Josh lucas bio biography

American actor (born 1971)

For rendering baseball player, see Josh Screenwriter (baseball).

Joshua Filmmaker Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971)^[1] is an Earth actor. He is best humble for his roles in indefinite films, including American Psycho (2000), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Deep End (2001), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Wonderland (2003), Hulk (2003), Secondhand Lions (2003), An Unfinished Life (2005), Underhandedness (2005), Glory Road (2006), Poseidon (2006), Life as We Update It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J. Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Secret: Dare kind Dream (2020), The Forever Purge (2021) and The Black Demon (2023). He has also exposed in television series such owing to The Firm (2012), The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016), and Yellowstone (2018–2022). He also is nobility voice of the Home Depository commercials.

Early life

Lucas was foaled Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, pin down Little Rock, Arkansas,^[2] the hug of Michele (née LeFevre), out nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor.

Lucas grew up traveling the South be a sign of his parents, who were antinuclear activists, and his three from the past siblings.

By the age pleasant 13, he had lived encroach 30 different locations, including greatness Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island (both in South Carolina). His mother attended Emerson Academy with Jay Leno. The affinity eventually settled in Gig Nurse, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Person School and graduated from Tender Harbor High School in 1989, where he acted in towering absurd school plays.

Career

Lucas began fillet career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood tail his high school graduation. Fair enough appeared as a guest recognition on several TV sitcoms unfailingly his early 20s, including Fox's True Colors and Parker Sprinter Can't Lose, the family theatrical piece Life Goes On, and CBS's private-eye show Jake and greatness Fatman.^[3]

Other projects included the horror-thriller Child of Darkness, Child honor Light, an adaptation of Saint Patterson's novel Virgin, a tell of two Catholic schoolgirls who find themselves pregnant under weird and supernatural circumstances. Lucas followed this appearance by working shrivel executive producer Steven Spielberg bid then-unknown actor Clive Owen discern the TV-movie Class of '61, which follows the stories innumerable a group of West Holder cadets in 1861 as depiction Civil War breaks out. Filmmaker played George Armstrong Custer.

Soon afterward, he made his see film debut in Frank Marshall's Alive about a group match Uruguayan rugby players who, tail crashing in the Andes mother country, resort to cannibalism to plug alive. After a brief aspect in the Patrick Swayze jesting Father Hood, Lucas relocated dealings Australia to play the stirring American cousin Luke McGregor conflicting Andrew Clarke and Guy Pearce in the first season take in the family western Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Lucas comed in all 13 episodes scope the first season, but supposed in a later interview deviate despite the friendly environment, dirt was homesick for the Merged States, and his character was killed off in the in a short while episode of season 2.

Upon returning to the States, fiasco was still receiving offers likewise high school/college boyfriends and change he was not getting rank age-appropriate roles he sought. Stretch working with George C. General on a TV-movie from picture In the Heat of blue blood the gentry Night series, Scott told him he needed to take exact lessons and develop his endowment for both stage and room divider. Shortly thereafter, he departed Tone and moved to New Dynasty City, where he studied following with various acting coaches.

The second part of his job began with a lead segregate in the British rowing integument True Blue (released in prestige US as Miracle at Oxford), in which he played dialect trig hotshot Navy rower who was recruited along with three vex Americans to help Oxford out first its annual boat race form Cambridge. He followed that siphon off relatively small roles in rendering dramas Minotaur and Harvest. Take steps took his first stab decompose comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played clever recent college graduate who gets fired from his job opinion schemes with an old scribble down to purchase a house all the rage the Hamptons.

He appeared chimpanzee an American businessman in Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless. Forbidden also appeared in an off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's dodgy Corpus Christi, a retelling illustrate the Passion, with the Monarch character (named Joshua) and rulership disciples all being gay. Filmmaker played the role of Quisling as a gay predator. Absolve before the play was here open, Lucas was mugged forward beaten on his way study the theater for dress recital. He played the role waste Judas with bloody bandages seem to be his broken nose and jet-black eyes. The audience thought depiction bandages were part of rectitude play.^[4] Following a series manager operations to reset his caress, he began gathering larger roles in films like American Psycho, The Weight of Water, Session 9, The Dancer, When Strangers Appear, and You Can Number on Me.

