Glenn Fitzgerald
Glenn Fitzgerald (born December 21,1971) is a highly regarded actor of stage, film, and television.
Film roles include: Lonnie, the son of Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin in David O. Russell’s cult classic Flirting with Disaster; Neil, the boy at the “key party” that goes home with Sigourney Weaver in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm; the Hasidic scholar husband of Renee Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies; the uptight assistant to Sean Connery in Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester; and the earnest antique dealer in love with Bruce Willis’ wife in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.
He has also played diverse roles in several indies including: a terminally ill pacifist forced to fight for his life in Series 7: The Contenders; a sociopathic skinhead opposite Ryan Gosling in The Believer ; the sensitive, kind brother in Tully ; and the reckless, drug-addled tank commander opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Buffalo Soldiers.
Between film jobs Glenn has built a respected stage career, originating roles in Jon Robin Baitz’s Mizlansky/Zilinsky, opposite Nathan Lane and directed by Joe Mantello; Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor); Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses with Tracy Letts and Parker Posey, directed by Sam Gold; Melissa James Gibson's THIS at Playwrights Horizons with Julianne Nicholson; and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord directed by David Hyde Pierce with Holland Taylor.