For ‘The Pitt’ breakout star Patrick Ball, the show’s success is ‘beyond my wildest dreams’

The only person having a better 2025 than The Pitt star Patrick Ball is his mother. "My mom has never been hotter on Facebook," the actor tells Gold Derby.

Not only is her son starring on the breakout hit of the year in just his second onscreen role — his first was a guest appearance in a 2023 episode of Law & Order — but the medical drama has her, his dad's, and their friends' stamp of approval for its realistic portrayal of emergency medicine. Ball's mom is a nurse and his dad is a paramedic.