The Good Shepherd"

Portrayed literary critic Vissarion Belinsky in the first two parts of Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center

Co-starred in Justin Theroux's directing debut, "Dedication"

Played the iconic superhero Doctor Manhattan in the film adaptation of "Watchmen"