- 2009: Co-starred with Mark Ruffalo, as brothers who make a living off of swindling millionaires, in the comedy "The Brothers Bloom"
- 2008: Portrayed record-company executive Leonard Chess in the musical biopic "Cadillac Records"
- 2007: Co-starred with Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson in director Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited"
- 2006: Cast as private detective Louis Simo in "Hollywoodland," who investigates the death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck)
- 2005: Played Jack Driscoll, opposite Jack Black and Naomi Watts, in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong"
- 2005: Portrays an institutionalized Gulf War veteran opposite Keira Knightley in "The Jacket"
- 2004: Co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix and William Hurt in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"
- 2003: Played the urban hipster con man, Brody in "Love The Hard Way"
- 2002: Portrayed Wladyslaw Szpilman, the brilliant pianist in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist"; received leading role nominations for Golden Globe, BAFTA and a SAG Awards
- 2000: Starred in Kenneth Loach's gripping labor drama "Bread and Roses"; screened at Cannes
- 2000: Featured in the Yugoslavia-set war film "Harrison's Flowers"
- 1999: Co-starred in Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam"
- 1999: Appeared in Barry Levinson's "Liberty Heights"
- 1998: Played Corporal Fife in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (in the final cut, the part had been reduced to little more than a cameo)
- 1998: Starred in Bross' second feature "Restaurant"; released theatrically in 2000
- 1997: Co-starred in the drama "Six Ways to Sunday" (released 1999)
- 1996: Appeared as a gay Beat poet, loosely based on Alan Ginsburg in the film "The Last Time I Committed Suicide"
- 1995: Garnered rave notices for his star-making role as a gambler in Eric Bross' "Nothing to Lose" (released theatrically in 1998)
- 1994: Featured in the William Friedkin-directed "Jailbreakers" segment of Showtime's "Rebel Highway"
- 1993: Won critical praise as a teenage con artist in "King of the Hill"
- 1989: Feature film debut in the Francis Ford Coppola-helmed "Life Without Zoe" segment of the omnibus feature "New York Stories"
- 1988: TV acting debut in the PBS production "Home at Last"
- 1988: Cast as Mary Tyler Moore's stepson in the short-lived CBS sitcom "Annie McGuire"
- Appeared in photographs taken by his mother, famed photographer Sylvia Plachy
- At age six, made amateur acting debut as a dwarf in a summer camp production of "Snow White"
- Professional acting debut in the Off-Broadway play "Family Pride in the '50s"
- Raised in the New York City neighborhood of Woodhaven, Queens




