Biography
Date of Birth
27 December 1982, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Birth Name
Patrick Raymond Fugit
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Mini Biography
Patrick Fugit was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jan Clark-Fugit, a dance teacher, and Bruce Fugit, an electrical engineer. He has two siblings. He began acting in a summer Theater program through the University of Utah at eleven. He continued on through high school and regional productions. He enjoys biking and skating. In 2002, he was featured in Seventeen magazine, along with Alison Lohman, his co-star from White Oleander (2002).
Trivia
Grew three inches while filming Almost Famous (2000).
His voice also broke while filming Almost Famous (2000).
His mother was a dance teacher in Salt Lake City. She owned a dance school called The Ballet School.
He is part Irish.
Friends with Olivia Wilde and Tao Ruspoli.
His last name means "he flees" in Latin.
Formed Salt Lake City band "Mushman" with best friend David Fetzer, by "accident". The band can best be described as a blend of folk and rock. Patrick plays the guitar and sometimes sings.
Rides motorcycles with his dad. They own five in total.
Briefly lived in Wilmot, New Hampshire as a child.
Trademarks:
Frequently works with Cameron Crowe
Quotes
There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
I'm not a very fast-paced person.
