2011 | Co-starred with Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin in the crime drama "Thin Ice" |
2011 | Portrayed U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner in the HBO film "Too Big to Fail" |
2011 | Acted in the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," this time playing the role of Septimus Hodge; earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play |
2010 | Co-starred with Julia Roberts in "Eat Pray Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir; Roberts portrayed the author who, after a painful divorce, goes on a life-changing journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia |
2010 | Cast in the production of Adam Rapp's "The Metal Children" at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre |
2009 | Played the iconic superhero Doctor Manhattan in the film adaptation of "Watchmen" |
2007 | Co-starred in Justin Theroux's directorial debut "Dedication" |
2006 | Portrayed literary critic Vissarion Belinsky in the first two parts of Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center |
2006 | Played British spy Arch Cummings in Robert De Niro's long-anticipated spy film "The Good Shepherd" |
2006 | Appeared opposite Tom Cruise in the J.J. Abrams-directed "Mission: Impossible III" |
2005 | Co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the Broadway production of "The Pillowman"; earned a Tony nomination |
2004 | Cast opposite Claire Danes in "Stage Beauty," based on the play by Jeffrey Hatcher |
2003 | Portrayed Albert Finney's son in Tim Burton's "Big Fish" |
2002 | Headlined a Broadway revival of the award-winning play "The Elephant Man"; earned a Tony nomination |
2001 | Starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Gillian Armstrong's "Charlotte Gray" |
2001 | Acted opposite Julianne Moore in "World Traveler"; screened at Toronto Film Festival |
2001 | Played the lead role in the New York Shakespeare Festival staging of "Measure for Measure" in Central Park |
2000 | Played Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of the fictional band Stillwater in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" |
2000 | Starred as Kennedy-esque political figure in Keith Gordon's "Waking the Dead" |
1999 | Cast as a drug addicted drifter in the festival-screened "Jesus' Son" |
| Turned down the role of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho" |
1998 | Played the lead role opposite Frances McDormand in the off-Broadway staging of "Oedipus Rex" |
1998 | Played a stoned Irish gangster in Ted Demme's "Monument Ave." |
1998 | Co-starred with Woody Harrelson, as post-war ranchers in the American Southwest, in Stephen Frears' "The Hi-Lo Country" |
1998 | First Hollywood lead, the role of runner Steve Prefontaine in Robert Towne's "Without Limits" |
1997 | Portrayed Solyoni in the Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" |
1997 | Breakthrough role as the charming and sexy Jacey Holt in "Inventing the Abbotts" |
1996 | Co-starred with Mary-Louise Parker in Broadway revival of William Inge's "Bus Stop" |
1996 | Co-starred in Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" |
1996 | Played a small role in Woody Allen's musical "Everyone Says I Love You" |
1995 | Broadway debut as the Byronic tutor of a female mathematics genius in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" |
1994 | Filmed first feature role in "Grind" (released 1997) |
| Raised in south Florida and Texas |
