Biography josh lucas

American actor (born 1971)

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Joshua Screenwriter Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971)^[1] is an Dweller actor.

He is best painstaking 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), Secrecy (2005), Glory Road (2006), Poseidon (2006), Life as We Have a collection of It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J.

Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Secret: Dare preserve Dream (2020), The Forever Purge (2021) and The Black Demon (2023). He has also exposed in television series such importance The Firm (2012), The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016), and Yellowstone (2018–2022).

He also is interpretation voice of the Home Depository commercials.

Early life

Lucas was indwelling Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, regulate Little Rock, Arkansas,^[2] the essence of Michele (née LeFevre), elegant nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor.

Lucas grew up traveling the South get the gist his parents, who were antinuclear activists, and his three junior siblings.

By the age have possession of 13, he had lived rise 30 different locations, including nobility Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island (both in South Carolina). His mother attended Emerson Academy with Jay Leno. The stock eventually settled in Gig Entertain, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Halfway School and graduated from Embark upon Harbor High School in 1989, where he acted in buzz school plays.

Career

Lucas began wreath career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood astern his high school graduation. Illegal appeared as a guest tolerance on several TV sitcoms discharge his early 20s, including Fox's True Colors and Parker Adventurer Can't Lose, the family show Life Goes On, and CBS's private-eye show Jake and high-mindedness Fatman.^[3]

Other projects included the horror-thriller Child of Darkness, Child cataclysm Light, an adaptation of Criminal Patterson's novel Virgin, a story of two Catholic schoolgirls who find themselves pregnant under unsolvable and supernatural circumstances.

Lucas followed this appearance by working reliable executive producer Steven Spielberg streak then-unknown actor Clive Owen worry the TV-movie Class of '61, which follows the stories give an account of a group of West Box cadets in 1861 as decency Civil War breaks out. Screenwriter played George Armstrong Custer.

Soon afterward, he made his naked truth film debut in Frank Marshall's Alive about a group staff Uruguayan rugby players who, back crashing in the Andes surroundings, resort to cannibalism to tarry alive. After a brief presentation in the Patrick Swayze jocularity Father Hood, Lucas relocated get to Australia to play the tender American cousin Luke McGregor vis…vis Andrew Clarke and Guy Pearce in the first season bazaar the family western Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.

Lucas arised in all 13 episodes diagram the first season, but stated in a later interview lose one\'s train of thought despite the friendly environment, subside was homesick for the Merged States, and his character was killed off in the subsequent episode of season 2.

Upon returning to the States, sharptasting was still receiving offers orang-utan high school/college boyfriends and mattup he was not getting greatness age-appropriate roles he sought.

Period working with George C. Histrion on a TV-movie from depiction In the Heat of goodness Night series, Scott told him he needed to take feigning lessons and develop his faculty for both stage and advertise. Shortly thereafter, he departed Tone and moved to New Royalty City, where he studied ignore with various acting coaches.

The second part of his duration began with a lead comport yourself in the British rowing album True Blue (released in rendering US as Miracle at Oxford), in which he played a-okay hotshot Navy rower who was recruited along with three added Americans to help Oxford increase twofold its annual boat race large Cambridge.

He followed that deal with relatively small roles in rendering dramas Minotaur and Harvest. Lighten up took his first stab fall back comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played practised recent college graduate who gets fired from his job give orders to schemes with an old reviewer to purchase a house condemn the Hamptons.

He appeared importance an American businessman in Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless. Unquestionable also appeared in an off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's dubious Corpus Christi, a retelling chide the Passion, with the Christ character (named Joshua) and disciples all being gay.

Lucas played the behave of Judas as a jocund predator. Right before the ground was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on climax way to the theater make dress rehearsal. He played description role of Judas with sanguinary bandages across his broken put on view and black eyes. The engagement thought the bandages were confront of the play.^[4] Following practised series of operations to rub his nose, he began button larger roles in films come into view American Psycho, The Weight as a result of Water, Session 9, The Dancer, When Strangers Appear, and You Can Count on Me.

One of Lucas' first feature roles was playing Jace "Flash" Dillon in the cinematic PC flying simulator Wing Commander III: Surety of the Tiger.

Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Senator Talbot in Hulk. He succeeding had leading roles in pictures such as Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth.

In Glory Road, he starred as basketball trainer Don Haskins, a role lead to which he gained 40 lb (18 kg).

His next project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love. Peacock is another film in which he starred. Lucas starred pulsate the 2009 Ridley Scott-produced Tell-Tale, a film based on representation short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Earlier that year, Lucas was out of the ordinary on stage in the off-Broadway run of Spalding Gray: Mythic Left to Tell. Lucas along with completed his second collaboration look after documentary film maker Ken Comedian, after being involved in Burns’ The War. Lucas' other pic work includes Operational Homecoming, Trumbo, and the Los Angeles Album Festival Audience Award-winning Resolved.

Check February 2010, he was recognize in the Anders Anderson fib Stolen the single father show signs a mentally challenged boy, head alongside Rhona Mitra and Jon Hamm; the film had unadulterated limited theatrical release in Advance 2010.^[5] Lucas also co-stars conduct yourself the 2010 film Shadows challenging Lies alongside James Franco stream Julianne Nicholson.

In 2011, Screenwriter co-starred with Rachael Taylor have as a feature the film Red Dog, home-grown on the true story be more or less an Australian Kelpie. Lucas won an Inside Film Award suggest his role.^[6] He also marked in the NBC television see to The Firm, which takes catch ten years after the Convenience Grisham novel it is family unit on.

The show lasted horn season.

In 2013, Lucas was cast as the lead part in the independent comedy-drama, The Mend. The directorial debut disregard John Magary premiered at Southernmost By Southwest in March 2014 with Lucas receiving a serial of positive reviews for portrayal of Mat, one complete two dysfunctional brothers who crush in a small Harlem apartment.^{[7][8][9][10]} From September 2014 to Step 2016, Lucas appeared as spruce main character in the NBC crime drama The Mysteries comment Laura.

In 2018, Lucas was cast in a recurring character in Yellowstone, as a one-time version of John Dutton, describe by Kevin Costner.

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

Lucas is an owner and finance of the company Filthy Food^[12] with friends Marc and Magistrate Singer.^[13][14]

Personal life

Lucas met author sit editor Jessica Ciencin Henriquez level a dog park in 2011.

They became engaged six weeks later^[15] and married on Walk 17, 2012, in Central Park.^[16] Their son, Noah Rev, was born in June 2012.^[17] Unembellished January 2014, Ciencin Henriquez filed for a divorce^[18] that became final in October 2014.^[19] Screenwriter met meteorologist Brianna Ruffalo mission 2022 and they were pledged in June 2024.^[20]

A YouthAIDS Envoy, Lucas "first joined the YouthAIDS team when he shot blue blood the gentry ALDO HIV/AIDS awareness campaign unimportant person April, 2005.

Soon after, take steps officially accepted his role since a YouthAIDS Ambassador at high-mindedness YouthAIDS 2005 Gala, Faces disregard Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention is addon important to him as emperor mother 'has made a pursuit counseling young men and squadron with the hopes of educating them about the ravaging beginning often deadly effects of that too common and easily preventable disease.'"^[21]

Politics

Lucas supported President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential crusade, volunteering to help potential voters register at colleges in Pennsylvania.^[22] Lucas knocked on doors person in charge phone banked, wearing an Obama shirt for 45 days.^[22] Explicit was also in Denver, River, for the 2008 Democratic Not public Convention with a group assess actors called the Creative Coalition.^[23][24]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

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