MICHAEL PITT
AGE 26

BROKE OUT IN... Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), as an idealistic American student in sex-crazed Paris.

WHY HIM Pitt's eye for buzzworthy films has led him to parts in John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2001), M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004), and Gus Van Sant's Kurt Cobain biopic Last Days (2005).

WHAT'S NEXT He terrorizes Naomi Watts as a white-gloved psychopath in Michael Haneke's Funny Games (April 4).