2011 | Cast as Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" |
2010 | Starred in "Predators," a sequel to cult favorites "Predator" (1987) and "Predator 2" (1990) about an elite group of warriors hunted by a merciless alien race |
2010 | Co-starred with Sarah Polley in the sci-fi thriller "Splice" |
2009 | Voiced the character of Rickity the Field Mouse in the animated feature "Fantastic Mr. Fox" |
2009 | Co-starred with Mark Ruffalo, as brothers who make a living off of swindling millionaires, in the comedy "The Brothers Bloom" |
2008 | Portrayed record-company executive Leonard Chess in the musical biopic "Cadillac Records" |
2007 | Co-starred with Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson in director Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" |
2006 | Cast as private detective Louis Simo in "Hollywoodland," who investigates the death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck) |
2005 | Played Jack Driscoll, opposite Jack Black and Naomi Watts, in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong" |
2005 | Portrays an institutionalized Gulf War veteran opposite Keira Knightley in "The Jacket" |
2004 | Co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix and William Hurt in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" |
2003 | Played the urban hipster con man, Brody in "Love The Hard Way" |
2002 | Portrayed Wladyslaw Szpilman, the brilliant pianist in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist"; received leading role nominations for Golden Globe, BAFTA and a SAG Awards |
2000 | Featured in the Yugoslavia-set war film "Harrison's Flowers" |
2000 | Starred in Kenneth Loach's gripping labor drama "Bread and Roses"; screened at Cannes |
1999 | Appeared in Barry Levinson's "Liberty Heights" |
1999 | Co-starred in Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" |
1998 | Played Corporal Fife in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (in the final cut, the part had been reduced to little more than a cameo) |
1998 | Starred in Bross' second feature "Restaurant"; released theatrically in 2000 |
1997 | Co-starred in the drama "Six Ways to Sunday" (released 1999) |
1996 | Appeared as a gay Beat poet, loosely based on Alan Ginsburg in the film "The Last Time I Committed Suicide" |
1995 | Garnered rave notices for his star-making role as a gambler in Eric Bross' "Nothing to Lose" (released theatrically in 1998) |
1994 | Featured in the William Friedkin-directed "Jailbreakers" segment of Showtime's "Rebel Highway" |
1993 | Won critical praise as a teenage con artist in "King of the Hill" |
1989 | Feature film debut in the Francis Ford Coppola-helmed "Life Without Zoe" segment of the omnibus feature "New York Stories" |
1988 | Cast as Mary Tyler Moore's stepson in the short-lived CBS sitcom "Annie McGuire" |
1988 | TV acting debut in the PBS production "Home at Last" |
| Professional acting debut in the Off-Broadway play "Family Pride in the '50s" |
| Appeared in photographs taken by his mother, famed photographer Sylvia Plachy |
| At age six, made amateur acting debut as a dwarf in a summer camp production of "Snow White" |
| Raised in the New York City neighborhood of Woodhaven, Queens |
