1. Lucas Till had his breakthrough with romantic lead roles in the Disney film Hannah Montana: The Movie and music videos for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" and Miley Cyrus' "The Climb".
32 Facts About Lucas Till
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Lucas Till next played the eponymous role in the CBS action crime drama series MacGyver, a reboot of the 1980s series of the same name.
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Lucas Till subsequently garnered critical acclaim for his portrayal of Bob Zellner in the historical biopic Son of the South, before starring in the action film The Collective.
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Lucas Daniel Till was born on August 10,1990, in Fort Hood, Texas.
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Lucas Till is the son of chemist Dana Lyn and John Mark Till, a colonel in the Army.
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Lucas Till spent most of his childhood living in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Lucas Till's family noticed he enjoyed impersonating voices and characters.
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Lucas Till began booking almost immediately in print, local, regional, and national commercials.
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In 2003, Till made his first film collaboration in the short film The Lovesong of Edwerd J Robble, in the role of Michael.
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In 2004, Lucas Till played the role of Jay in the horror film Lightning Bug which filmed in Fairview, Alabama, and, later, he participated in the short film Pee Shy, playing Chad.
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In 2008, Lucas Till starred as Jensen in Gregg Bishop's horror-comedy Dance of the Dead which was hand-picked by director Sam Raimi for distribution through Lions Gate Entertainment and Ghost House Pictures.
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Lucas Till was invited to participate in the fifth season of the American television series House in the episode titled "Joy to the World" in the role of Simon, a high school student who has a romantic relationship with his schoolmate, but due to their social differences, they cannot be together.
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Three weeks before graduating from high school, Lucas Till auditioned for Hannah Montana: The Movie and landed the role of Travis Brody, a young cowboy and Miley's friend who ends up becoming her love interest.
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Lucas Till participated in the episodes "Scotophobia" and "Hydrophobia" of the horror web series Fear Clinic playing the character of Brett, a young man suffering from hydrophobia.
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Lucas Till starred in the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" as her next-door neighbour and love interest.
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Lucas Till's character was Justin, a young boy with some bad attitudes.
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In early 2010, Lucas Till played the role of a Russian agent in the film The Spy Next Door starring Jackie Chan.
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Lucas Till returned to collaborate in the co-production in an independent science fiction adventure film directed by Jason Trost and in which he plays Jack, a young man on vacation in Asia who realizes that his horrible dreams are becoming a reality and that reality is turning into a nightmare.
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In 2012, Lucas Till returned to work in dramas by participating in the movie Dark Hearts in the role of Sam, a young man who travels to the city to spend time with his older brother and thus escape problems at home.
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Lucas Till next worked with Nicole Kidman on the 2013 film Stoker, in which he played a bragging young man named Chris Pitts.
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Lucas Till was part of the starring cast in the direct-to-DVD film Crush as Scott Norris, a star member of the high school soccer team who despite having a knee injury caused by a blow in a game runs every morning.
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Lucas Till participated with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford in the film Paranoia as Kevin, friend and co-worker of Adam.
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Lucas Till was a co-producer on the horror and suspense film My Eleventh.
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In 2015, Lucas Till participated in the dramatic film Bravetown, originally titled Strings, playing the role of Josh Harvest a DJ in his early and formative stage, and in the suspense movie The Curse of Downers Grove in the role of Bobby.
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Paramount Animation together with Nickelodeon Movies produced the comedy and adventure film titled Monster Trucks, directed by Blue Sky Studios founder Chris Wedge in which Lucas Till starred as Tripp.
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Lucas Till participated in the one-hour animated television special titled Michael Jackson's Halloween which premiered on CBS in October 2017 lending his voice to the character of Vincent, a young store clerk who wants to be DJ.
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CBS renewed MacGyver in which Lucas Till played the starring role, continuing his role in the second, third and fourth seasons.
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Lucas Till renewed his contract in 2020 to continue his leading role in the fifth season of MacGyver.
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Lucas Till has said in interviews that he was the subject of verbal abuse and body shaming from the showrunner of MacGyver, Peter Lenkov.
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Lucas Till reported being suicidal in the first year of the filming of MacGyver due to Lenkov's abuse.
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Lucas Till played Bob Zellner, the grandson of a member of the Ku Klux Klan, who joins the civil rights movement in the United States in the film Son of the South, based on Zellner's autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek.
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In March 2024, Lucas Till was cast as Garret Van Ness in the upcoming Netflix western series The Abandons, starring opposite Gillian Anderson and Nick Robinson.