Leo FitzpatrickNationality:
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00/00/1978 Birthplace:
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biography
In a depressing case of art imitating life, Leo Fitzpatrick was a morally corrupt, deliquent teenage skateboarder when he was picked by writer/director Larry Clark to play the conniving and recklessly disinterested star of his disturbing 1995 film "Kids." A native of Orange, New Jersey (population: 29,000), Fitzpatrick was a regular skateboarder in Manhattan by the age of 14. He hung around with other skateboard kids, mostly semi-vagrants who came from unhappy homes and looked to each other for a sense of family and belonging. In the early 90's, Larry Clark began hanging around this scene,
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1995
Made feature acting debut in "Kids", playing Telly, the street tough whose idea of safe sex is to sleep with virgins; first screen collaboration with director Larry Clark
1998
Had small role in the Clark-directed drama "Another Day in Paradise"
2000
Had memorable guest appearance on "The Practice"
2001
Starred with Selma Blair in the controversial "Storytelling", director Todd Solondz's follow-up to "Happiness"; featured in the section called "Fiction", playing a college student with cerebral palsy
2001
Reteamed with Larry Clark for a pivotal role as 'The Hitman' in "Bully", inspired by a true life incident
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