Wednesday night’s episode o🍎f “American Horror Story” introduced us to a new villa๊in — Dandy Mott, the spoiled-brat son of Palm Beach society matron Gloria Mott (Frances Conroy). Dandy wanted to join the Jupiter, Fla., freak show run by Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange). When he could not, he kidnapped unsuspecting children and kept them in a hideous cage for his own freak show. After his playmate, Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch), was taken to hell by Edward Mordrake (Wes Bentley), Dandy picked up the late clown’s hideous mouth masks and inherited his murderous personality — slitting the throat of his mother’s maid, Dora (Patti LaBelle).
With his choirboy goo♌d looks and devious mien, Finn Wittrock, 30, is perfectly cast as Dandy. The role is quite a change of pace for him, and theꦍ producers of “AHS” are obviously confident that he can devour all the scenery Jessica Lange hasn’t dined on first.
Here are some of his early roles.
‘All My Children’
Wittrock origina🍒ted the role of Damon Miller, the playboy son of Tad Martin and his ex-wife Hillary Wilson, and played the role for two years, from 2009 to 2011. He followed the series when production moved from New York to LA.
‘Masters of Sex’
In the first season of the Showtime drama, Wittrock played a young hustler named Dale, whose secret trysts with Barton Scully (Beau Bridges) 🎀exposed the🔜 sham of Scully’s marriage to Margaret (Allison Janney).
‘Noah’
As the young Tubal-cain, who slays Noah’s (Russell Crowe) father, Lamech, Wittrock played his first biblical role♍.
‘The Normal Heart’
Wittrock was cast in the adaptation of the Lar🐷ry Kramer play as Albert, a boyfriend of Bruce Niles (Taylor Kitsch). Both characters died of AIDS, but Albert’s death, en route to see his mother in Phoenix, is truly heartbreaking.
‘Unbroken’
Wittrock co-stars ꦿwith Jackཧ O’Connell and Garret Hedlund in the Angelina Jolie-directed movie about World War II hero Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who survived two and a half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. He plays Francis “Mac” McNamara, one of the men who is on the flight with Zamperini when it crashes in the Pacific.