Leo Fitzpatrick

From The Wire

Leo Fitzpatrick (born August 10, 1978 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States) is an American actor. He has a recurring role as Johnny Weeks in the first 3 seasons of The Wire.

Fitxpatrick has appeared in the films as Kids, Storytelling, Bully and City of Ghosts. He also appeared in the HBO series Carnivàle.

A native of West Orange, New Jersey, Fitzpatrick was a regular skateboarder in Manhattan by the age of 14, where he hung around with other skaters. In the early 90s, Larry Clark began hanging around this scene, taking pictures, asking questions and just getting to know the kids, sometimes skating himself. He asked Fitzpatrick if he would like to audition for a movie he was making and Fitzpatrick was cast in Kids as Telly, a vagrant skateboarding teen whose life of violence, crime and drugs is directed by one goal, the desire to have sex with very young virgins.