Finn Wittrock
Biography
Finn Wittrock is an American actor who grew up at the Shakespeare & Company theater in his native Lenox, Massachusetts, where his father worked. He studied theater at Juilliard and made his film debut in Halloweentown High (2004), then spent 2009 to 2011 as a regular on the soap opera All My Children. In 2012 he made his Broadway debut as Happy Loman in a revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols, winning a Theatre World Award. He became known for his collaborations with producer Ryan Murphy, starting with The Normal Heart (2014), and earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for playing Dandy Mott on American Horror Story: Freak Show. His other films include Noah (2014), Unbroken (2014), La La Land (2016), Landline (2017) and Judy (2019), and he drew a second Emmy nomination for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
41years old
Turns 42 on October 28in 16 days
- Born Lenox
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Peter Finn Wittrock
Movie Career
- Films
- 19
- Career span
- 20 years2004 to 2024
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A role that slipped away
In July 2023, Gunn said he had picked Nathan Fillion, a collaborator of his, to play Guy Gardner, which replaced Wittrock.
Early training
Wittrock was accepted into Juilliard after high school but turned it down to look for work in Los Angeles, then auditioned again the next year and was accepted.
Big break
Mike Nichols saw Wittrock in the Off-Broadway play The Illusion and told him to audition for Scott Rudin, leading to his Broadway debut as Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman.
A first
Wittrock earned the title of U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2003, as a participant in the Presidential Scholars program.
Finn Wittrock movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Finn Wittrock's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.1 billion
8 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 8 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 2 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 4US gross only
- 4Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$509M46.2% of the total
- 2$363M32.9% of the total
- 3$163M14.8% of the total
- 4$39M3.5% of the total
- 5$21M1.9% of the total
- 6$4.5M0.4% of the total
- 7$3.0M0.3% of the total
- 8$88K0.0% of the total
Awards
Two awards and honors.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| 2012 | Theatre World Award | Won | |
| Clarence Derwent Awards | Won | ||
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.