Early Career
He was born in Pittsburgh. Bartok is his mother's maiden name. His father's name is Wilchusky. Bartok moved with his family to Manhattan when he was nine. By age 12 he was taking acting lessons at the HB Studio. He was 13 when he made his professional acting debut, appearing in a WonderWorks episode entitled Almost Partners (PBS, 1987).
In the 1990s, his TV appearances included an ABC unsold pilot entitled Coconut Downs, a recurring role on the Judith Ivey sitcom Down Home (NBC, 1991), an episode of NBC's Law & Order, and the pilot episode of its spin-off Criminal Intent. More recently, Bartok played a naive prisoner in the 1996 TNT miniseries Andersonville.
Bartok has also appeared on stage playing a victim of abuse in Dalton's Back off-Broadway at Circle Repertory Company when he was 16 years old.
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