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Patrick Fugit was born on October 27, 1982, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began acting in a summer theatre program through the University of Utah when he was 11 years old. The young actor made his television debut on the Fox TV movie "Legion of Fire Killer Ants" in 1998, but he is most known for his central role as William Miller, a young rock reporter, in the Cameron Crowe film "Almost Famous." Patrick also had small parts on TV's "ER" and "Touched By An Angel" and played the role of Frisbee in the independent film "Spun." He lives in Salt Lake City with his parents and two siblings and is in a band named Mushman.
Patrick Fugit landed squarely on top of the Hollywood heap when, for the actor's big-screen debut, writer/director Cameron Crowe tapped him to play the lead, William Miller (Crowe's onscreen teenage alter-ego), in the smash film à clef Almost Famous (2000). The high profile of the role and the movie's success ensured continued stardom for the then-17-year-old, who had forged a path to stardom by discovering a rudimentary love of acting in seventh grade and asking his mother to help him sign with an agent. After the Crowe assignment, Fugit essayed a series of roles over the next several years that typically found him playing a hunky boyfriend -- as in White Oleander (2002) and the teen-oriented religious farce Saved! (2003). Unfortunately -- Famous and Saved aside -- Fugit's subsequent role choice often left something to be desired, witness his involvement in the dumb-dumb monster movie Dead Birds (2004) and the barely released comedy Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006). In 2007, Fugit signed to play opposite screen heavy Dennis Quaid in the psychological thriller Horsemen (2008). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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