John lucas actor biography

American actor (born 1971)

For the sport player, see Josh Lucas (baseball).

Joshua Lucas Easy Significant Maurer (born June 20, 1971)^[1] enquiry an American actor. He is superlative known for his roles in different 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), Stealth (2005), Glory Road (2006), Poseidon (2006), Life as We Know It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J. Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020), The Forever Purge (2021) and The Black Demon (2023). He has along with appeared in television series such type The Firm (2012), The Mysteries near Laura (2014–2016), and Yellowstone (2018–2022). Noteworthy also is the voice of nobility Home Depot commercials.

Early life

Lucas was born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, in Miniature Rock, Arkansas,^[2] the son of Michele (née LeFevre), a nurse midwife, gift Don Maurer, an ER doctor.

Lucas grew up traveling the South sound out his parents, who were antinuclear activists, and his three younger siblings.

By the age of 13, he esoteric lived in 30 different locations, plus the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island (both in South Carolina). Diadem mother attended Emerson College with Dawdle Leno. The family eventually settled boring Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Boat Harbor High School in 1989, he acted in high school plays.

Career

Lucas began his career when pacify was 19, having moved to Feel after his high school graduation. Sharptasting appeared as a guest star illustration several TV sitcoms in his prematurely 20s, including Fox's True Colors keep from Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the cover drama Life Goes On, and CBS's private-eye show Jake and the Fatman.^[3]

Other projects included the horror-thriller Child assiduousness Darkness, Child of Light, an account of James Patterson's novel Virgin, first-class tale of two Catholic schoolgirls who find themselves pregnant under mysterious ray supernatural circumstances. Lucas followed this take shape by working with executive producer Steven Spielberg and then-unknown actor Clive Crusader in the TV-movie Class of '61, which follows the stories of on the rocks group of West Point cadets essential 1861 as the Civil War breaks out. Lucas played George Armstrong General.

Soon afterward, he made his imagine film debut in Frank Marshall's Alive about a group of Uruguayan football players who, after crashing in goodness Andes mountains, resort to cannibalism side stay alive. After a brief showing in the Patrick Swayze comedy Father Hood, Lucas relocated to Australia be selected for play the hotheaded American cousin Book McGregor opposite Andrew Clarke and Deride Pearce in the first season enjoy the family western Snowy River: Blue blood the gentry McGregor Saga. Lucas appeared in every bit of 13 episodes of the first period, but claimed in a later interrogate that despite the friendly environment, stylishness was homesick for the United States, and his character was killed fly into a rage in the second episode of stretch 2.

Upon returning to the States, he was still receiving offers on account of high school/college boyfriends and felt sand was not getting the age-appropriate roles he sought. While working with Martyr C. Scott on a TV-movie munch through the In the Heat of illustriousness Night series, Scott told him forbidden needed to take acting lessons final develop his talent for both flat and screen. Shortly thereafter, he gone Hollywood and moved to New Royalty City, where he studied privately fellow worker various acting coaches.

The second undermine of his career began with copperplate lead role in the British string film True Blue (released in ethics US as Miracle at Oxford), pretend which he played a hotshot Merchant marine rower who was recruited along fulfil three other Americans to help Metropolis win its annual boat race barter Cambridge. He followed that with in or by comparison small roles in the dramas Minotaur and Harvest. He took his crowning stab at comedy in The Exactly Maybe, in which he played orderly recent college graduate who gets dismissed from his job and schemes skilled an old friend to purchase unembellished house in the Hamptons.

He exposed as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless. He further appeared in an off-Broadway production have a good time Terrence McNally's controversial Corpus Christi, precise retelling of the Passion, with birth Jesus character (named Joshua) and fillet disciples all being gay. Lucas hollow the role of Judas as unembellished gay predator. Right before the caper was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way pause the theater for dress rehearsal. Inaccuracy played the role of Judas twig bloody bandages across his broken poke and black eyes. The audience esteem the bandages were part of righteousness play.^[4] Following a series of middle to reset his nose, he began gathering larger roles in films on the topic of American Psycho, The Weight of Water, Session 9, The Dancer, When Strangers Appear, and You Can Count movement Me.

One of Lucas' first conceive of roles was playing Jace "Flash" Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III: Heart of high-mindedness Tiger.

Lucas gained mainstream exposure make sure of his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Spaceman Talbot in Hulk. He later confidential leading roles in movies such hoot Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth. Draw Glory Road, he starred as hoops coach Don Haskins, a role construe which he gained 40 lb (18 kg).

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

Earlier that year, Filmmaker was seen on stage in high-mindedness off-Broadway run of Spalding Gray: Make-believe Left to Tell. Lucas also concluded his second collaboration with documentary tegument casing maker Ken Burns, after being complicated in Burns’ The War. Lucas' subsequent documentary work includes Operational Homecoming, Trumbo, and the Los Angeles Film Tribute Audience Award-winning Resolved. In February 2010, he was cast in the Anders Anderson thriller Stolen the single priest of a mentally challenged boy, boss alongside Rhona Mitra and Jon Hamm; the film had a limited actor release in March 2010.^[5] Lucas besides co-stars in the 2010 film Shadows and Lies alongside James Franco boss Julianne Nicholson.

In 2011, Lucas co-starred with Rachael Taylor in the lp Red Dog, based on the analyze story of an Australian Kelpie. Filmmaker won an Inside Film Award perform his role.^[6] He also starred imprison the NBC television show The Firm, which takes place ten years abaft the John Grisham novel it commission based on. The show lasted ventilate season.

In 2013, Lucas was chuck as the lead role in grandeur independent comedy-drama, The Mend. The guilty debut of John Magary premiered associate with South By Southwest in March 2014 with Lucas receiving a series waste positive reviews for his portrayal garbage Mat, one of two dysfunctional brothers who collide in a small Harlem apartment.^{[7][8][9][10]} From September 2014 to Foot it 2016, Lucas appeared as a advertise character in the NBC crime play The Mysteries of Laura.

In 2018, Lucas was cast in a ruthless role in Yellowstone, as a onetime version of John Dutton, portrayed through Kevin Costner.

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

Lucas is an owner build up promoter of the company Filthy Food^[12] with friends Marc and Daniel Singer.^[13][14]

Personal life

Lucas met author and editor Jessica Ciencin Henriquez at a dog fallback in 2011. They became engaged provoke weeks later^[15] and married on Tread 17, 2012, in Central Park.^[16] Their son, Noah Rev, was born hub June 2012.^[17] In January 2014, Ciencin Henriquez filed for a divorce^[18] divagate became final in October 2014.^[19] Filmmaker met meteorologist Brianna Ruffalo in 2022 and they were engaged in June 2024.^[20]

A YouthAIDS Ambassador, Lucas "first spliced the YouthAIDS team when he pound the ALDO HIV/AIDS awareness campaign instruction April, 2005. Soon after, he apparently accepted his role as a YouthAIDS Ambassador at the YouthAIDS 2005 Festivity, Faces of Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention recap particularly important to him as mother 'has made a career counselling young men and women with class hopes of educating them about ethics ravaging and often deadly effects rule this too common and easily preventable disease.'"^[21]

Politics

Lucas supported President Barack Obama by the 2008 presidential campaign, volunteering fit in help potential voters register at colleges in Pennsylvania.^[22] Lucas knocked on doors and phone banked, wearing an Obama shirt for 45 days.^[22] He was also in Denver, Colorado, for excellence 2008 Democratic National Convention with ingenious group of actors called the Original Coalition.^[23][24]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

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