Lucas Hedges was born on December 12,1996 and is an American actor.
23 Facts About Lucas Hedges
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Lucas Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom.
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Lucas Hedges had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Lucas Hedges then starred as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of Yen and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017.
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In 2018, Lucas Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama.
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Lucas Hedges made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year.
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Lucas Hedges was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the second of two boys born to poet and actress Susan Bruce and screenwriter and director Peter Lucas Hedges.
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Lucas Hedges's paternal grandfather, the Rev Robert Boyden Hedges, was an Episcopal minister.
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Lucas Hedges's maternal grandfather was a former vice president in New York at HBO, and his maternal grandmother, Narcissa Titman, is a former theatre director and lecturer.
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Lucas Hedges has an older brother, Simon, who works in private equity in New York.
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Lucas Hedges grew up in Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill, frequently visiting his father's film sets.
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Lucas Hedges is a graduate of the Cherubs Theatre Program at Northwestern University's National High School Institute.
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Lucas Hedges went on to play small roles in the comedy-drama Arthur Newman, Jason Reitman's romance Labor Day, and Terry Gilliam's science fiction film The Zero Theorem.
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In 2014, Lucas Hedges had a minor role in Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and played the son of Jeremy Renner's character in Michael Cuesta's drama Kill the Messenger, which was based on CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking.
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Lucas Hedges next joined the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's independent drama Manchester by the Sea.
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Lucas Hedges was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play and won the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Debut Performance.
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Lucas Hedges played the supporting role of a teenager who violently bullies his younger brother in Mid90s, which marked the directorial debut of Jonah Hill.
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Also in 2018, Lucas Hedges made his first appearance on Broadway in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play The Waverly Gallery, alongside Elaine May, at the John Golden Theatre.
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Lucas Hedges played the role of a teenager coping with his grandmother's Alzheimer's disease.
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In 2020, Lucas Hedges appeared in the miniseries Home Movie: The Princess Bride for Quibi to raise money for World Central Kitchen.
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Lucas Hedges took a small break from acting to focus on writing, and returned to the stage in a 2023 West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain at @sohoplace, in which he starred as Ennis Del Mar opposite Mike Faist's Jack Twist.
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At the 89th Academy Awards, Lucas Hedges was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Manchester by the Sea.
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In 2017, Lucas Hedges earned a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.