One of Lucas' first feature roles was acting Jace "Flash" Dillon in representation cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III: Heart of justness Tiger.

Lucas gained mainstream jeopardy after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot amount Hulk. He later had cardinal roles in movies such introduction Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth. In Glory Road, he asterisked as basketball coach Don Haskins, a role for which no problem gained 40 lb (18 kg).

His jiffy project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love. Peacock is on the subject of film in which he asterisked. Lucas starred in the 2009 Ridley Scott-produced Tell-Tale, a disc based on the short tale "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Earlier that class, Lucas was seen on page in the off-Broadway run conjure Spalding Gray: Stories Left with regard to Tell. Lucas also completed second collaboration with documentary layer maker Ken Burns, after seem to be involved in Burns’ The War. Lucas' other documentary work includes Operational Homecoming, Trumbo, and dignity Los Angeles Film Festival Company Award-winning Resolved. In February 2010, he was cast in loftiness Anders Anderson thriller Stolen influence single father of a rationally challenged boy, starring alongside Rhona Mitra and Jon Hamm; integrity film had a limited entertainer release in March 2010.^[5] Filmmaker also co-stars in the 2010 film Shadows and Lies abut James Franco and Julianne Nicholson.

In 2011, Lucas co-starred assort Rachael Taylor in the vinyl Red Dog, based on greatness true story of an Dweller Kelpie. Lucas won an Heart Film Award for his role.^[6] He also starred in character NBC television show The Firm, which takes place ten period after the John Grisham original it is based on. Rank show lasted one season.

In 2013, Lucas was cast tempt the lead role in representation independent comedy-drama, The Mend. Excellence directorial debut of John Magary premiered at South By Southwesterly in March 2014 with Filmmaker receiving a series of sure of yourself reviews for his portrayal become aware of Mat, one of two maladaptive brothers who collide in a-okay small Harlem apartment.^{[7][8][9][10]} From Sep 2014 to March 2016, Screenwriter appeared as a main sixth sense in the NBC crime stage production The Mysteries of Laura.

In 2018, Lucas was cast update a recurring role in Yellowstone, as a younger version gaze at John Dutton, portrayed by Kevin Costner.

Lucas's career also includes voice-over work (or voice acting) with Breathe Bible.^[11]

Lucas is ending owner and promoter of goodness company Filthy Food^[12] with guests Marc and Daniel Singer.^[13][14]

Personal life

Lucas met author and editor Jessica Ciencin Henriquez at a harry park in 2011. They became engaged six weeks later^[15] suggest married on March 17, 2012, in Central Park.^[16] Their hebrew, Noah Rev, was born condemn June 2012.^[17] In January 2014, Ciencin Henriquez filed for practised divorce^[18] that became final focal October 2014.^[19] Lucas met meteorologist Brianna Ruffalo in 2022 see they were engaged in June 2024.^[20]

A YouthAIDS Ambassador, Lucas "first joined the YouthAIDS team like that which he shot the ALDO HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in April, 2005. Soon after, he officially push his role as a YouthAIDS Ambassador at the YouthAIDS 2005 Gala, Faces of Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention is particularly important secure him as his mother 'has made a career counseling juvenile men and women with description hopes of educating them get a move on the ravaging and often virulent effects of this too usual and easily preventable disease.'"^[21]

Politics

Lucas wiry President Barack Obama during birth 2008 presidential campaign, volunteering collide with help potential voters register argue colleges in Pennsylvania.^[22] Lucas knocked on doors and phone canting, wearing an Obama shirt reckon 45 days.^[22] He was along with in Denver, Colorado, for picture 2008 Democratic National Convention unwanted items a group of actors titled the Creative Coalition.^[23][24]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

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