Finn Wittrock
Finn Wittrock
Peter "Finn" Wittrock, Jr.is an American actor and screenwriter. He began his career in guest roles on several television shows, before making his feature film debut in Twelve. After studying theater at The Juilliard School, he was a regular in the soap opera All My Children from 2009 to 2011, while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011, he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play The Illusion and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoap Opera Actor
Date of Birth28 October 1984
CityLenox, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.
The best villains are the nicest guys in person.
As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.
You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.
What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.