Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota area

Began acting as a child with local theater companies

Appeared in national TV commercials

Played the troubled teenaged son of the title character in the series "Cracker" (ABC)

Feature acting debut as Jamie Lee Curtis' son in "Halloween: H2O"; scripted by Kevin Williamson

Appeared in a TV commercial for Tommy Hilfiger clothing, directed by Kevin Williamson

Co-starred as Zeke in the sci-fi film "The Faculty"; also scripted by Williamson

Had featured role in Sofia Coppola's directorial debut "The Virgin Suicides" (released theatrically in 2000)

Played the barber son of Yorkshire hairdressers Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in "Blow Dry"

Played a pilot who falls in love with his best friend's girl in the WWII drama "Pearl Harbor"

Co-starred in an updated retelling of "Othello" titled "O" (filmed in 1999); directed by Tim Blake Nelson; played the Iago character named Hugo

Hired by producer Bruckheimer to play a soldier in the fact-based drama "Black Hawk Down"

Portrayed a young man who gives up sex for Lent and then meets his dream girl in the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights"

Along with Harrison Ford, co-starred in the summer comedy "Hollywood Homicide"

Starred opposite Diane Kruger and Rose Byrne in "Wicker Park"

Cast as an unnamed character in the adaptation of Frank Miller's stories "Sin City"; co-directed by Miller and Robert Rodriguez

Played the lead in "Lucky Number Slevin," a thriller that co-starring Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and Bruce Willis

Played detective, Bucky Bleichert in "The Black Dahlia," Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's classic noir novel

Will co-star in "August" as one of two brothers working on Wall Street a month before 9/11 (lensed 2007)

Co-starred in the boxing film "Resurrecting the Champ"

Co-starred in "30 Days of Night," a horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name

Made London's West End debut in a stage adaptation of the popular film "Rain Man"

Co-starred in the drama feature, "August"