Noah Fleiss Movies
An actor all his life,
Noah Fleiss appeared on both stage and television before making his first film appearance at the age of nine. His debut starring role was in the family-oriented road movie
Josh and S.A.M., as the "Strategically Altered Mutant" little brother to child actor
Jacob Tierney. In 1995, he played the younger version of
D.B. Sweeney in the comedy
Roommates with
Peter Falk. The same year,
Fleiss earned his first Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award for the TV tearjerker
A Mother's Prayer. The next few years of his career consisted mostly of made-for-TV movies (more tearjerkers) and guest spots on such shows as
Touched by an Angel. In 1999, he starred in the Sundance award-winning drama
Joe the King, the directorial debut of actor
Frank Whaley. He appeared in the segment "Someone for Rose" in the episodic drama
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, which also played at the Sundance Film Festival.
Fleiss played the title character Joe, the troubled teenage child of unloving parents (
Val Kilmer and
Karen Young). He was also cast as a troubled teen in the comedy drama
Double Parked (2000), which was screened at Slamdance. In 2001, he returned to the realm of made-for-TV movies, appearing in the acclaimed Lifetime drama
The Truth About Jane and the HBO original movie
The Laramie Project.
Fleiss continued to make festival favorites, notably as the straight-laced football player in the "Non-fiction" section of
Todd Solondz's
Storytelling, which premiered at Cannes. His next few features were independent films with good soundtracks: the high school movie Bringing Rain (with music by
Vic Chesnutt) and the coming-of-age drama
Evergreen (with music by
John Stirratt). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
