Glenn Fitzgerald Explained

Glenn Fitzgerald
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1994–present

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

Career

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 Renée 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 ; 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.

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.

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 Theatre 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.

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, , , and .

Filmography

Film

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
1996Manny & LoJoey
1996Flirting with DisasterLonnie Schlichting
1997Rhinoceros Hunting in BudapestYoung Man
1997Arresting GenaMan / Pimp
1997The Ice StormNeil Conrad
1998A Price Above RubiesMendel Horowitz
1999Judy BerlinTour Guide
1999The Sixth SenseSean
2000101 Ways (the Things a Girl Will Do to Keep Her Volvo)Jack
2000TullyEarl CoatesAlso photographer
2000Finding ForresterMassie
2001The BelieverDrake
2001Jeff
2001Buffalo SoldiersHicks
200240 Days and 40 NightsChris
2002Igby Goes DownSurfer Tommy
2005Bittersweet PlaceMoshe
2005Trust the ManGoren
2005ConfessGreg Lanser
2006The MemsahibCaptain Nelson Roberts
2007Lovely by SurpriseCustomer #2
2007Neal CassadyJack Kerouac
2017DetroitHomicide Detective Anderson

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1994New York UndercoverHenricksonEpisode: "Sins of the Father"
1995New York NewsScarEpisode: "New York News"
1995, 2001Law & OrderSeth Teitel / Merril Grupp2 episodes
1997Jeff McGinnEpisode: "Diener"
2001The Atlantis ConspiracyPatientTelevision film
2002Six Feet UnderAaron Buchbinder3 episodes
2004Spencer FarnellEpisode: "The Posthumous Collection"
2004WonderfallsBank RobberEpisode: "Caged Bird"
2007–2009Dirty Sexy MoneyRev. Brian Darling23 episodes
2010Chip FordEpisode: "Sudden Death"
2011The CapeConrad Chandler / The Lich2 episodes
2011Drop Dead DivaNathan PerskyEpisode: "Closure"
2012PerceptionLeo AttingerEpisode: "Light"
2013ElementaryLinus RoeEpisode: "Solve for X"
2015Madam SecretaryReverend Wesley FinchEpisode: "The Time Is at Hand"
2016BillionsManager #3Episode: "The Conversation"
2018The Good CopFather Kokesh2 episodes
2020Lt. Mike PeroniEpisode: "Ironbound"

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